Unbeatable Ineos? No, so far Bora is the strongest team

Two stages won, on Etna and Blockaus, and as many men in the standings, Hindley and Buchmann: whoever wants to win the Giro will have to deal with them

breaking latest news. The Bora wind blows on the Giro. We are not in Trieste and its surroundings where, when that wind blows, it is hard to even stand up, but at the Giro d’Italia where a team is making pots and lids. And it is news that it is not, so far, the millionaire battleship Ineos, the one it was Wiggins, Thomas, Froome, Bernal and that he would like to be from Carapaz.

The Bora Hansgrohe blows on the Giro. The German team, which has grown in reputation and victories thanks to a giant like Peter Sagan, has decided to “turn” on the big stage races and the results are visible. Stage victory of Lennard Kamna on Etna, success of Jai Hindley on the Blockhaus on Sunday and the Australian himself, second by a whisker in the 2020 Giro and then joined the team precisely to raise the level in the great laps, placed in the standings at 20 “from the pink jersey Juan Pedro Lopez (Trek), with the other leader Emanuel Buchmanthe German fourth in the Tour 2019 not pizza and figs, ninth at 1’27 “, and still the same king of Etna Kamna 15th at 3 ‘and a half.
In short, a real battleship. The Friulian sports director will also lead it this year Enrico Gasparotto. Forty years old, two Amstel Gold Races on the showcase, is from Casarsa della Delizia, land of good wine and above all of a giant like Pierpaolo Pasolini.

He “reads” the Giro in a decisive way, a bit like in 2005 as a neopro, right in Montesilvano, where his team was staying yesterday, he electrocuted everyone in the Italian championship. «Hindley is fine, yet after the Liege he had had 4 days of high fever and was about to be excluded from the Giro. Buchmann didn’t have the best spring but he is here, Kamna is strong and Cellarman he only had a bad day on the Blochkaus – he explains – in short, we want to win again ». Gasparotto also praises the young Emilian Giovanni Aleottione of Italbici’s hopes: «He is doing an enormous job and will have the green light to play for a stage».

And the hunt for the pink jersey? «No, I see Mikel Landa as favorite, he is doing very well and think that on Sunday he also crashed twice. Then Carapaz and for the podium yes, we are there too ». Bluff? Perhaps, “radio group” croaks that his team is the strongest. Even more than the Ineos? He smiles: «So far we have won more. It is true we have many cards to play, and it is certainly stimulating to play them, but we must not make a mistake ».
On Tuesday 17 May the Giro restarts. In the same hotel as the Bora Hansgrohe on Monday, on the day of rest, there was a radiant Lopez.

He will race happily in his pink jersey – which, barring twists and turns, he could easily keep up to the Turin stage on Saturday – towards the hills of the Marche region.

Where the Giro d’Italia will experience one of its most touching moments: the passage to Filottrano. The country, where that giant of was born and died Michele Scarponi.

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