Elegant, powerful, immediately at ease on the splendid Trabocchi time trial course. Remco Evenepoel doesn’t make calculations and immediately takes the pink jersey of the 106th edition of the Giro d’Italia. The outcome of the first stage was no longer in question at the first time trial at 9.8 km: 12″ in Ganna and 26″ in Roglic. And then it was a crescendo up to the final time of 21’18” which allows the road world champion to wear the race leader’s jersey. For the Belgian from Soudal Quick-Step it is success number 42 in his career, the fifth The second stage, Teramo-San Salvo of 202 km, is scheduled for tomorrow.
evenepoel felice
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Smiling, with the serene and relaxed face of someone who knows they have run a perfect time trial. The 23-year-old Remco Evenepoel is over the moon about his first pink jersey symbolizing the leader of a race that the Belgian began to know with the successes of Alberto Contador in 2015 with Astana. “I faced this test as if it were a world championship. I worked hard to get the pink jersey and I succeeded”.
lap, stage classification and pink jersey
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These are the top 10 positions after the Trabocchi time trial: