Giro d’Italia
Gall in second place – Vingegaard takes the stage win!
Austria’s cycling ace Felix Gall secured his fourth second-place finish in the ongoing Giro d’Italia on Tuesday and is now also second overall.
Once again, the East Tyrolean was only beaten by Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard. The overall leader broke away from Gall on the final climb 6.5 km before the finish and built a 1:09-minute lead on the 16th stage, which took place in Switzerland. Overall, Gall trails by 4:03 minutes.
After 113 kilometers and approximately 2,800 meters of climbing from Bellinzona, Gall initially broke away from the rest of the leading group when Vingegaard attacked just before the halfway point of the final 12-kilometer climb, though he did not follow the Scandinavian. However, the Decathlon pro let himself drop back to join a multi-rider chase group, from which he launched the final sprint just a few hundred meters before the finish line, securing important bonus seconds. Third place in the stage went to Australian Jai Hindley of Team Bora.
Gall and his team had expected Vingegaard to make a move about two kilometers from the finish, not so early. “But it’s worked very well the last few times, and of course I wanted to try it again today. But that was a bit too early for my liking. I then waited for the group behind me,” Gall explained on Eurosport. “That was another show of strength (by Vingegaard, ed.).” He was then able to pace himself well on the back wheels of the others. “I tried to gain a few more seconds.”
Arensmann 24 seconds behind Gall in third
After the stage to Ticino, Gall is now just over four minutes behind Visma star Vingegaard, who has already won four mountain stages; Dutch rider Thymen Arensmann is third, 4:27 minutes behind the leader. Hindley follows exactly five minutes back in fourth, while previous second-place rider Alfonso Eulalio now finds himself 5:40 minutes back in fifth place. For Gall, the priority now is to stay ahead of his pursuers: “So far, things have been going really well, but we’re now in the third, decisive week.”
Two more difficult stages lie ahead, the 24-year-old said, looking ahead to Friday and Saturday. “But tomorrow and the day after won’t be rest days either. They’re long days with high temperatures. So far, things are going very, very well, but we still have a tough fight ahead of us.” On Wednesday, the 109th Giro d’Italia returns to Italy, with the stage finishing after 202 km in Andalo in the province of Trento. Gall’s domestique Gregor Mühlberger performed well, finishing 14th on the stage; he is now in 15th place overall. The race continues through Sunday.
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