2023-05-11 15:49:35
Tour of Italy
The Dane Mads Pedersen won the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday and thus celebrated a day’s victory in all three Grand Tours. After 162 kilometers with start and finish in Naples, the ex-world champion from 2019 prevailed once morest the rest of the field in the final sprint and relegated the Italian Jonathan Milan and the German Pascal Ackermann to second and third place.
Road bike world champion Remco Evenepoel apparently coped well with the two painful falls of the day before and reached the finish line without losing any time. The Norwegian Andreas Leknessund still wears the pink jersey with a lead of 28 seconds on Evenepoel. The young Belgian star was only brought down by a dog on Wednesday, but then it hit him once more shortly before the finish.
“I have back pain and some big bruises. I have a big black spot on my back made up of blood,” said the 23-year-old. “That’s life, that’s cycling. We have to deal with that. I slept well that night.” On Friday, however, the first mountain finish in Gran Sasso d’Italia at 2,130 meters will show whether the big favorite is actually in full possession of his strength.
Roglic and Thomas with defects
In contrast to the day before, the field was spared spectacular crashes in dry conditions on Thursday. Two escapees were caught by the field with Pedersen, who had already celebrated a day’s victory at the Tour de France and the Vuelta in 2022, around 500 meters from the finish. However, poor road conditions kept causing defects. Time trial Olympic champion Primoz Roglic (Slovenia) and former British tour winner Geraint Thomas were also affected.
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