The transition days do not exist in the great tours. And this Italy spin He has been in charge of demonstrating it on several occasions. He did it on the way to Salerno, when Remco Evenepoel began to lose his participation in the Italian round, as in a eighth stage in which Primoz Roglic gave a show unexpectedly. That has been the only offensive movement in conditions that we have seen in our entire career by one of the favorites, by the way…
This Saturday, on paper, another day awaits us in which nothing remarkable should happen unless external factors insist otherwise. One of them could be rain, whose probability of appearance does not drop too much compared to previous days. Their presence could turn a journey that offers hardly any difficulties into survival.
The only mountainous one will be the 1st category port located in the initial part, the Passo del Sempione (20.2 km at 6.5% average), crowned at 2,004 meters still on Swiss territory. Once passed, the runners will return to Italy, where the teams of the sprinters will have more than 100 km to rearm and take their leaders to a new volata. yesterday, the Mads Pedersen withdrawal left a scenario largely favorable to jonathan milan in the struggle of the cyclamen, with Pascal Ackerman as the immediate pursuer at 76 points. The Italian is practically worth it to get to Rome.