Crowds along the streets for the passage of the Tpur de France in Alessandria (photo Ilaria Cutuli))
ALEXANDRIA – The winner was the one who managed to bring the Tour de France on the roads of the province e has garnered enthusiastic comments from commentators around the world.
There are many fans of Tadej Pogacarsome even with placards to cheer him on, but the Slovenian, the big favourite, after arriving in Turin had to take off the yellow jersey to pass it to Richard Carapaz, the first Ecuadorian rider to wear it. It was decisive for him to have remained among the first after the fall in the final split the group. ‘Working’ to bring Carapaz among the first also the Italian champion Alberto Bettiol
It was the day of ‘first times’: never the Tour in Piedmont, and in Tortona and Alessandria in 111 editions, never an Eritrean in triumph. Biniam won the sprint in Turin, in Corso Galileo Ferraris Girmay of the Intermarché Wanty, ahead of Gaviria and De Lie.
Alessandria and Marengo’s farewell to the Tour de France
In the other sprint of the day, the intermediate sprint in Alessandria, in the Gamondio stand, the success of Casper Pedersendella Soudal Quickstep
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