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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-l] | Giro d'Italia: Stage 11 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | |  | T. Dumoulin |  | T. Dumoulin |  | M. Kudus |  | S. Oomen |
Bad news for Jumbo as Laurens De Plus, 3rd in the overall classification, did not start today's stage due to a sever sinusitis. He started feeling sick a couple of days ago and his wealth worsened to the point where he was unable to continue racing. A big blow for him as well as Roglic, who seems himself left without his main liutenant.
As opposed to the previous days, today both UAE and Quick Step set up their own trains instead of just following the Jumbo one. Not only did they put their sprinters in better positions, but as Consonni was fading off from the front, after he had finished his work, he managed to block Roosen and Van Poppel and take them out of the sprint
It was once again Gaviria versus Holdeg for the stage win, with Gaviria claiming his third stage win and the most clear so far. A Giro to remember for the Colombian
Stage | 1. |  | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 3h53'21 | | 2. | | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 3. |  | Jakub Mareczko | CCC Team | s.t. | | 4. | | Niccolo Bonifazio | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 5. |  | Cees Bol | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 6. |  | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 7. |  | Nacer Bouhanni | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 8. |  | John Degenkolb | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 9. | | Timo Roosen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 10. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 11. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 12. |  | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 13. |  | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 14. | | Marcel Kittel | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 15. | | Arvid De Kleijn | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 38h43'03 | | 2. |  | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 3'56 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 4'00 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'49 | | 6. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 5'14 | | 7. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'16 | | 8. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'55 | | 9. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'11 | | 10. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 6'46 | | 11. |  | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 7'28 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 7'41 | | 13. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 8'11 | | 14. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | + 9'20 | | 15. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 9'55 |
| | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 115 | |  | Merhawi Kudus | Astana Pro Team | 53 | | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | 38h47'03 |  | | Team Jumbo-Visma | | 116h25'03 |
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Posted on 11-04-2020 17:53
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-l] | Giro d'Italia: Stage 12 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | T. Dumoulin | | M. Kudus | | S. Oomen |
Some changes in Jumbo's train today as it's once again the only train at the front of the pack as we are about to reach the finish line. It's Roglic who is the last man standing before Roosen does the launch for Van Poppel.
Van Poppel did manage a better sprint than in the previous stages, but there is no stopping Fernando Gaviria at the moment. Fourth stage win in a row for the Colombian and we finally someone other than Dumoulin receiving the purple jersey as the UAE rider is the new leader of the classification
Stage | 1. | | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 4h57'15 | | 2. | | John Degenkolb | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 3. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 4. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 5. | | Jakub Mareczko | CCC Team | s.t. | | 6. | | Timo Roosen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 7. | | Marcel Kittel | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 8. | | Cees Bol | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 9. | | Nacer Bouhanni | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 10. | | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 11. | | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 12. | | Niccolo Bonifazio | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 13. |  | Dion Smith | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 14. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 15. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 43h40'18 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 3'56 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 4'00 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'49 | | 6. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 5'14 | | 7. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'16 | | 8. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'55 | | 9. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'11 | | 10. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 6'46 | | 11. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 7'28 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 7'41 | | 13. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 8'11 | | 14. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | + 9'20 | | 15. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 9'55 |
| | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 118 | | | Merhawi Kudus | Astana Pro Team | 53 | | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | 43h44'18 | | | Team Jumbo-Visma | | 131h16'48 |
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Posted on 11-04-2020 18:00
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-l] | Giro d'Italia: Stage 13 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | F. Gaviria | | M. Kudus | | S. Oomen |
After four days for the sprinters, we go back to more challenging stages that could shake things off in the GC.
Unlucky stage 13 strikes as there was a major crash in the pack on the downhill from the category 1 climb. A few riders were not able to get back on their bikes. Among them, Pinot, Viviani and Kittel
With a stage win already in his bag, Kudus seems to have seriously turn his attention towards the blue jersey as he managed to add 21 more points to his tally today.
