In Terre Roveresche the tricolor pricks Switzerland, who does not give up. There are 16 ”to be recovered in the penultimate stage, the most difficult, with arrival on top of Mount Nero. Today winning escape of the German Lipperrt
Elisa Longo Borghini tried us again, in a tough stage, on the Marche hills surrounded by the heat. Tears and climbs that cut the legs. The Piedmontese of the EAE-Adq has a very strong team, which moves in synchronous with her: Silvia Persico is her pawn to move the waters, in the flagship the guide Paolo Slongo, who won everything with Vincenzo Nibali. Two attacks by the Italian champion, 9 km from the arrival of Terre Roveresche (Orciano di Pesaro), in the Marche, a milestone of the sixth stage of the Giro Women. Yesterday the tricolor had surprised everyone with that attack in the wind 50 km from the arrival of Monselice, today he still tested the reaction of the Marle Reusser Rosa shirt: because if you don’t try, you don’t know if the rival bluffing or is at the limit or is experiencing difficult moments. But Reusser replied immediately. And the duel for the final pink jersey of Imola is thus postponed on Saturday at the top of Monte Nerone, arrival uphill, and Sunday in the final stage designed on the path of the 2020 World Cup.
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Therefore, space at the last escape of the Women Giro before the two decisive stages. Today in Terre Roveresche (Orciano di Pesaro), the municipality born in 2017 from the union of several countries, the German Liane Lipper, 27 years old, partner of the Pink Reusser jersey for Movistar is imposed. Sprint two, beaten the Dutch Paulina Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) at 2 “; third another Dutch, Shirin Van Anrooij (Lidl-Trek) at 46”. The group with the big names reaches 1’24 “: ninth Longo Borghini, Decima Malcotti, 12th Rosa Reusser jersey. In the standings, Switzerland Reusser commands with 16” on Longo Borghini, third van der Bregen (Ola) at 1’53 “, fourth Rooijakkers (Ola) at 2’02”, fifth Aalerud (Nor) at 2’07 ” Giant (AUS) at 2’16 “, the climber who has the grandparents of the province of Benevento and had imposed himself on the finish line at the altitude of flatness.
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Tomorrow the seventh and penultimate stage, Fermignano-Monte Nero, 150 km and five stars of difficulty. It is the hardest stage with 3850 meters in altitude. We are in the province of Pesaro-Urbino, with a trespassing in that of Perugia. The rise of Monte Nero, at 1404 meters, measures 8 to 8% average: the hardest stretch are the last 2500 meters at 9%, with peaks of 12% at the last kilometer. Sunday conclusion with the eighth stage, Forlì-Imola, (Autodromo Enzo and Dino Ferrari), 134 km and four stars: we run on the hard route that hosted the World Championship of Imola 2020, with arrival on the circuit track.
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