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Jonas Vingegaard accomplished a first-ever Paris-Good and Tirreno-Adriatico double for Visma-Lease a Bike, celebrating a dominating victory in Italy as Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) received the ultimate stage on the San Benedetto del Tronto seafront.
The ultimate stage was at all times going to be concerning the sprinters and their groups dominated the high-speed last lap after the break was caught. The 154km stage was raced at a brand new document velocity of 47.179 km/h.
Uno-X let a spot go within the last kilometre and Søren Wærenskjold surged in the direction of the end however Lidl-Trek closed down the hole after which Milan produced the velocity and energy to win the dash, beating Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X) and Davide Cimolai (Movistar).
Vingegaard received stage 5 and 6 within the Apennines of Abruzzo and Le Marche and so was in a position to end calmly within the peloton and savour his total victory.
He completed 1:24 forward of Juan Ayuso (UAE Staff Emirates), with Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) third total at 1:52, as Vingegaard lifted the trident winner’s trophy.
Milan hugged teammate Simone Consonni after he went to the entrance within the kilometre to chase down Wærenskjold. It was a workforce victory and a major half was due to Consonni.
“Your final win is at all times probably the most particular however this one is,” Milan stated.
“It was a tough and difficult day. It was a excessive tempo all day. It was spectacular the work the blokes did for me and so I wished to complete this race with one other win.”
“It was actually powerful to catch the Uno-X rider within the final kilometre. For a second I believed he’d make it to the end however my teammate Simone Consonni did a implausible leadout for me. It was spectacular.”
“We knew the start of the stage can be laborious and we didn’t need the break to get a giant hole. There have been tremendous sturdy riders up the highway and so we needed to push rather a lot. That made for the tremendous excessive velocity.”
The way it unfolded
The 154km last stage was at all times going to be concerning the sprinters and the work to ensure it occurred, with the day divided between a loop inland after which 5 14.5km circuits alongside the seafront.
After days of racing within the chilly and rain, with no signal of spring simply but in central Italy, there have been a number of non-starters, together with Daniel Martínez (Bora-Hansgrohe). Mikkel Honoré (EF Training-EasyPost), Max Walscheid (Jayco-AlUla), Aimé De Gendt (Cofidis) and Intermarché-Wanty duo of Biniam Girmay and Dion Smith had been additionally absent from the sign-on and begin grid.
The assaults got here as quickly because the flag was dropped with Ben Healy the primary to maneuver, but once more. He was quickly joined by EF Training-EasyPost teammate Georg Steinhauser, Alessandro De Marchi (Jayco-AlUla), Antonio Tiberi and Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) and Luke Rowe (Ineos Grenadiers), who was celebrating his thirty fourth birthday off the entrance.
The six leaders opened a spot of 1:30 after simply 10 kilometres however then the sprinters’ groups took management and held them at that hole. Alpecin-Deceuninck and Lidl-Trek did a lot of the work on the entrance, with Uno-X additionally serving to in a while.
Tim Merlier and Soudal-Fast Step had been absent up entrance on the rolling roads within the hills, with the Belgian sprinter quickly abandoning the race. Later Josef Černý and Bert Van Lerberghe additionally deserted, leaving simply Julian Alaphilippe and Kasper Asgreen to complete the race.
The ultimate 75.4 kilometres of the stage had been on the San Benedetto del Tronto circuit and after the primary time via the end, the break of six had a lead of simply 25 seconds. The peloton might see them however most well-liked to play cat and mouse and let the six have some high-speed enjoyable off the entrance and sweep up any bonus seconds on the intermediate dash.
The quiet was solely damaged with 20km to go when Richard Carapaz (EF Training-EasyPost) appeared to the touch wheels at velocity and crashed laborious on his shoulder. He was unable to rise up and was pressured to desert the race.
The break survived sufficient to listen to the bell ring out for the ultimate 14.6km lap however the velocity was excessive and the peloton might odor a dash end.
Uno-X Mobility led a lot of the chase, with Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale additionally hitting the entrance with 5 kilometres to go. The ultimate corners with three kilometres to go shuffled the peloton and Uno-X Mobility had been once more on the entrance and with severe intentions.
Wærenskjold dived into the double chicane with a kilometre to go and Kristoff broadly let him go and shouted at him to go solo. Milan was up entrance however with no teammate and there was a second of hesitation.
Thankfully for Milan, his teammate Consonni got here up from behind and produced an enormous effort as if he had been with Milan within the workforce pursuit on the observe. It was sufficient to shut the hole and arrange Milan for the dash.
The Italian had Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Kristoff on his wheel and having fun with his large slipstream however he went down the centre of the highway and easily outpowered them to the road to win his second stage of this 12 months’s Tirreno-Adriatico. The victory additionally secured him the cyclamen factors jersey and maybe a promotion within the Lidl-Trek hierarchy for MIlan-San Remo and the opposite spring Classics.
Behind Vingegaard completed safely within the peloton to additionally have fun Visma-Lease a Bike Paris-Good and Tirreno-Adriatico stage race double victory.
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