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The French put their hearts at peace. La real start with a bang is here today in Tour of Italy, not in the nicoise Walk of the english which the last Tour boasted so much about. In the shadow of the Cathedral of Monreale, after the first of the 3,498 kilometers planned, a photocell will award the fastest blue jersey to the best climber in history. Another 300 meters and the dive to Palermo. Welcome to the chrono chrono in the world: After digesting the two minutes uphill, a descent begins so fast that it requires technical solutions outside the market so that the runners’ legs do not slip. Many favorites will drive a 58 tooth ratio, some (Ineos’s apparently) have been built a 60 tooth crown (imagine an old 33 rpm vinyl) that combined with a 12 (the calculations are carried out by Marco Pinotti, engineer and senior coach) develops 75 kilometers per hour if you can turn your legs at 105 trips per minute. Testing the descent (with the road open to Palermo traffic) in several reached 90 per hour, today it will be close to 100. “I have never seen such a thing – murmurs Pinotti – it will be really fun.”
It will be fun to understand if Filippo Ganna (rainbow jersey and gold bike) will hurt the initial increase (Pinotti says no) and if former Olympic track Geraint Thomas Will handle lactic acid better than Vincenzo Nibali. The two (the bookmakers coincide) divide the forecasts, with the Welshman ahead for what he did in the Tirreno-Adriatico and in the World Time Trial, since from here to Milan there are three time trials and he digests them better than ours Vincenzino. “I’m fine and I expect explosive attacks from the climbers,” the Ineos captain said yesterday, pretending to forget that when he is fit climbers are afraid of him when climbing.
The challenge is also tactical-psychological. Thomas chose to leave on time as a partner today, at 2:36 p.m. (his strategists predict a favorable wind), Vincenzo among the last at 3:57 p.m. for fear that the wind will be against first.
Who can worry them? There is the enigma dell’Astana, which classifies Jakob Fuglsang (“I’m on credit with luck, it’s time to get paid”) who lacks a great lap but also the very young talent Vlasov and the Colombian López (smoked with character and on the move towards other teams , perfect traitor candidate) who was third in the Giro two years ago. Will they step on each other’s feet? And then this Yachts (Simon, not Adam) who in 2018 won three stages, melted like an icicle in the sun when he was competing for the final success but then (in the Vuelta) he learned that in a great race you have to stay hidden and go out alone in the moment. Very good.
Possible surprises? A young man like the Portuguese Joao Almeida (22 years old) who has an experienced team on his side like Deceuninck or Steven Kruijswijk whose pink dreams in 2016 broke against the not-too-fresh wall of snow at the Lamb, but who last year took the Tour podium behind Bernal and Thomas. . On Monday on the slopes of Etna we will know more, in the meantime let’s enjoy it, the craziest time trial in the world.
October 2, 2020 (change October 3, 2020 | 10:38 am)
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