Despite being very large, the breakaway did not make it to the finish line today. On the last climb of the day, Carapaz launched a very strong attack from the favorites group and he managed to keep his lead with some amazing descending skills to take the stage win
The biggest story in the general classification today was that Sam Oomen had an off day and lost about 2 and a half minutes today which saw him losing his fourth place in the rankings
Stage | 1. |  | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | 6h08'19 | | 2. | | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 3. | | Matteo Trentin | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 5. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 7. | | Adam Yates | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 8. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 9. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 11. | | Sonny Colbrelli | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 12. | | Nacer Bouhanni | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 13. | | John Degenkolb | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 14. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 15. | | Timo Roosen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 49h48'37 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 3'56 | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'49 | | 5. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 5'14 | | 6. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'16 | | 7. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'55 | | 8. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'11 | | 9. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'26 | | 10. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 6'46 | | 11. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 7'41 | | 12. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 8'45 | | 13. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 11'12 | | 14. | | Diego Ulissi | Bahrain - Merida | + 11'36 | | 15. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11'46 |
| | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 118 | | | Merhawi Kudus | Astana Pro Team | 74 | | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | 49h53'51 | |  | Bahrain - Merida | | 149h44'57 |
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Posted on 11-04-2020 18:16
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-l] | Giro d'Italia: Stage 14 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | F. Gaviria | | M. Kudus | | D. F. Martinez |
Plenty of climbs on today's route so Kudus was bound to be present in the breakaway. But so were other climbers, who were undeniable stronger than him. The Astana rider managed to add 24 more points to his tally, but it was nothing to Masnada's 92 and Soler's 93 points. Masnada would move into the blue jersey at the end of the day, ending the Eritrean's reign
While 3 of the last survivors of the breakaway were fighting for the stage win, behind them, in the favorites group, Roglic attacked as the summit was approaching. He managed to get a gap and continue riding on the downhill to maximum advantage of 40 seconds over his rivals, but with the last climb being quite far from the finish line, once the flat was reached it was game over for the Slovenian.
At the front of the race, Soler attacked Masnada and Reichenbach at the top of the climb and unlike Roglic he managed to keep his advantage to claim Mitchelton's first stage win of the race. The Spaniard can happily go back to work for Quintana and Nibali, unless this victory has awakened some personal ambitions in him. His GC is over (over 21 minutes behind Dumoulin), but the blue jersey could very well be in his reach
Stage | 1. |  | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | 6h46'20 | | 2. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 3. |  | Sébastien Reichenbach | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 41 | | 5. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 6. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 7. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 8. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 9. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 11. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 13. |  | Dylan Teuns | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 14. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 15. | | Mario González Salas | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 56h35'38 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 3'56 | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'49 | | 5. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 5'14 | | 6. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'16 | | 7. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'55 | | 8. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'11 | | 9. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'26 | | 10. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 7'36 | | 11. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 7'41 | | 12. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 9'35 | | 13. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 12'07 | | 14. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 12'21 | | 15. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | + 14'15 |
| | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 118 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 126 | | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | 56h40'52 | | | Bahrain - Merida | | 170h06'50 |
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Posted on 11-04-2020 22:02
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This Giro is giving you some fireworks for sure
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Posted on 12-04-2020 15:00
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-l] | Giro d'Italia: Stage 15 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | F. Gaviria | | F. Masnada | | D. F. Martinez |
First day for Masnada in the blue jersey and he did no disappoint with another breakaway presence and another 93 points added to his total. By the end of the day he would have more than 100 points in front of second place, Kudus. Surely the fight seems to be over already.
On the first category 1 climb of the day, Masnada attacked for the points and got away from the other escapees. He was joined by 4 more riders. 2 from Ineos (Sosa and Elissonde) and 2 from Bora (Schachmann and Henao). Sosa would attack at the foot of the last climb to get away from the others and never be caught again as he claimed his second stage win of the race
More than 8 minutes behind Sosa, we had a fight for the GC, where Lopez and Yates had attacked Dumoulin and Roglic, but ended up empty handed in the end as the first two riders in the GC managed to get back to them on the downhill.
One jersey wearer would change today though and that will be the one of the white jersey. While Oomen was strong enough to hang on to Dumoulin's group, Martinez was not and ended up losing over one minute and the lead in the youth classification.
