A bit of everything: heart, class, tenacity, experience. Julian Alaphilippe’s victory at the finish line in Fano is a reward for the great will of the French champion, who managed to complete a splendid feat: “I believed in it until the end – he says -, during the escape they came at me a thousand thoughts, I thought of my wife and my son, it was a great wish of mine to win a stage in the Giro d’Italia. For me it was a very important success, I hadn’t planned anything.” Alaphilippe’s idea was that “a large breakaway would go away, and I would try to get into it. My teammates managed the first phase of the stage very well, then the opportunity came to go away with Maestri. Which, it must be said , he was very good, this victory is his too.”
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Pink jersey Pogacar was also satisfied with what he defined as “an interesting day, on a route with ups and downs. I liked today’s stage more than yesterday. We did an excellent job as a team, while still controlling the race. Congratulations to Alaphilippe, he had a monumental race, everyone wanted to get into the breakaway and he deserved the victory. He is one of the best in the world.” It would not have made sense for the UAE men to go and fight for the top positions: “We are here for the pink jersey, we need to save our legs for the next few days and this is worth more than anything else”, explained the Slovenian.
