Of immaculate pink and without rival. At its premiere in the Dolomites, Jonas Vingegaard rode alone to the top of Piancavallo to seal his fifth victory and immediately look for the handlebars of his Cervélo S5. There, since this season, the family picture lives with Trine and her two children. It is the aero machine that the Dane adopted perennially after the brutal Itzulia accident, banishing forever that R5 that was linked to the fall that changed his career and his character.
With it you will complete the circle of the three great turns. His hegemony in Italy is only separated by a 130 kilometer walk through Rome. In the end, He is one win away from Pogacar’s record in 2024, which achieved six stage wins. This is how cycling is written in the modern era, only within the reach of two chosen ones, for a new imperatore unattainable in his first time in Italy.
Stage 20 of the Giro d’Italia.
Behind him, a dense list of renowned voltomaniacs, far removed today from the dominant bicephaly, measured their forces with a calculator in their hands. A slow, cold and purely strategic fight for the remaining podium boxes.
Last pink recital
The day was longer, but less intense than the one that crowned Sepp Kuss yesterday. 200 kilometers and 3750 meters of elevation gain with a double final pass through the Piancavallo (14.5 km at 7.8%). On the first climb they left the escape by hand and on the second came the final blow.
Igor Arrieta He arrived before reaching the port for the first time and, with the momentum of the Navarrese, stage winner in Potenzathe leak began on final climb of the Giro with 2:08. Swim with the yellow roller lurking behind.
The last lash of Vingegaard in the Giro He arrived 11 kilometers from the finish line. Kuss and Piganzoli They opened exhausted and the Danish genius unleashed with tremendous violence to tie his fifth stage. Felix Gall, who has lost time on each climb, could only hold out for 300 meters; A kilometer and a half later, Jonas eliminated the last resisters of the escape. This is how the chronicle of this Giro has been written: a monologue by Visma and an imperial Vingegaard that is already preparing weapons for its great objective of the year, which will start in Barcelona in just a month.