Stage | 1. | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team INEOS | 5h50'53 | | 2. | | Sebastián Henao | BORA - hansgrohe | + 51 | | 3. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 3'22 | | 4. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | + 4'54 | | 5. |  | Leopold König | CCC Team | + 7'28 | | 6. | | Kenny Elissonde | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 7. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 8. |  | Benjamin King | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 9. |  | Niklas Eg | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 10. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 8'25 | | 11. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 12. | | Tony Gallopin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 13. | | Gregor Mühlberger | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 14. | | Sergio Andres Higuita | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 15. | | Hernando Bohórquez | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 62h34'56 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 3'56 | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'49 | | 5. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'16 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'55 | | 7. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'11 | | 8. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'26 | | 9. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 6'31 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 8'58 | | 11. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 10'01 | | 12. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 11'29 | | 13. | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team INEOS | + 11'59 | | 14. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 12'07 | | 15. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 13'21 |
| | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 118 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 219 | | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | 62h41'22 | | | Team INEOS | | 187h59'22 |
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Posted on 12-04-2020 15:04
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-l] | Giro d'Italia: Stage 16 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/wbBgJno.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | F. Gaviria | | F. Masnada | | S. Oomen |
Today was a day for the breakaway and it was decided by a sprint between the strongest 11 riders of a rather large breakaway group. Roosen was on paper the fastest sprinter in the group and he did not disappoint as he was first across the finish line to bring Jumbo their second stage win of the race.
Stage | 1. | | Timo Roosen | Team Jumbo-Visma | 4h56'24 | | 2. | | Valerio Agnoli | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | s.t. | | 3. | | Ruben Fernandez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 4. | | Mikel Alonso | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. | | 5. | | Liam Bertazzo | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | s.t. | | 6. | | Davide Villella | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 7. | | Merhawi Kudus | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 8. | | Antonio Nibali | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 9. |  | Jack Haig | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 10. | | Tony Gallopin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 11. | | Rodrigo Contreras | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Sébastien Reichenbach | Groupama - FDJ | + 40 | | 13. | | Rudy Molard | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 14. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 15. | | Mathias Frank | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 67h33'00 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 3'56 | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'49 | | 5. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'16 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 5'55 | | 7. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'11 | | 8. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'26 | | 9. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 6'31 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 8'58 | | 11. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 10'01 | | 12. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 11'29 | | 13. | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team INEOS | + 11'59 | | 14. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 12'07 | | 15. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 13'21 |
| | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 118 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 219 | | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | 67h39'26 | | | Team INEOS | | 202h53'34 |
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Posted on 12-04-2020 15:11
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| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | F. Gaviria | | F. Masnada | | S. Oomen |
A 33 kilometers mountain time - trial on today's menu in Italy. Some interesting gaps could be created between the main contenders in the general classification today.
Lopez might have lost his hopes for the pink jersey in the previous time - trial, but today, just like the Empire, he is set to strike back. He wasn't slow at the intermediate check point, but he wasn't one of the fastest either. Still, at the top of the climb he had the best time and then went on to set the best one at the finish as well.
Roglic was ahead of Lopez at the intermediate check point, but his climbing skills are no match to Lopez' natural ones as he stopped the clock at the finish line 1 minute and 3 seconds slower than the Lotto rider
Dumoulin was ahead of both Roglic and Lopez at the intermediate check point but he faded on the climb and ended up losing time to both of them at the finish line. 12 seconds to Roglic and 1 minute and 15 seconds to Lopez. First sign of weakness for Dumoulin in this race. He's still the main favorite, but today showed that he is not unbreakable
Stage | 1. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | 59'24 | | 2. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11 | | 3. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 57 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 58 | | 5. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'03 | | 6. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 1'09 | | 7. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | + 1'15 | | 8. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 1'17 | | 9. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'51 | | 10. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 1'55 | | 11. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 12. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 1'56 | | 13. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 2'00 | | 14. | | Adam Yates | Lotto Soudal | + 2'01 | | 15. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2'02 |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 68h33'39 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'10 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 2'41 | | 4. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 4'12 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'43 | | 6. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'09 | | 7. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 6'13 | | 8. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 6'36 | | 9. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'51 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 9'48 | | 11. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 10'46 | | 12. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 12'09 | | 13. | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team INEOS | + 13'00 | | 14. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 14'01 | | 15. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 14'07 |
| | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 126 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 219 | | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | 68h39'48 | | | Team INEOS | | 205h57'57 |
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Posted on 13-04-2020 16:24
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| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | T. Dumoulin | | F. Masnada | | S. Oomen |
Today's stage profile was quite inviting for a breakaway and Timo Roosen was set to take on a new stage opportunity. But the pack kept the escapees on a very short leash and eventually caught them. Perhaps this was due to the fact that Masnada, now 15th in the overall rankings, was part of the breakaway.
