The RCS president followed the last 15 kilometers of the Aosta Valley stage: “Our Davide Piganzoli and Giulio Pellizzari did very well”
On Friday Urbano Cairo followed in the car of race director Stefano Allocchio the first 60 kilometers of Alessandra-Verbania, stage number 13 of the Giro d’Italia then won with a great solo in the finale by Alberto Bettiol. While for yesterday’s Aosta-Pila “I wanted to come, then I wasn’t coming, but in the end I said to myself that I couldn’t miss it – explained the president and CEO of RCS Mediagroup -. So I organized myself and arrived around 4pm, climbing into Allocchio’s flagship again to follow the last 15 kilometers live. Beautiful”. They turned out to be, as one might expect, the decisive ones, culminating with the lunge of Jonas Vingegaard, who took the third stage success and the pink jersey. “We saw the progressive recovery of those who were on the run, and then the Dane who went away towards success. But I was also pleased to see our team doing very well. I’m thinking of Davide Piganzoli, Giulio Pellizzari”.
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The Gazzetta race is entering the decisive phase: Jonas Vingegaard takes the lead, he was the favorite at the start in Nessebar, Bulgaria, and even more so now. But it’s too early to say that the games are over, that the end of the story has already been written, as underlined by Cairo who participated in Vingegaard’s award ceremony on the podium: “I saw that Eulalio is now at 2’26”, Gall at 2’50”. Then Pellizzari recovered some positions and is sixth, as well as being in the running for the white jersey of the youth which is always a good objective. It seems to me that he is recovering well from the crisis he had. And then, one more time, I saw so many people on the street to watch the Giro, sometimes even almost too close to the riders. Incredible.” The 109th edition, which will end in Rome – for the fourth consecutive time, it had never happened before – on Sunday 31 May in Via del Circo Massimo, is constantly accompanied by enthusiasm and interest. “Yes, that’s how it is. And then, it’s true that Vingegaard is proving to have an edge, but I have to say that Gall held up well, he didn’t lose much. I’m not forgetting Hindley either, who has already won a Giro and had a great race.”
Prospect
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For the fifteenth stage, today, the race is preparing to embrace Milan again after five years: “I am very happy with this return. Since I have been in charge of RCS and have been organizing the Giro (since the 2017 edition, ed.) we have made three great arrivals in Milan, with the last stage. And yes, it is nice to find Milan again with a day as important as the one that awaits us. It happens on a Sunday, moreover, and this can help the reception of the race Milanese”.
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The stage, assuming an average of 47 per hour – the route is completely flat – will end around 5.15pm, and then there will be another appointment particularly felt by Cairo, as president of Torino: at 8.45pm, for the last day of Serie A, the derby with Juventus at the Olimpico Grande Torino is scheduled: “Yes. For the stage, I think I will also be present at the departure from Voghera before seeing the grand finale in Milan. As for the derby, it is a match of great ‘desire’, a match in which desire makes the difference.” A different emotion compared to that of the Giro d’Italia “which comes from the places, from the people, from the efforts that the runners make. Torino… is really too much of an emotional, visceral thing”.
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