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09:55 – Ruben Guerrero, Matthew Holmes, Einer Rubio, Ben O’connor and Joe Dombrowski form the group leading the race.
09:42 – At km 7 the peloton is already wide, the stage begins with a 1,681-meter climb to Campo Carlo Magno, with the first mountain count (2nd category). Ruben Guerreiro leads the group with Ben O’Connor, winner of yesterday’s stage.
The parents of the Portuguese João Almeida continue to accompany their son in the Giro and this Thursday they showed that they are already in Stelvio, where the arrival of the stage will be at an altitude of 2,700 m.
09h23 – The stage begins! According to the organization of the race, 135 cyclists left. Giovanni Visconti is not in sight. The cyclist Vini Zabù Brado-KTM was second in the mountain prize, behind the Portuguese Ruben Guerreiro.
09:15 – This Thursday’s stage is about to start!
09h02 – The queen stage promises strong emotions with four mountain counts. If no attacks on the rose are expected in the first two, the same cannot be said at Passo dello Stelvio just 30km from the finish line.
– Stage 18 is scheduled to start at 9:15 am (continental Portugal time).
– There will be 207 km between Pinzolo and Laghi di Cancano. It will be one of the last hypotheses in the Alps for the attack on the leadership of João Almeida, who yesterday he controlled the circulation like a man, reaching the pool of candidates, unable to question the superiority of the Deceuninck-Quick-Step advantage.
“We tried everything to force João Almeida, but the climb was not hard enough and he did not hesitate. We did not give up, because stage 18 will be important”, considered Kelderman, a Sunweb cyclist who is in the 2nd position of the general, 17 seconds of Portuguese.
Also mentioning yesterday that Rubén Guerreiro recovered the blue jersey, remaining today again as mountain leader.
– Today in the 18th stage, the Portuguese, 22 years old, will defend the pink jersey in full ‘Cima Coppi’, the highest point, when passing through Passo dello Stelvio – special category that precedes the arrival in the top of 1st category – at 2,758 meters above sea level.
– Good morning, welcome to another stage of the Vote for Italy. João Almeida continues to lead the Giro for the 15th consecutive day.
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