Tour of Italy. Remco Evenepoel is a violent man
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In the first stage of the pink race, the Belgian beat Filippo Ganna by twenty-two seconds, Roglic forty-three and one hundred and sixty riders minutes. He had to make it clear from the start who’s in charge, he did
Remco Evenepoel he is a violent man. He got off the starting platform of Fossacesia marina, first stage of the Giro d’Italia 2023, and started slapping all the other 175 participants in the pink race. She couldn’t do anything else. We need to immediately set the record straight in cycling, especially in time trials. And we need to make them clear right away because the Giro d’Italia is a race in which something always happens that messes it up, sometimes twists it, certainly complicates the plot.
Along the opening nineteen kilometers and six hundred meters, the black-red-yellow of Remco Evenepoel’s Belgian national time trial jersey gradually turned to pink. And one almost thinks that the risk is not seeing in the group the world champion shirt that the Soudal-Quick Step captain started wearing from Australia at the end of September. It will probably happen, it’s been since Gianni Bugno in 1990 that no one has made a clear path. But at least the thought that this could recur thirty-three years later cannot fail to escape. In Italy, lately, it seems to work like this.
Remco Evenepoel put between him and the others at least twenty-two seconds, those that Filippo Ganna scraped together, second at the finish line. João Almeida has forfeited twenty-nine, Tao Geoghegan Hart forty, Stefan Küng e Primoz Roglic forty-three (the big head-to-head, if there will be, will start slowly, perhaps at Lago Laceno on Tuesday), Jay Vine forty-six, Geraint Thomas and Aleksandr Vlasov fifty-five. Eleven of them stayed under one minute, someone got lost along the way.
It’s nice to get lost on a bicycle, it gives you the idea that the world, the whole world, is within arm’s reach. It should be mandatory to get lost on a bicycle at least once, with the night, but not even – there are excellent torches –, as the only limit to pedaling. Even in the Giro d’Italia it’s not bad to get lost, especially during the first stages: it gives the possibility of having more freedom to fill the days with breakaways, and sometimes some arrive at the finish line. A hundred riders can already attempt the big shot tomorrow. Those who have decided instead that day to day life is not for them, that they really want to chase a good position in the general classification must start trying to invent something. But from Monday, he always starts from Monday with good intentions.
Remco Evenepoel was full of good intentions and he took advantage, he started putting them into practice on Saturday. He is not Milanese but he is the same. The Milanese kill on Saturdays, at least for Giorgio Scerbanenco, he who is Belgian tried at the Giro, he didn’t quite make it. At one point, before the two final climbs, it seemed that the gap could be even greater. It’s wide anyway, a collective slap that maybe doesn’t hurt too much, the kilometers were what they were, but it certainly imposes the need to adopt countermeasures.
Meanwhile Remco enjoys the pink jersey and leaves the thoughts to the others. He has another twenty stages ahead of him so as not to get caught by Duke Lamberti.
The order of arrival of the first stage of the Giro d’Italia 2023
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