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00:05Welcome to the third stage of Giron X Gen Carta Giovani Nazionale
00:08from Sibari, once among the most important cities of Magna Grecia
00:12to Villa d'Agri di Marsico Vetere in the region of Basilicata
00:16166 km on the menu with 3200 m of elevation
00:21this is the first mountain stage and also the first very test for the GC contenders
00:26here are the images from the signature podium this morning
00:30with the Maglia Rosa Davide Donati
00:33after yesterday's win
00:36all the leaders' jerseys represented at the front at the neutralised start in Sibari
00:53and at 12.23 it's go time and the Jente Festrate of EF Education Evolo is the first attacker of
01:02the day
01:05there was a long and extended battle to get to the breakaway going today as well
01:09as the peloton travelled at a really high speed
01:12after roughly 20 km, a pretty strong four riders' group is in the lead
01:17with Matteo van Uffe, 8th in the GC last year
01:21Jasper Scholfs, Simone Zanini and the Swiss national champion Diego Casagrande
01:26the peloton is 3 minutes down with the Red Bull Boransgrohe rookies pulling in the front
01:32the KOM of the day of Vallico di Campotenese
01:36no big fight for the KOM points
01:39but Matteo van Uffe, of the development team Picnic Postenel
01:43took the comb of the day
01:44a base category climb
01:47now tied with Casper Haugland and Matteo Gialli
01:496 points for him
01:53this is the graphics
01:58and the action continues for the front of the race
02:02peloton is
02:03with almost 2 minutes down with 30 k's to go
02:07goodbye little track future racing
02:10the gap is coming down
02:12the breakaway knows that they still need to survive the last climb
02:15because once at the top there are still 15 km but slightly downhill
02:26Digo Casagrande is dropped on the climb and the rest is kicking off
02:30going uphill towards the intermediate sprint of Vigiano
02:34Van Uffe goes for the bonus second
02:36but it's in the end Scholfs who gets the 3 bonus seconds
02:39Van Uffe 2 and Zanini 1 second
02:44in the peloton Sparfel goes all in and takes the 5 points on the offer
02:49at the intermediate sprint and goes straight
02:52Finn knows he has to follow Sparfel on days like this
02:598.7 k's to go
03:0120 seconds of advantage still
03:04quite fast running to the finish
03:06and the peloton has to go full in
03:07to get the break before it's too late
03:13Simone Zanini giving extra short turns
03:16trying to find collaboration
03:19from the other two riders
03:23and in the meantime the peloton is pulled by Vismalisa bike
03:27in only 5 seconds behind
03:32Zanini looks like that he's leading
03:34but Jasper Scholfs is coming on the left hand side
03:37the Belgian is going to make it
03:38as Zanini can't ride across him
03:40and he's going to be the new race leader as well
03:42and it's the first win in the under 23 ranks for him
03:46what a brilliant breakaway
03:48a 159 km long
03:52and what a thrilling final
03:53this is the top 10 of today's stage
03:56first top 3 finish at the Giro next gen for Simone Zanini
04:00Matteo Van Uffe posted his 4th top 3 finishes this year
04:06Jasper Scholfs leading the overall classification
04:11and Matteo Van Uffe
04:13leader of the Maglia Azzurra
04:17young overall standings on the change
04:19with Mattei Boldirev of UAE team Emirates Gen Z leading now
04:26and Simone Zanini
04:28thanks to his second place
04:30leads the best Italian classification
04:35first of all the emotion of wearing the pink and win the stage
04:39yeah I think I never felt like this
04:41like I give you the interview tomorrow
04:43this morning I said that we all have a big chance
04:46because we are all in crazy good shape
04:50and we started I went into the break
04:54then I said to the guys don't pull too hard
04:56because we burn ourselves with the heat
04:58then the guys came closer from the back
05:00and we know that Red Bull is controlling
05:03but then I said to the guys can we speed up
05:04and we let them suffer also behind
05:06because I felt super super good
05:08then on the climb I still felt strong
05:11I almost felt like I didn't suffer
05:14I don't know what it was
05:16but it was not steep enough to really go
05:19place an attack
05:20so we also made a deal that we stay together
05:23because I need them also on the flat
05:25and then I saw the sprint I watched this morning
05:28that the corner is at 350 from the finish line
05:31so I know second position will be perfect
05:33and then it was all about the legs
05:35and sprint to the finish line
05:37looking at the last kilometers
05:39the last meters you know the peloton was there
05:41the group was there
05:42so how you guys manage this
05:45you know not to lose that little bit seconds
05:48that was very important
05:49no I think the other guys gambled more than me
05:52but maybe they were also suffering
05:54and me I was also suffering
05:55but I just said okay I don't gonna gamble
05:58I just gave everything to the line
06:00and we see what happened
06:01and then I just I think I did most of the work
06:05in the final but yeah crazy
06:08tomorrow you will wear the pink
06:10I mean this is more than a dream we can say
06:14for sure for sure I call yesterday Molly
06:16because he is for sure my all-time legend
06:19and also Tom Stales he helped me out
06:22when I was in difficult times
06:24and Molly was always there
06:26and I think I always can call him
06:28when I need him
06:30and he helped me the most of my whole career
06:34and yeah I just want to say also one thing
06:36that I still think every day about Chico
06:40Congrats!
06:40Thank you!
06:41Do you expect that things today went like that?
06:44Yeah for us personally we wanted to be in the breakaway
06:48first of all to go for the stage
06:51and also to maybe gain some time in the GC
06:55yeah we hope to go with a bigger group
06:58but in the end it was just the four of us
07:01so yeah then we went with the four of us all out towards the finish
07:06Looking at this jersey how much you want to keep it?
07:11Is it your goal for this Giro or you have other goals?
07:14It wasn't at first the real goal but I think it's always nice to wear a jersey
07:20and especially as a climber wearing the climber's jersey
07:25yeah I will do my best to defend it
07:27and we will see where it takes us
07:31Today you guys faced the first climbs of the Giro
07:35not so hard but still you know that able to make a selection in the GC
07:39so what do you think about today?
07:41Yeah I think it was a nice day out
07:44the climbs were also really nice
07:47they didn't suit me super good
07:49I like it a bit more steep
07:51but still yeah it's nice to finally go in the mountain region of Italy again
07:57Thank you!
07:58Grazie!
07:59Simeno first of all I want to start with you
08:01from this huge breakaway almost 150km
08:04how it went and when you take that decision
08:08do you imagine that the race will be going like that?
08:11Of course no okay in the plan of this morning
08:15my manager, my sport director said to me to try of course to
08:20enter inside the breakaway
08:21of course it wasn't so easy because my leg today was not the best
08:26so after the first climb at the beginning I saw a small group goes
08:33say okay why not we can try
08:35I was inside with all the three guys and say okay good accord
08:39we try to keep more gaps as possible
08:42okay not bad results of course
08:46Looking at this tricolore how much is important you know
08:49be the leader of the Italian classification that we know in Italy
08:53it's always special
08:54yeah of course it's super good results
08:57I like it this jersey
08:58but you know pink I think it was better
09:02Looking at tomorrow what do you expect from the stage?
09:05but honestly I don't know
09:06normally it's sprint stage or small group
09:09but we'll see of course the race
09:11at this Giro everything can happen
09:13we know you're an expert of the Giro Next Gen
09:17so we know that you know it's kind of unpredictable
09:20yeah I know I can say that I'm a veteran of this Giro
09:24of course after four years
09:27but so every Giro is difficult
09:29never can say it
09:31you never know what's happened
09:33we'll see
09:34Grazie
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