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Sixty (teeth) in front, eleven (teeth) behind. Almost twelve meters developed with a single pedal stroke. For a human (and many professional cyclists too), press the racing car with which Filippo Ganna won the time trial how to drag a truck: you do not advance an inch.
The 60×11 was the only ratio that allowed Filippo to advance in certain sections without the legs spinning. And that on Sunday it allowed him to fly the eight kilometers between the first and second sets to 70.1 kilometers per hour on average, composed like a dancer on the center line, gracefully bouncing off the protruding holes and sewers, repelling violent sirocco blasts to the sender.
Generator of enormous power, Ganna requires special solutions to be able to bring your engine to everyone. Sunday in the fastest part of the descent has it touched 101.7 kilometers per hour, favored by its 85 kilos. There are those who (the German Denz, the Colombian Restrepo) touched the curves better and were faster. when the road gets less steep than the Piedmontese it turns into a missile. when the rides go to 120, 130, 140 and beyond the minute that others have to crouch motionless on the handlebars while he keeps turning his legs like plungers.
Ganna considered the first man in history capable of breaking down the 4-minute wall in pursuit of the four kilometer track(his world record 4’01”934), turning in a ring at an average of 60 kilometers per hour with a standing start: a feat even for a scooter. By decoding data from your on-board computer, a physiologist could rewrite human limits of maximum power developed, resistance to lactic acid under stress.
On Sunday, Filippo’s challenge to keep the pink jersey is to drag his 92 meters as fast as possible along the 3,720 meters that go from the Porta Aura junction to Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in Agrigento, climbing 195 meters above the level. from the sea with slopes. up to nine percent.
Pippo knows well that after the first ninety seconds (the climb will last seven minutes) his legs will begin to drown in lactic acid, his breath will become short, his lungs will burn. Pippo also knows that the day’s climbers and stormtroopers will launch the attack and that his Captain Geraint Thomas (with at least two wingmates) will have to abandon him to his fate even if he makes false papers to leave him the pink shirt.. For this reason, in the 145 kilometers that precede the Valley of the Temples, blue will save every last drop of energy for the final. Of course, I will lose the jersey anyway tomorrow on the first slopes of Etna, but one more day in pink is too much throat not to try until the end. And if there is someone who can withstand pain but not the sins of gluttony, it is Filippo Ganna.
October 4, 2020 (change October 4, 2020 | 08:30)
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