In four seconds the game is. That is the tiny margin of time with which it will depart Mads Pedersen, The last cyclist to take the output ramp (16:56), in the first individual counterreloj of the Giro de Italia 2025. The Lidl-Trek made history for his country yesterday, becoming the First Danish as always to carry the leader rose maglia, Thanks to an imposing sprint with which he beat Wout van Aert In the tyrannical goal.
The Belgian will be his main threat, a great counterrelojista, although Pedersen himself has surrendered at high level in tours like this Saturday, only 13.7 km, As their past triumphs show in the Denmark Tour, Etoile de Bessèges and the prologue of the Tour de la Provence.
“Now I can’t simply enjoy during the remaining twenty stages. I’m hungry for more. I will do everything possible to keep the rose maglia tomorrow (for today); Sometimes I do it well in short counterrelojes. If not, I hope that for my teammate, Mathias Vaceka, assumes the position, ”explained a plethoric Pedersen, who has the confidence of maintaining the leadership despite the fact that they are going to have serious options to relieve him.
And it is that numbers in hand, the history of both when they have coincided in counterreloj is clearly favorable to Belgian, who was ahead of the Danish on 9 of the 11 occasions (7 of them in the tour) in which they faced themselves in this discipline. The first runner to leave will be Niklas Markl at 13:25, with intervals of 1 minute between each cyclist until the arrival of the last 15, which will leave separated for 3 minutes. The only two who will not leave, abandoned the first stage, will be Mikel Rural y Geoffrey Bouchard.
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