Giro d'Italia 2023 | Stage 9 | Highlights
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00:00 Big GC day at the Giro d'Italia. 35km individual time trial.
00:05 An opportunity for riders to take time and potentially have to defend against a marauding Remco Evenepoel.
00:12 Theo Gegenhardt, one of the Ineos Grenadiers riding high in the general classification, off three minutes before Geraint Thomas.
00:19 Geraint Thomas getting into his accustomed time trialing style.
00:24 And then Remco Evenepoel. Just eight seconds to make up in the general classification, should he be able to, on Andreas Lecknesund.
00:31 Would give him the Maglia Rosa after the individual time trial.
00:35 At the first of the splits then, Theo Gegenhardt set the best time by one second ahead of Stefan Kung,
00:41 who had hitherto set the best time and was on the hot seat.
00:46 Shortly after that, Geraint Thomas went faster still than Theo Gegenhardt.
00:50 And the early signs were that Remco Evenepoel, through the first checkpoint, was motoring.
00:55 11 seconds up on Geraint Thomas, after a third of the TT.
01:02 Theo Gegenhardt though, towards the finish line, taking the best time from Stefan Kung,
01:08 who faced the bitter disappointment once again of losing out at a Grand Tour individual time trial.
01:13 And Gegenhardt, with the time trial of his life provisionally on the hot seat.
01:18 Then Geraint Thomas, edging out his teammate and compatriot by the slenderest of margins.
01:26 Thomas pushing hard for the line, Theo Gegenhardt watching on.
01:31 And the time at the line, 41.25.
01:34 Thomas then, just about the fastest, with Remco Evenepoel still out on the course.
01:40 And still just going faster than Thomas at the intermediate splits.
01:45 6 kilometers to go for Remco Evenepoel, as the crowd chanted his name.
01:50 And Remco Evenepoel marginally, marginally slower than Geraint Thomas, with 6 kilometers to go.
01:56 Into the final kilometer then.
01:58 And Remco Evenepoel, just about beating the time of Geraint Thomas by a fraction of a second,
02:04 in the closest individual time trial you could possibly imagine.
02:12 I wasn't feeling too well, so not the best result.
02:16 But yeah, it's another stage win, so that's very nice.
02:19 But I think it was not my best time trial that I ever did.
02:23 So yeah, I think we should just be happy that we took the stage win again.
02:28 And that we have the pink jersey, but I think it was a very tight one today.
02:32 So even at not his best, Remco Evenepoel better than the rest.
02:36 But the margin was very slight in the end.
02:38 One second to Geraint Thomas, two seconds to Theo Gegenhardt.
02:42 And Stefan Küng, the bitter disappointment of being dropped out of the podium places down in fourth.
02:47 That was enough to give Remco Evenepoel the Maglia Rosa by a healthy margin as well.
02:52 45 seconds to Geraint Thomas, Primoz Roglic at 47 seconds.
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