Plat, flat, plano, piano... tant de mots pour dire que l'étape du jour ne comportait pas la moindre difficulté. En effet, cette 13e étape du Tour d'Italie entre Riccione et Cento (179 km) ne comptait que 150 mètres de dénivelé positif. Un terrain parfait pour les sprinteurs, qui ont su s'exprimer avec la victoire du meilleur d'entre eux sur ce Giro : Jonathan Milan ! Parfaitement emmené par son équipe Lidl-Trek, l'Italien a été chercher sa 3e victoire d'étape sur cette 107e édition et conforte son maillot Cyclamen. Il a devancé sur la ligne Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Cofidis) et Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious). Tandis que Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) conserve sans problème la tête du classement général.
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00:03 ...for this, Stowman on the front, then comes Ed Turns, then comes Simone Consoni,
00:06 and then, and only then, comes Jonathan Milan in control, but they're all lined up on the wheel
00:11 of the big man, Fernando Gaviria is there, Caleb Ewan, Phil Bauhaus is there, waiting to sprint,
00:16 Lidl Trekno will burn through their resources before anyone dares to move, here comes Ed Turns,
00:21 Simone Consoni lining themselves up for the finish, this is Lidl Treks to lose, the man in the
00:27 Mallea Ciclamino has all the other sprinters on his wheel, waiting patiently, patiently,
00:32 Fernando Gaviria, as he often does, tries to go long, Gaviria hitting the front, forcing Milan to react,
00:38 Oliveira on the wheel of Milan, Milan goes, Milan to the centre, Ani Lekrovski on his wheel,
00:44 but here comes Jonathan Milan, pushing for the line, Milan, he's gonna make it, win number three,
00:49 and the Giro d'Italia, and the rest of them were not even close in the end, a masterful display from
00:55 Jonathan Milan, and a thorough victory at the Giro d'Italia.
00:59 Do you feel sorry for the climbers today?
01:11 You know today, yeah, it's another, again, important stage for us, no, so
01:21 yeah, we feel it yesterday, it was tough, it was a tough day, we tried to recover and today we will try to go
01:26 again for the sprint. But having no climb today, does it mean that you might have more opponents?
01:33 Yeah, yeah, in the end, you know, also with this win it will be a bit tricky, but for sure we'll be a bit
01:41 more open, we will try to control with the breakaway, that not many guys are going,
01:47 so it will be not that much difficult to close it in the end, and yeah, we will try our best like
01:52 we did it until now, yeah, that's for sure. But now I think we can get the race underway, and out
01:58 onto a three and a half kilometer neutralized rollout, and they'll get a sense of how the
02:03 wind is blowing when they leave town, and that'll be interesting. Yeah, they would have been briefed,
02:09 it might be one or two teams with a bit of a plan to maybe try. Be interested in that,
02:14 it's on 284, Cam Jahn 242, and Fiorelli 217, and it's those teams that attack straight away,
02:20 and it's Petrobon. Yes, Petrobon leading, and that's, well there we go, is he going to be in
02:25 the start, is Ballerini going to join them? Oh, he thought about it. What is he doing?
02:30 It's one of, oh, Alaphilippe. You got close at the last sprint, even better today? Yeah, I mean,
02:39 that seems to be the theme for us, just keep trying. And yeah, I think the finish suits us
02:45 well with the lead out we have, and yeah, I expect we can be at the front today. In which way does it
02:52 suit you better? Well, I think it's more technical, I think that helps a lot, it's not such a straight
02:57 run-in like the last days, so positioning and setting up the final earlier is, yeah, more
03:02 important to be in a good position and getting it safely to the finish. In terms of pure speed,
03:09 do you think you have more than Jonathan Milan? No, not at all, I think he's by far the fastest,
03:14 possibly the fastest in the world at the moment, and yeah, it's going to take a really good run
03:19 to beat him, so we'll see if we can try something new today. Fasano, second, following stage to
03:26 Andorra, first. Let's have a listen, Sassi Leclasse. He's like, he's not arguing with that,
03:36 older. And they're one of the big teams that hasn't lost anybody, the whole squad is intact,
03:45 as you said. Sheffield, Navas, the more you think about it, the more frightening it is.
