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Filippo ganna won the first leg of the Tour of Italy 2020. The new time trial world champion won as expected the time trial that was the first part of the pink race, a 15 km section of Monreale in Palermo, covered in 15’24 “.
The Ineos pilot, who thus won the first pink t-shirt as race leader, he beat the Portuguese Joao almeida (Deceuninck), second at 22 seconds, and the Danish Mikkel bjerg (United Arab Emirates), third with the same time.
Excellent performance from Ganna, who covered the stage with an average of almost 60 km per hour. “We managed to express all our values. We started doing well today, we wanted to put in a good performance. From the first intermission at the top of the wall it was full of people shouting my name and I liked that, I must thank the people who received us. Wearing the pink jersey is exciting, it’s a lot of things, especially in the first Giro d’Italia. I want to say goodbye to my region, which yesterday had problems with the weather. I am sure that he will be able to recover, as always ”, are his words after the test.
The Giro immediately lost one of its most anticipated protagonists, the Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez placeholder image, fell on billboards on the road: for him an ambulance and goodbye to racing.
Immediately great proof of Geraint thomas, which was more than 26 seconds behind Simon Yates. The other favorites are far behind, with Nibali more than a minute away, Fuglsang at 1’24 ”.
OMNISPORT | 03-10-2020 16:52
