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00:03 ...for this, Stowman on the front, then comes Ed Turns, then comes Simone Consoni,
00:06 and then, and only then, comes Jonathan Milan in control, but they're all lined up on the wheel
00:11 of the big man, Fernando Gaviria is there, Caleb Ewan, Phil Bauhaus is there, waiting to sprint,
00:16 Lidl Trekno will burn through their resources before anyone dares to move, here comes Ed Turns,
00:21 Simone Consoni lining themselves up for the finish, this is Lidl Treks to lose, the man in the
00:27 Mallea Ciclamino has all the other sprinters on his wheel, waiting patiently, patiently,
00:32 Fernando Gaviria, as he often does, tries to go long, Gaviria hitting the front, forcing Milan to react,
00:38 Oliveira on the wheel of Milan, Milan goes, Milan to the centre, Ani Lekrovski on his wheel,
00:44 but here comes Jonathan Milan, pushing for the line, Milan, he's gonna make it, win number three,
00:49 and the Giro d'Italia, and the rest of them were not even close in the end, a masterful display from
00:55 Jonathan Milan, and a thorough victory at the Giro d'Italia.
00:59 Do you feel sorry for the climbers today?
01:11 You know today, yeah, it's another, again, important stage for us, no, so
01:21 yeah, we feel it yesterday, it was tough, it was a tough day, we tried to recover and today we will try to go
01:26 again for the sprint. But having no climb today, does it mean that you might have more opponents?
01:33 Yeah, yeah, in the end, you know, also with this win it will be a bit tricky, but for sure we'll be a bit
01:41 more open, we will try to control with the breakaway, that not many guys are going,
01:47 so it will be not that much difficult to close it in the end, and yeah, we will try our best like
01:52 we did it until now, yeah, that's for sure. But now I think we can get the race underway, and out
01:58 onto a three and a half kilometer neutralized rollout, and they'll get a sense of how the
02:03 wind is blowing when they leave town, and that'll be interesting. Yeah, they would have been briefed,
02:09 it might be one or two teams with a bit of a plan to maybe try. Be interested in that,
02:14 it's on 284, Cam Jahn 242, and Fiorelli 217, and it's those teams that attack straight away,
02:20 and it's Petrobon. Yes, Petrobon leading, and that's, well there we go, is he going to be in
02:25 the start, is Ballerini going to join them? Oh, he thought about it. What is he doing?
02:30 It's one of, oh, Alaphilippe. You got close at the last sprint, even better today? Yeah, I mean,
02:39 that seems to be the theme for us, just keep trying. And yeah, I think the finish suits us
02:45 well with the lead out we have, and yeah, I expect we can be at the front today. In which way does it
02:52 suit you better? Well, I think it's more technical, I think that helps a lot, it's not such a straight
02:57 run-in like the last days, so positioning and setting up the final earlier is, yeah, more
03:02 important to be in a good position and getting it safely to the finish. In terms of pure speed,
03:09 do you think you have more than Jonathan Milan? No, not at all, I think he's by far the fastest,
03:14 possibly the fastest in the world at the moment, and yeah, it's going to take a really good run
03:19 to beat him, so we'll see if we can try something new today. Fasano, second, following stage to
03:26 Andorra, first. Let's have a listen, Sassi Leclasse. He's like, he's not arguing with that,
03:36 older. And they're one of the big teams that hasn't lost anybody, the whole squad is intact,
03:45 as you said. Sheffield, Navas, the more you think about it, the more frightening it is.
03:50 And the time trial left, so in terms of ambiguous parkour, where teams can be disruptive,
04:02 not thinking about the race, rather than it's just man on man, there's not a lot of that left,
04:07 so most of the terrain is just going to suit Taddei Borgaccia, and whether he's isolated or not,
04:14 it's going to be hard to put him into any difficulty. That is what's going to happen,
04:17 they're dividing the spoils, there's not the body language there from Tonelli,
04:20 no challenge then to Pietro Bon, who rolls through the first bonus sprint of the day,
04:26 and picks up 10 intermediate sprint points to go above Julian Alaphilippe, and into the lead of
04:33 that secondary classification. And about the wrong way, possibly taking a bit too much, oh,
04:39 yeah, no, he's going into the supermarket car park there. Just thought for a minute,
04:46 he spotted somebody new. Yeah, two, looks like it might be. Again, an acknowledgement that they're
04:52 actually taking a few more points away from him in defense of Fiorelli's lead in this classification.
