The Giro takes a break from the terrifying last week

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  • The Italian cyclist Giulio Ciccone, one of the local figures, triumphs alone in a mountain stage without changes in the classification.

  • This Monday the test rests before facing the big day on Tuesday with the Mortirolo and the Valico de Santa Cristina.

If it had not been for the festival produced on Saturday’s stage that ended in Turin, this second week of the Giro would have been to forget, turn off and let’s go, without attacks to score, many kilometers wasted among the favorites in a general that this Sunday will not suffered neither changes, nor shocks, nor anything at all, with Richard Carapaz dressed in pink, and with a final port that looked more like a highway than a road on which to twist bicycles.

Won Giulio Cicconepartner of Juanpe López on the Trek, the cyclist who left Hungary with the stripes of head of the American squad and, after Vincenzo Nibali, the most loved local broker in Italy. But, he immediately had to forget about any dream in the general so he entrusted himself to protect Juanpe until the Andalusian cyclist handed over the ‘pink jersey’ to Carapaz. For this reason, with freedom of movement, he slipped into the good escape of the day, to capture the attention of the RAI cameras, which only focused on him, although, truthfully, behind him there was little or nothing to focus on in a stage where the Catalan corridor of Movistar, Antonio Pedrocrossed the finish line in third position.

The last week

Between the fatigue of Saturday and the prevailing heat in Italy, as in all of Europe, the Giro figures They decided to leave the homework for another day, with more serious ports, and especially because the last week of competition is terrifying, nothing more to add, Your Honor.

The last week starts on Tuesday, because this Monday the race rests and recharges batteries, because the runner who arrives with dropped legs has little to do simply to defend himself.

The route of terror begins on Tuesday with the Mortiroloalthough it is promoted by its more bearable slope, and later with the big prize of the Valico de Santa Cristina, of sad memory for Miguel Induraina five-star trap for any runner who is not at all fine.

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But it is that it does not leave the cave of terror, with the exception of Thursday, throughout the week. On Wednesday come the uploads to Vetriol Y MonterovereFriday ends at Sanctuary of Castelmonte and saturday comes euromillion prize with a boat included in the queen stage, which like everything in this Giro is reserved for the end.

On Saturday, what could be called the ultimate, between roads that ascend the colossi of the Dolomites, perhaps, in terms of landscape, the most beautiful route between mountains that can be faced on a bike. It will be time to Saint Pellegrinothe Pordoi and the amazing ending marbledas beautiful as it is terrifying to decide a Giro that at the moment includes Mikel Landa59 seconds from the ‘pink jersey’ from his fourth position, as one of the favourites, although the cyclist from Alava cannot falter again as he did on Saturday on the way to Turin, on a day of cycling to frame and see repeated by Youtube in case of boredom.



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