now you find the rebel spirit again – Corriere.it

Words tell a truth that the face denies. The super happy with my performance, the numbers (of the on-board computer, ed) are what we expected to Goofy Ganna hissed through gritted teeth with one eye dodging the camera is perplexing. Pippo’s philosophy known since San Remo (The second in cycling only the first of the losers), the blow suffered by Evenepoel hard to digest. It is striking that the Hour record holder, the strongest long distance rider in the world (1.93m for 82 kilos), lost 12″ in 10′ to the Belgian (1.71 for 62 kilos) in the flat first part, ideal for its devastating power by Goofy. In spite of colleagues who hide sensitive data, the key to victory is explained by Remco himself: Thanks to hard work in the gym, I have a kilo of muscles more than last year and this has allowed me to mount a 60-tooth chainring in front . To push Evenepoel’s 60×14 on the flat at 100 pedal strokes per minute (Ganna and Roglic stopped at 58) in those two sweaty legs, Remco hides a supernatural strength.

Ganna, slowly skipped after the time trial

The 22” delay collected by Ganna at the finish line upset his Giro and the first part of the season. The project I take the shirt and keep it up to the skipped Gran Sasso, a less of his coups on Tuesday, in the stage that arrives in Irpinia (the one where Evenepoel would like to give up the pink jersey), unlikely given that Pippo will already be at full service for the award-winning couple Geoghegan Hart (4)-Thomas (9) who managed more than excellently yesterday. At this point on the horizon of the Piedmontese to balance the balance there is only one possible victory in the time trial (extra flat) of Cesena. But with Evenepoel so strong and with a possible growing Roglic, even dominating those 35 kilometers after seven stages spent breaking his back for the captains will be complicated.

And the philosophy of a totally gregarious Giro, especially in the last ten very hard days (the first 100 km to catch the wind, uphill to float to the finish line) it could have been fine two or three years ago, but today it sure makes him suffer. Perhaps Pippo should recover the free and rebellious spirit of the Camigliatello Silano stage in 2020, when he went on an uphill breakaway with four colleagues and crashed them six kilometers from the finish. However, one of his captains, Tao Geoghegan, conquered that Giro: by becoming rebellious again, Goofy could regain his freedom (while remaining a faithful follower).