The Austrian Champion, Patrick Konrad attacked on the last hill of the day and got away from what was left form the pack to claim the stage win. Behind him, Primoz Roglic finished second in the sprint of the pink jersey group and is now the new purple jersey wearer.
Stage | 1. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | 5h34'30 | | 2. | | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 3. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 4. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6. | | Diego Ulissi | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 7. | | Niki Terpstra | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 8. | | Cees Bol | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 9. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 10. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 11. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Matteo Trentin | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. | | 13. | | Adam Yates | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 14. | | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 15. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 74h08'09 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'06 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 2'41 | | 4. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 4'12 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'43 | | 6. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'09 | | 7. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 6'13 | | 8. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 6'36 | | 9. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 6'51 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 9'48 | | 11. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 10'46 | | 12. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 12'09 | | 13. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 14'04 | | 14. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 15'22 | | 15. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 16'00 |
| | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | 142 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 233 | | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | 74h14'18 | | | Team INEOS | | 222h41'27 |
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Not sure how many stages are left to take back time on, but I have to say, it looks like Dumoulin is losing hold of his lead. Roglic has a chance imo, so best of luck in the final stages.
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| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | P. Roglic | | F. Masnada | | S. Oomen |
We are into the last two mountain stages of this year's Giro d'Italia, where everything will be decided. Dumoulin has about one minute advantage over Roglic in the general classification. Lopez isn't far behind under, at less than 3 minutes and he is the best climber of them so it's still anybody's game.
Lopez didn't wait for long and attacked soon after the last climb of the day was reached. He was joined by quite an impressive group with Quintana, Carapaz, S. Yates, Martinez, Poels, Oomen and Thomas
The pink jersey did not seem too bother about this attack and chose to ride at his own pace. Roglic, Nibali, Buchmann and Ciccone were with him. It was a good decision by Dumoulin as eventually the two groups united
The two groups united for a while only to be torn apart once again by an attack from Lopez. The Colombian attacked to catch and overtake the last breakaway survivor, Mühlberger and take the stage win
Lopez won almost one minute on the road to Dumoulin and Roglic due to that attack and now the first 3 riders in the GC are separated only by 1 minute and 35 seconds. Roglic out sprinted Dumoulin for the third place in the stage and looks in a very good position to actually reach Rome in the purple jersey. Sam Oomen lost 40 seconds to Martinez and the white jersey with it as well
Stage | 1. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | 6h05'40 | | 2. | | Gregor Mühlberger | BORA - hansgrohe | + 24 | | 3. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 56 | | 4. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 5. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 6. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 7. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 1'21 | | 8. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 9. | | Diego Ulissi | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 10. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 11. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 1'40 | | 12. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 13. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 14. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 2'01 | | 15. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 2'18 |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 80h14'45 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'02 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 1'35 | | 4. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 4'12 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'43 | | 6. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 6'38 | | 7. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 7'01 | | 8. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 7'14 | | 9. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 7'35 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 11'10 | | 11. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 12'22 | | 12. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 12'34 | | 13. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 16'41 | | 14. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 17'50 | | 15. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 18'54 |
| | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | 152 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 280 | | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | 80h21'23 | | | Team INEOS | | 241h06'03 |
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Posted on 13-04-2020 16:38
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valverde321 wrote:
Not sure how many stages are left to take back time on, but I have to say, it looks like Dumoulin is losing hold of his lead. Roglic has a chance imo, so best of luck in the final stages.
Thanks. Only one stage left now, but it's not Roglic who is riding the comeback train 
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Posted on 13-04-2020 18:55
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The last climb wasn't steep enough to create any big gaps and this was reflect first in the breakaway group where we had a sprint for the stage win, won by Sebastian Henao. Masnada finished third and will add to his blue jersey a top 10 overall finish as well.
