Tour de France 2023, Pello Bilbao wins in Issoire. Vingegaard still in the yellow jersey – Corriere.it

On a terrifyingly hot day (almost 40 degrees in the final stretch), with nine very tough stages behind them, instead of taking it easy, the riders of the Tour de France 110 fought fiercely in the tenth fraction in the heart of Auvergne. He thought about winning the Clermont-Ferrand Issoire Skin Bilbaoa 33-year-old Basque of great talent (two stages won in the Giro) but often discontinuous.

Success (in a very tight sprint over Zimmermann and O’Connor) arrived after almost four hours of attacks and counterattacks on a very tormented track and with a race that started at breakneck speed behind the push of Pogacar and Vingegaard who teased each other in the first thirty kilometers by showing the green mice to the poor sprinters, who arrived seriously late. Bilbao, who races with Bahrain-Victorius, dedicated the success to Gino Maderthe teammate who died last June after a terrible fall in the Tour of Switzerland.

Thanks to his victorya Spaniard returns to conquer a stage of the Tour almost five years (it was 21 July 2018) from the first place of Omar Fraile in Mende. Now the match remains lit in the hands of the Azzurri: four years after Nibali’s triumph in Val Thorens, among the six Azzurri survivors in the running, there is no one who can replace him in this edition.