03:50 And the time trial left, so in terms of ambiguous parkour, where teams can be disruptive,
04:02 not thinking about the race, rather than it's just man on man, there's not a lot of that left,
04:07 so most of the terrain is just going to suit Taddei Borgaccia, and whether he's isolated or not,
04:14 it's going to be hard to put him into any difficulty. That is what's going to happen,
04:17 they're dividing the spoils, there's not the body language there from Tonelli,
04:20 no challenge then to Pietro Bon, who rolls through the first bonus sprint of the day,
04:26 and picks up 10 intermediate sprint points to go above Julian Alaphilippe, and into the lead of
04:33 that secondary classification. And about the wrong way, possibly taking a bit too much, oh,
04:39 yeah, no, he's going into the supermarket car park there. Just thought for a minute,
04:46 he spotted somebody new. Yeah, two, looks like it might be. Again, an acknowledgement that they're
04:52 actually taking a few more points away from him in defense of Fiorelli's lead in this classification.
04:57 That does make a lot of tactical sense, and it's fair given what they allowed Pietro Bon to do
05:03 earlier on. As we look at the Autodromo Inzo e Dino Ferrari at Imola, the location of course of
05:10 Julian Alaphilippe's road world wins a few years ago. They were a late replacement, weren't they?
05:18 And this weekend is the Formula One race that was cancelled or postponed last year, wasn't it?
05:23 Because of the floods, they decided they couldn't possibly go ahead, given all the people trying to
05:31 make their way here for Formula One. You can see in all the paddocks, all the bits and pieces,
05:35 all kinds of intention that they might plan a move like this. A change in direction has
05:40 prompted all sorts of action. It's go time for the INEOS Grenadiers. Jonathan Davias,
05:44 Tobias Vossen, Geraint Thomas driving this on. And look how much road they've got to play with
05:48 ahead of them here. So real danger. And the first sign of splits there.
05:52 Holding on to their advantage here, but it's only 24 seconds now to the three riders at the front
05:58 of the race. The question for me is how long will this group ride? It's still a long way to go. 56kms.
06:04 Yeah. Given that cross headwind, they won't be riding much in excess of 50kms an hour. Still an
06:08 hour of racing. About an hour and a quarter, I would say, of racing. Will they be one or two
06:13 runs? Might seem to think, well, let's just knock it off. But right now, let's have a little look
06:18 at this. They're just moving up the outside. Short turn. Through that heat haze, that shimmery
06:23 heat haze, you can see that the front of the peloton doesn't look like it's entirely calmed
06:28 down yet either. No. He's trying to get a little bit of brief shelter behind the motorbike there
06:33 as they swing around it. Back into the wind. 21 seconds they've earned. But flat out, this is
06:43 so we've got about... Oh, it's been a big crash. Oh, Poltico-Meta rider just getting down back
06:49 from under that barrier there. And the rider on the floor, I think it's David Decker. Oh,
06:55 no, it's not actually. It's Ewan Costue, their climber. And that's forced a little bit of a
06:59 split in the bunch as well. Yeah, Nara Kintana was down in that one as well. Got a feeling Ben O'Connor
07:03 might be the wrong side of that. There's a Decathlon AG2R jersey there. Cofidis rider,
07:10 and that's Ruben Fernandez, their climber. And that's Costue just gingerly getting to his feet
07:14 and splits all over their place there. Stowman on the front, then comes Ed Turns, then comes
07:19 Simone Consoni. And then, and only then, comes Jonathan Milan in control. But they're all lined
07:24 up on the wheel of the big man. Fernando Gaviria is there, Caleb Ewan, Phil Bauhaus is there,
07:28 waiting to sprint. Lidl Trekno will burn through their resources before anyone dares to move.
07:34 Here comes Ed Turns, Simone Consoni lining themselves up for the finish. This is Lidl
07:39 Trekno to lose. The man in the Mallea Ciclamino has all the other sprinters on his wheel,
07:44 waiting patiently, patiently. Fernando Gaviria, as he often does, tries to go long. Gaviria hitting
07:50 the front, forcing Milan to react. Oliveira on the wheel of Milan. Milan goes, Milan to the centre.
07:56 Ania Lutkowski on his wheel, but here comes Jonathan Milan, pushing for the line. Milan,
08:00 he's going to make it. Win number three. And the Giro d'Italia, and the rest of them were not even
08:06 close in the end. A masterful display from Jonathan Milan, and a thorough victory at the Giro d'Italia.
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