04:57 That does make a lot of tactical sense, and it's fair given what they allowed Pietro Bon to do
05:03 earlier on. As we look at the Autodromo Inzo e Dino Ferrari at Imola, the location of course of
05:10 Julian Alaphilippe's road world wins a few years ago. They were a late replacement, weren't they?
05:18 And this weekend is the Formula One race that was cancelled or postponed last year, wasn't it?
05:23 Because of the floods, they decided they couldn't possibly go ahead, given all the people trying to
05:31 make their way here for Formula One. You can see in all the paddocks, all the bits and pieces,
05:35 all kinds of intention that they might plan a move like this. A change in direction has
05:40 prompted all sorts of action. It's go time for the INEOS Grenadiers. Jonathan Davias,
05:44 Tobias Vossen, Geraint Thomas driving this on. And look how much road they've got to play with
05:48 ahead of them here. So real danger. And the first sign of splits there.
05:52 Holding on to their advantage here, but it's only 24 seconds now to the three riders at the front
05:58 of the race. The question for me is how long will this group ride? It's still a long way to go. 56kms.
06:04 Yeah. Given that cross headwind, they won't be riding much in excess of 50kms an hour. Still an
06:08 hour of racing. About an hour and a quarter, I would say, of racing. Will they be one or two
06:13 runs? Might seem to think, well, let's just knock it off. But right now, let's have a little look
06:18 at this. They're just moving up the outside. Short turn. Through that heat haze, that shimmery
06:23 heat haze, you can see that the front of the peloton doesn't look like it's entirely calmed
06:28 down yet either. No. He's trying to get a little bit of brief shelter behind the motorbike there
06:33 as they swing around it. Back into the wind. 21 seconds they've earned. But flat out, this is
06:43 so we've got about... Oh, it's been a big crash. Oh, Poltico-Meta rider just getting down back
06:49 from under that barrier there. And the rider on the floor, I think it's David Decker. Oh,
06:55 no, it's not actually. It's Ewan Costue, their climber. And that's forced a little bit of a
06:59 split in the bunch as well. Yeah, Nara Kintana was down in that one as well. Got a feeling Ben O'Connor
07:03 might be the wrong side of that. There's a Decathlon AG2R jersey there. Cofidis rider,
07:10 and that's Ruben Fernandez, their climber. And that's Costue just gingerly getting to his feet
07:14 and splits all over their place there. Stowman on the front, then comes Ed Turns, then comes
07:19 Simone Consoni. And then, and only then, comes Jonathan Milan in control. But they're all lined
07:24 up on the wheel of the big man. Fernando Gaviria is there, Caleb Ewan, Phil Bauhaus is there,
07:28 waiting to sprint. Lidl Trekno will burn through their resources before anyone dares to move.
07:34 Here comes Ed Turns, Simone Consoni lining themselves up for the finish. This is Lidl
07:39 Trekno to lose. The man in the Mallea Ciclamino has all the other sprinters on his wheel,
07:44 waiting patiently, patiently. Fernando Gaviria, as he often does, tries to go long. Gaviria hitting
07:50 the front, forcing Milan to react. Oliveira on the wheel of Milan. Milan goes, Milan to the centre.
07:56 Ania Lutkowski on his wheel, but here comes Jonathan Milan, pushing for the line. Milan,
08:00 he's going to make it. Win number three. And the Giro d'Italia, and the rest of them were not even
08:06 close in the end. A masterful display from Jonathan Milan, and a thorough victory at the Giro d'Italia.
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