Lopez will definitely be disappointed with the outcome of the climb as the steepness of the climb did not allow for any big moves and the Colombian failed to distance Dumoulin. Not the same could be said about Roglic, who didn't enjoy a good day and could not keep up with the other two
Even though he could not keep up with the duo, Roglic did enough to keep his second place by only 5 seconds! To add to that, he will most likely end up with the purple jersey as he enters tomorrow's stage with an advantage of 12 points over Dumoulin, while the closest sprinters, Gaviria and Van Poppel, are too far away to count
Stage | 1. | | Sebastián Henao | BORA - hansgrohe | 3h27'23 | | 2. | | Sébastien Reichenbach | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 3. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 4. | | Simon Spilak | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 5. | | Tony Gallopin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 7. | | Merhawi Kudus | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 8. | | Niklas Eg | Trek - Segafredo | + 38 | | 9. | | Gino Mäder | Team Dimension Data | + 49 | | 10. |  | Sven Erik Bystrøm | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 11. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'03 | | 12. | | Hernando Bohórquez | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | + 2'09 | | 13. | | Leopold König | CCC Team | + 2'27 | | 14. | | Mario González Salas | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. | | 15. | | Davide Villella | Astana Pro Team | + 3'26 |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 83h48'00 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'30 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 1'35 | | 4. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 4'26 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'43 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 7'15 | | 7. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 7'25 | | 8. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 7'35 | | 9. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 8'31 | | 10. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 12'58 | | 11. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 13'02 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 13'06 | | 13. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 13'09 | | 14. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 18'37 | | 15. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 18'48 |
| | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | 152 | | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 354 | | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | 83h55'25 | | | BORA - hansgrohe | | 251h43'14 |
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Posted on 14-04-2020 11:48
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| | | | | | | T. Dumoulin | | P. Roglic | | F. Masnada | | D. Martinez |
One of the heroes of the first half of the race, Merhawi Kudus crashed out today and was not able to finish the stage. It's quite a shame for him not to finish what has arguably been the best Grand Tour of his career.
Jumbo and UAE were the strongest trains today. While Jumbo are looking to give Van Poppel a second stage win and secure Roglic's purple jersey, UAE are hoping to get Gaviria his fifth win(!) of the race
Van Poppel trusted Roosen's lead - out too much and hoped a late launch would play in his favor. He was wrong though and this gave Gaviria yet another stage win. It's quite strange to see someone who won five stages not getting the points jersey, which actually goes to someone who failed to win even a stage
Stage | 1. | | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 4h13'07 | | 2. | | Phil Bauhaus | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 3. | | Liam Bertazzo | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | s.t. | | 4. | | Timo Roosen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 5. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 6. | | Nacer Bouhanni | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 7. | | Matteo Trentin | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. | | 8. | | Luke Rowe | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 9. | | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 10. | | Jakub Mareczko | CCC Team | s.t. | | 11. |  | Kevin Geniets | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 12. | | Giacomo Nizzolo | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 13. | | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 14. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 15. | | John Degenkolb | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 88h01'07 | | 2. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'30 | | 3. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 1'35 | | 4. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 4'26 | | 5. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 4'43 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 7'15 | | 7. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 7'25 | | 8. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 7'35 | | 9. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 8'31 | | 10. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 12'58 | | 11. | | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 13'02 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 13'06 | | 13. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 13'09 | | 14. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 18'37 | | 15. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 18'48 | | 16. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | + 19'05 | | 17. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 19'59 | | 18. | | Sebastián Henao | BORA - hansgrohe | + 22'57 | | 19. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | + 23'40 | | 20. | | Sébastien Reichenbach | Groupama - FDJ | + 27'06 | | 21. | | Kenny Elissonde | Team INEOS | + 27'33 | | 22. | | Adam Yates | Lotto Soudal | + 27'40 | | 23. | | Diego Ulissi | Bahrain - Merida | + 28'57 | | 24. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | + 29'10 | | 25. | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team INEOS | + 29'35 |
Points Classification | 1. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | 154 | | 2. | | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 143 | | 3. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 140 |
KoM Classification | 1. | | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | 354 | | 2. | | Tony Gallopin | Ag2r La Mondiale | 154 | | 3. | | Gregor Mühlberger | BORA - hansgrohe | 106 |
U25 Classification | 1. | | Daniel Felipe MartÃnez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | 88h08'32 | | 2. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 1'06 | | 3. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | + 11'40 |
Teams Classification | 1. | | BORA - hansgrohe | | 264h22'35 | | 2. | | Team INEOS | | + 5'28 | | 3. | | Mitchelton-Scott | | + 12'16 |
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Posted on 15-04-2020 15:13
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It was a race as good as they come from Groenewegen as the Dutch rider won all 3 mass sprints and the points classification to go with it as well.
