The stage, that of the beautiful landscapes of the Siena hills, and some of its gray clay paths, between some lonely cypress and a lot of wind, left from Lake Puccini, on the Tuscan coast, inspiration of La Bohème, and ended in the Rapolano hot springs, where a statue remembers that the liberator Garibaldi recovered there for a few months from the wounds of the battle of Aspromonte, and there, Pelayo Sánchez, an Asturian with an Asturian name, would stay safely in the hot springs, recovering. unredeemed, and unredeemed cyclist who on the final slope was neither a crazy fighter nor a pure fighter, but wise as if instead of just turning 24 years old, and his new age, he were an expert and astute veteran. He did not win a battle, but a stage of the Giro, his debut in the WorldTour, defeating by speed and coldness someone like Julian Alaphilippe, his companion on the run, the French double world champion, a cyclist in decline, who was denied redemption and the food of pride that everyone wished for him. It had been five years, since Pello Bilbao’s two stage victories in Richard Carapaz’s Giro, that a Spaniard had not won a stage in the pink corsa
Tadej Pogacar, who entered with the peloton at 29s, remains the leader with 46s over Geraint Thomas, and will start with the jersey rose on Friday in the very tough time trial in Umbria, 41 kilometers between Foligno and Perugia.
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