Egan Bernal attacked on the mountain and made the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia spicy

The fourth stage of Tour of Italy He had the expected emotions. It was contested on a route of 187 kilometers among the populations of Piacenza Y Sestola. The winner of the day was the American Joe Dombrowski, who managed to crown the day from the escape.

The end of the day itched upwards and there the favorites in the race made the first differences. Among the strongest was Egan Bernal, who attacked, made differences and is already located 11º in the general classification. Daniel Martinez He also completed a good presentation, as he reached the finish line in position 30º and in the general qualifiers it is 23º.

The Italian Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers) paid the consequences of the mountain and lost the leader’s jersey after wearing it during the first three stages. Now the one who wears pink is the Italian Alessandro De Marchi.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE DAY:

The fourth fraction of the race presented the arrival of the mountain, and with it, the possibility that the favorites could ‘sting’ a few seconds in the dispute for the general classification. Egan Bernal, in the lead up to the conference, stated that the escape could be the main protagonist and, indeed, a large group of runners was formed from the beginning.

Near 20-25 runners they formed a large group of escape with an initial margin of 2 minutes. However, with the passing of the kilometers (105 km) the gap grew until it was located around the five minutes during a good portion of the journey: Nicolas Edet, Valerio Conti, Nelson OliveirOh Victor Campeonaerts were some of the prominent men who made up said getaway set.

Later, and in the midst of low temperatures, rain and even snow, the team Astana began to pick up his pace in the peloton thinking of a hypothetical escape hunt. After a few kilometers, INEOS He put himself at the head of the ‘group’ having the one who was the leader, the Italian Filippo Ganna, as the main basis to cut time in the level ground, prior to the mountain.

The ports began 50 kilometers from the finish line and, since then, they would not be finished until the end of the day; After the first row of promotions, Ganna was cut off and left the leader’s ‘Maglia Rosa’. And with 28 kilometers to go, the Quick Step took command on the climb, making a significant discard of runners. Egan remained in the vanguard positions, sheltered by INEOS – where he is also Daniel Martinez-, as well as Harold tejada (Astana).

There were five kilometers to go and the group of favorites put a very hard pace in the last ascent, leaving some candidates like the Portuguese João Almeida at a disadvantage early on. Egan and Tejada resisted, as well as other ‘capos’: Simon Yates, Remco Evenepoel y Mikel Landa.

The latter attacked with 2.7 km to go, however, Egan responded and continued straight along with Aleksandr Vlasov, Hugh Carthy and the aforementioned Landa, managing to get some 11 seconds a Yates, Evenepoel, And Martin, some of the candidates for the general classification.

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE FOURTH STAGE:

1. Alessandro De Marchi (Israel Start-Up): 13h 50minutos 44 segundos.

2. Joe Dombrowski (Team Emirates) a 22 segundos.

3. Louis Vervaeke (Alpecin) a 42 segundos.

4. Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team) at 48 seconds.

5. Attila Valter (Groupama) a 1 minuto.

6. Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) at 1 minute 15 seconds.

7. Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana) at 1 minute 24 seconds.

11. Egan Bernal (INEOS) at 1 minute 39 seconds.

23. Daniel Felipe Martínez (INEOS) at 2 minutes 10 seconds.

This Wednesday the fifth fraction will take place and the flat terrain will say ‘present’ again. It will run over 177 kilometers between the towns of Modena and Cattolica with two sprints bonuses at kilometer 70 and 138 respectively. Fernando Gaviria (Team Emirates) will have their third chance to reach the stage win which, so far, has eluded him.

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