Groenewegen celebrating his first win
It was not a race for sprinters in terms of GC though. While in the second stage, we saw a rather big group coming together at the finish line, in the third stage the first group across the line only contained four riders.
After the third stage we had a very interesting situation in the GC, with the first 3 riders, Van Garderen, Rui Costa and Van Aert all with the same time. Even though he tried, Van Aert failed to get on the podium in the last stages to gain bonus seconds. The higher places did give him the edge against Van Garderen though and thus he defend the title won last year.
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | |  | S1 | | Dylan Groenewegen |  | | Dylan Groenewegen | |  | S2 | | Diego Rosa |  | | Diego Rosa | | | S3 |  | Rui Alberto Costa |  | | Tejay Van Garderen |  | | S4 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | Tejay Van Garderen | | | S5 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | Wout Van Aert | |
Results | 1. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | 22h51'29 | | 2. | | Rui Alberto Costa | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 3. | | Tejay Van Garderen | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 4. | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team INEOS | + 10 | | 5. |  | Krists Neilands | Israël - Cycling Academy | + 35 | | 6. | | Mikkel Frølich Honoré | Riwal - Readynez Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7. | | Clément Venturini | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 51 | | 8. | | Diego Rosa | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 9. | | Louis Vervaeke | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'01 | | 10. |  | Alexey Lutsenko | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 11. | | Georg Preidler | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 12. | | Wilmar Paredes | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 13. | | Mathias Le Turnier | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 14. | | Rohan Dennis | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 15. | | Matthias Brändle | Israël - Cycling Academy | s.t. | | 16. |  | Hugo Houle | Israël - Cycling Academy | s.t. | | 17. | | Leonardo Basso | Team INEOS | + 2'18 | | 18. | | Anthony Perez | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 19. | | Sep Vanmarcke | Team INEOS | + 2'44 | | 20. | | Julien Vermote | Team Dimension Data | s.t. |
 | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo-Visma | 53 |  | | Marcus Burghardt | BORA - hansgrohe | 23 |  | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team INEOS | 22h51'39 | | | Team INEOS | | 68h36'39 |
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Posted on 15-04-2020 17:13
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Looked like you might make a comeback in the Giro. Obviously Lopez looked menacing too, but atleast you held on for 2nd place, and took the Points jersey in the process. I think thats a good result for you.
Nice win in Norway as well.
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Posted on 15-04-2020 17:18
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Norway was quite lucky as I have no idea how to game deals with riders being on the same time.
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Great result at the Giro for gaining the points jersey as well as a podium!
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The race started pretty well for Jumbo with Van Emden taking an unlikely victory in front of Dumoulin in the prologue. It wouldn't continue as well though as last year's winner, Steven Kruijswijk was taken out of the GC battle by a late crash in the second stage.
As a result, George Bennett, who finished in the leading group in the second stage was promoted as team leader. His dreams of an overall victory would be shattered pretty soon as well, after losing about 4 and a half minutes to Tom Dumoulin in the long time - trial.
Dumoulin thought he could settle the GC as he did in Il Giro: through time-trials
Dumoulin carried out his time - trialing form from the Giro, but he did not carry on his climbing form as this was obvious in the first mountain stage, which saw Wout Poels move into the leader's jersey and George Bennett back in the top 10.
Things were quite drastically changing from one day to the other in Dauphine, with another rider rising in the last two days. It was Giro's runner up, Miguel Angel Lopez. The Colombian won the last mountain stage to be just 10 seconds behind Poels with one stage to go. And he was once again on the attack in the last stage and he succeeded in getting a gap big enough on the last hill of the race to give him the overall victory.
