Tour d'Italie 2023 - Joao Almeida comes home 6th atop the brutal final Tre Cime di Lavaredo
Un an après son premier succès sur les routes du Tour d'Italie, Santiago Buitrago a remis ça sur l'édition 2023 en s'offrant la 19e étape au sommet des Tre Cime di Lavaredo ! Le Colombien de la Bahrain Victorious s'est montré le plus fort d'une échappée composée initialement de quinze coureurs. Déjà trois fois deuxième sur ce Giro, le Canadien Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech) a encore pris la deuxième place ce vendredi (+ 51"), tandis que Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education-EasyPost) a complété le podium (+ 1'46"). Dans la bataille pour le classement général, Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) a de nouveau été dominé par Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) et Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers), le Portugais ayant concédé 20 secondes à ses deux rivaux.
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00:00 So far you've always been satisfied whatever the result was what about today?
00:06 Yeah, also, I mean I get everything ahead so
00:09 That was it. I think wasn't too bad. I was up there until the last seven meters and
00:15 Then they went a little bit faster than me. But overall I think I'm satisfied
00:18 There's still tomorrow, which is really hard day and I'm gonna do my best
00:24 When did you realize that there was no way to attack? I mean it was
00:29 So steep. It's really hard to attack
00:32 You really need to have the legs to go and I didn't have the legs for that. So
00:36 Yeah in the end I was I was up there suffering a little bit
00:41 But I think yeah stage 19 is pretty normal. So
00:44 Let's finish it off tomorrow
00:47 One minute to make up is it impossible? It's not impossible. But you know until it happens. It's
00:56 Yeah, let's let's give it everything I have and we see but overall I'm gonna be happy anyway, thank you. Thank you
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