TORINO – The surprises continue at Tour de France 2024. The first sprint, at the finish line in Corso Galileo Ferraris a Torinoshe in fact went to Biniam Girmay, good at putting the team’s excellent work into practice in the last two kilometres, after a fall at -3 had split the group and cut off some sprinters, including the big favorite Jasper Philipsen. The Eritrean managed to anticipate Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) and Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny), con Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) 4th who had tried to start first. 8th place for David Ballerini (Astana Qazaqstan), who takes the place of a Cavendish who was left behind. For the sum of the placings, Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) flies in the yellow jersey, with Pogačar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel willingly leaving the burden of the symbol of primacy to the Ecuadorian.
THE RACE – Long stage, the longest with its 230.8 km, and rather soporific the one staged from Piacenza to Turin. The first hour is faced at 30 km/h average, no one breaks away, except the green jersey Jonas Abrahamsen and Johannes Kulset (Uno-X) who remain in the vanguard for a handful of kilometers, before getting up (or rather stopping) and being reabsorbed.
Abrahamsen still takes the Tortona GPM, dedicated to Fausto Coppi, while Matteo Sobrero he passed first in the Barbaresco one, a few steps from his house and his vineyards, with all his friends and family cheering him on. About 65 km from the finish line came the only real attack of the day, that of Fabian Grellier (TotalEnergies), which earned him the recognition of most combative of the day, before being caught 30 km from the finish line.
A puncture 6 km from the finish cut him out of contention Mathieu Van der Poel, Philipsen’s last man, while a crash in the center of the group at -3 (the neutralization today was at -5) broke up the peloton and opened the way for Intermarché and Lidl-Trek, who guided Girmay and Pedersen to perfection. He wins the Eritrean and it’s history, because he is the first black African to win a stage in the Tour de France.
General ranking
1. Richard Carapaz (EF education-EasyPost) in 15h20’18”
2. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) st
3. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) st
4. Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) s.t.
5. Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich PostNL) +06″
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