{"id":18326,"date":"2023-03-09T05:11:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/ganna-survives-tirreno-adriatico-echelons-but-fears-climb-in-apennine-mountains\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T05:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T05:11:26","slug":"ganna-survives-tirreno-adriatico-echelons-but-fears-climb-in-apennine-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/ganna-survives-tirreno-adriatico-echelons-but-fears-climb-in-apennine-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganna survives Tirreno-Adriatico echelons but fears climb in Apennine mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Filippo Ganna managed to fight his way up to the front echelon during the finale of stage 3 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tirreno-adriatico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tirreno-Adriatico<\/a> and so defend his leader\u2019s blue jersey. However with the Italian race entering the Apennines on Thursday, with ever more climbing to come, the Ineos Grenadiers rider is unsure how long he can use his power to stay with the better climbers and his nearest overall rivals. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ganna missed the front echelon when Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and a number of other riders joined an attack after apparently taking the wrong line through a roundabout. However he used his power and pursuit skills to surge across the growing gap and join the move.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest paywall\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He looked set to gain time on some rivals but then a change in direction turned the sidewind into a headwind and the peloton compacted, leaving it to a sprint with Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen teaming up to give Alpecin-Deceuninck their first win of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI was in the wrong place and too far back,\u201d Ganna admitted after pulling on the leader\u2019s blue jersey for another day. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI feel good but I\u2019m still struggling to work out distances in the peloton after my eye operation during the winter. When the split occurred, I made the mistake of being too far back and I went on the wrong side of a roundabout and lost my teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI was behind but managed to get back up to the front echelon. To be honest, I don\u2019t know how I did it. I\u2019m happy to still have the jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Italian leads Lennard K\u00e4mna (Bora-Hansgrohe) by 28 seconds, with teammate Magnus Sheffield third at 30 seconds and Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) fourth at 34 seconds. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Ganna gained his advantage in Monday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/tirreno-adriatico-2023\/stage-1\/results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11.5km time trial <\/a>but fears he will come under attack on the four steep climbs and finishing circuits that fill the final 51 km of stage 4 to Tortoreto on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He could limit his losses and keep the leader\u2019s jersey but then faces the mountain finish to Sassotetto on Friday and the demanding \u2018walls\u2019 stage on the short climbs of Le Marche around Osimo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be ready for anything but I\u2019m hopeful,\u201d Ganna said of Thursday\u2019s stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThe climb will be harder than riding a pursuit match, that\u2019s for sure. The circuits will be interesting to watch on television, they\u2019ll be less enjoyable to race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Wout van Aert confirmed he will try to survive the four climbs to Tortoreto and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/tirreno-adriatico-echelon-attack-inspires-wout-van-aert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">try to win the stage<\/a> but that did not inspire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/filippo-ganna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ganna<\/a> to think he can do the same or better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI don\u2019t have Van Aert\u2019\u2019s legs,\u201d he said modestly. \u201cI\u2019m living the race stage by stage. I don\u2019t want to put pressure on myself or on the team. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAnd the best scenario for Ganna?\u201d a Flemish journalist asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThat we all take the climb really easy,\u201d he joked, knowing that is not even a remote possibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/ganna-survives-tirreno-adriatico-echelons-but-fears-climb-in-apennine-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filippo Ganna managed to fight his way up to the front echelon during the finale of stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico and so defend his leader\u2019s blue jersey. However with the Italian race entering the Apennines on Thursday, with ever more climbing to come, the Ineos Grenadiers rider is unsure how long he can use his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6804],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}