Stage 14 Review<\/strong>: the Aosta valley showed off in early summer hues, a palette of colours and at the finish, views of Monte Rosa, \u201cpink mountain\u201d and one of the highest peaks of the Alps and no crowbar needed to jam in idea that the stage and pink jersey were taken by Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\nA strong breakaway had gone clear but they probably needed a longer route to build up more of an advantage by the final climb, and the move had no opportunists looking to move up the GC. Giulio Ciccone and Einer Rubio again traded attacks, but again they were mowed down by Visma and overhauled by Vingegaard.<\/p>\n
The climb to the Pila ski station did not offer much surprise, although Ben O\u2019Connor did crack early and Davide Piganzoli did another ride to confirm he\u2019s climbing faster than Sep Kuss. Afonso Eulalio was dropped but remains second overall; third placed Felix Gall is out-climbing everyone except Vingegaard while Red Bull pair Jai Hindley and Giulio Pellizari appear to be skirmishing rather than collaborating. Thymen Arensman faded on the climb but limited his losses while pedalling in his serpentine style, his body bending left and right as he advanced up the climb.<\/p>\n
If a leitmotif of this Giro is Vingegaard keeps being where he needs to be, that holds firm. He talked of riding more defensively but he hardly needs to mark rivals when he can put a minute into them almost a minute into them with a late attack on a final climb.<\/p>\n
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One side-story was Jhonatan Narvaez in the break and taking the points jersey by one point from Paul Magnier. This sets up an indirect duel for the final week.<\/p>\n
The Route<\/strong>: a start in Voghera, a trip to Pavia to nod to the start of Milan-Sanremo and then a ride into Milan and laps of 16km circuit on wide roads.<\/p>\nThe Contenders<\/strong>: a sprint finish on the cards. Paul Magnier<\/strong> (Soudal-Quickstep) wins by recent precedent thanks to two stage wins. Jonathan Milan<\/strong> (Lidl-Trek) winning in Milan would sound fitting\u2026 to foreign ears, as it\u2019s Milano to Italians but linguistics aside this finish suits him well.<\/p>\nTobias Lund<\/strong> (Decathlon-CMA CGM) has a great lead-out, likewise Dylan Groenewegen<\/strong> (Unibet-Rose Rockets)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/inrng.com\/medias\/images\/threerings.jpg\") <\/td>\n | Milan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/inrng.com\/medias\/images\/tworings.jpg\") <\/td>\n | Magnier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/inrng.com\/medias\/images\/onering.jpg\") <\/td>\n | Lund, Groenewegen, Van Uden, Plowright<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Weather<\/strong>: sunny and 32\u00b0C.<\/p>\nTV<\/strong>: KM0 is at 1.55pm and the finish is forecast for 5.15pm CEST<\/strong>. Tune in for the sprint finish.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/inrng.com\/medias\/images\/giro2026cartolinamilano.jpg\") <\/p>\n
Postcard from Milan<\/strong>
Is it a stage or a criterium? Cycling is a rural sport and it\u2019s no bad thing for the Giro to exist Italy\u2019s commercial capital and the second largest city by population. Especially as there seems to have been some difficulty between the organisers and the city in recent years. See how \u201cMilan\u201d-Sanremo now starts in Pavia which gets the nod during the stage today too.<\/p>\nAnd yet this feels like a half-stage, an interlude, an exhibition. We\u2019ll get a sprint finish but surely no change on GC. This would be the same if the race had ridden 150km from point to point to, but at least it would have travelled rather than going in circles.<\/p>\n What if the Rome and Milan stages could be reversed along the route? This way have a Rome stage mid-race as the Giro heads past during its lap of Italy at some point during the first two weeks. Crucially alter the Rome stage to make it more lively. The \u201cCity of Seven Hills\u201d could show off the city very well while also providing great sport. It could even help the city by showing off some of the less famous spots and signalling to tourists that there is more than the overcrowded hotspots.<\/p>\n Milan by contrast is flat so today\u2019s stage route could be the template for a final stage. The Tour de France has spiced up the final stage of late but the Giro particularly needs a prize for the sprinter in the third week, or prizes plural otherwise many simply go home. All easier written than done, but that\u2019s the point of a postcard.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it a stage or a criterium? This Sunday\u2019s Giro stage has the feel of a final Sunday but the race has a week left. Stage 14 Review: the Aosta valley showed off in early summer hues, a palette of colours and at the finish, views of Monte Rosa, \u201cpink mountain\u201d and one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244934,"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-244933","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\/244933","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=244933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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