Lopez gets a gap and wins the final stage and the overall classification
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | |  | Stage 1 | | Jos Van Emden | | | Jos Van Emden | | | Stage 2 | | Julian Alaphilippe |  | | Julian Alaphilippe | | | Stage 3 | | Pascal Ackermann |  | | Julian Alaphilippe | | | Stage 4 | | Tom Dumoulin |  | | Tom Dumoulin | |  | Stage 5 | | Wout Poels | | | Wout Poels | | | Stage 6 | | Tejay Van Garderen | | | Wout Poels | | | Stage 7 | | Miguel Angel Lopez |  | | Wout Poels | | | Stage 8 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | | | Miguel Angel Lopez | |
Results | 1. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | 29h24'25 | | 2. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 23 | | 3. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | + 54 | | 4. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 2'37 | | 5. | | George Bennett | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 2'55 | | 6. | | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 3'55 | | 7. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 3'58 | | 8. | | Alexey Lutsenko | Team Dimension Data | + 4'14 | | 9. | | Nairo Quintana | Mitchelton-Scott | + 4'53 | | 10. | | Bauke Mollema | Team Dimension Data | + 5'18 | | 11. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | + 5'22 | | 12. | | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 5'51 | | 13. | | Gregor Mühlberger | BORA - hansgrohe | + 6'40 | | 14. | | Steven Kruijswijk | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 7'21 | | 15. |  | Mark Padun | Bahrain - Merida | + 8'12 | | 16. | | Adam Yates | Lotto Soudal | + 9'41 | | 17. | | Valentin Madouas | Groupama - FDJ | + 9'54 | | 18. | | Daniel Martin | UAE Team Emirates | + 11'42 | | 19. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 12'16 | | 20. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 12'18 |
 | | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 80 |  | | Lucas Hamilton | Mitchelton-Scott | 31 | | | Mark Padun | Bahrain - Merida | 29h32'37 | | | Team INEOS | | 88h24'51 |
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Due to an illness, Danny Van Poppel would not be able to defend the title won last year. This resulted in some confusion in the Jumbo camp, with some very bad results in the prologue, continued with Groenewegen losing out to Sean De Bie in the second stage.
Things started looking in terms of the overall win in the last stage when the team placed 3 riders in a group of 6 that got away from the pack in the closing kilometers. They messed up the sprint though as they were trying to set up Teunissen (the highest in the GC at the start of the stage) and lost out to Alexander Krieger.
The split being made in the last stage
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | | | Stage 1 | | Martijn Keizer |  | | Martijn Keizer | | | Stage 2 | | Sean De Bie |  | | Sean De Bie | | | Stage 3 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | Sean De Bie | | | Stage 4 | | Martijn Budding |  | | Sean De Bie | | | Stage 5 | | Alexander Krieger | | | Alexander Krieger | |
Results | 1. | | Alexander Krieger | Leopard Pro Cycling | 19h06'33 | | 2. | | Quinten Hermans | Cycling Team Wallonie-Bruxelles | + 4 | | 3. | | Mike Teunissen | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 5 | | 4. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 7 | | 5. | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 10 | | 6. | | Sean De Bie | Roompot-Charles | + 1'16 | | 7. | | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 1'20 | | 8. | | Gorka Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | + 1'25 | | 9. | | Thomas Degand | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | + 1'28 | | 10. | | Davide Villella | Astana Pro Team | + 1'30 | | 11. | | Jan Hirt | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Pit Leyder | Leopard Pro Cycling | + 1'32 | | 13. |  | Markko Frolov | Vlasman Track/Road Continental Cycling Team | + 1'33 | | 14. | | Thomas Sprengers | Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 15. | | Dylan Van Baarle | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'34 | | 16. | | Jesper Asselman | Alecto Cycling Team | s.t. | | 17. | | Jetse Bol | SEG Racing Academy | + 1'40 | | 18. | | Davide Ballerini | Astana Pro Team | + 1'50 | | 19. | | Gianni Marchand | Duvel | + 2'55 | | 20. | | Rémy Mertz | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | + 2'57 |
 | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo-Visma | 67 |  | | Maxime Farazijn | Pauwels sauzen - Vastgoedservice Continental Team | 30 | | | Quinten Hermans | Cycling Team Wallonie-Bruxelles | 19h06'37 | | | Team Jumbo-Visma | | 57h20'17 |
Edited by alexkr00 on 16-04-2020 21:50
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