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Triplet Demare, the Giro d'Italia speaks French

2022-05-20T20:51:39.573Z


After Messina and Scalea it happened in Cuneo. Lopez is always in pink (ANSA)


Arnaud Demare confirms himself as the best sprinter of the 105 / o Giro d'Italia cycling and takes his third victory - strictly in the sprint - after those concluded in Messina and Scalea (Cosenza), won consecutively.

In Cuneo the Frenchman consolidated his leadership in the points classification, which allowed him to show the cyclamen jersey, preceding the German Phil Bauhaus, second, and the veteran among the jet men, the English Mark Cavendish.

The sprinter from the Isle of Man so far consoles himself with the triumph in one of the three arrivals in Hungary, at the start of the Giro.

The good times are long gone.

"At a certain point I began to doubt whether or not to resume the escape, because some of my teammates had already given everything - the words of Demare, after the very fast arrival in Cuneo -.

actually cooked.

Only 10 kilometers from the finish I started to really believe it, but I had reached the limit of my abilities.

It's great to win again: three wins are a lot of haul.

I learned, during the stage, of my compatriot Romain Bardet's retirement, I think it's a shame.

He was in great shape, he had made a lot of sacrifices to be here at the top. "

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Triplet Demare, race speaks French © ANSA

Trio of Demare aside, in fact, the news of the day is linked to the French with very different ambitions, Bardet in fact, forced to raise the white flag by an intestinal virus, just as he occupied the top positions of the general classification, at 14 "from the pink jersey that remains glued to the shoulders of the Spaniard Juan Pedro Lopez Perez. The leader of this edition of the pink race, barring surprises, will arrive at the foot of the Alps to play his chances, but will have to grit his teeth to keep the few seconds that they separate above all from the Portuguese Joao Almeida and from the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz, who has only one goal: the triumph in Verona. "In the first part of the race, including the Colle di Nava, we didn't go very fast.

The second part, on the other hand, was very hard, also due to the heat.

Tomorrow will be a very different stage, with many climbs, including that of Superga, which I faced in the Milan-Turin.

I don't know what will happen, but I will give everything to keep the pink jersey ", the words of Lopez Perez. Today's stage lived on the escape that definitely took off on Colle di Nava, where Mirco Maestri, the Frenchman Nicolas Prodhomme, the Dutch Pascal Eenkhoorn and Julius Van den Berg, got rid of Filippo Tagliani and kept the rest of the platoon in check until a few hundred meters from the end which, however, in the end swallowed the treads, generating the sprint won by Demare. Tomorrow the Giro da Santena (Turin) will move to the Piedmontese capital: the runners will have to face 147 kilometers and a difference in height of 3,000 meters.

with the Rivarolo Canavese (Turin) -Cogne (Aosta) and an arrival at well over 1,500 meters above sea level, after two other notable climbs.

Not a walk.

Source: ansa

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