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Alberto Contador expects 'irretrievable gaps' on Etna as Giro d'Italia GC battle hots up with Simon Yates in second
Alberto Contador expects the battle for pink to kick into life on Stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia and “irretrievable gaps” to potentially be opened up. After Monday’s rest day, the race returns with a mountain-top finish at Mount Etna.
Giro d'Italia 2022: How long can Mathieu van der Poel keep it up? Why Mark Cavendish has to go to Tour
An enforced break to get the riders and race infrastructure all the way from Hungary to Sicily – a mere 2,000 kilometres by car – gives the cycling media a moment to pause and reflect on the events of the opening three days of the 105th edition of the Giro d’Italia. If the race has largely kept to script, it has also thrown up no shortage of talking points. Here are 10 of them dissected by Felix Lowe before the race resumes with its first summit finish on Tuesday.
Giro d'Italia 2022 Stage 4 - How to watch on Tuesday, TV and live stream details, timings and route map
The 2022 Giro d'Italia heads to Sicily and the first mountain stage of the year and a race up the volcano of Mount Etna. After a day of rest — or day of travel from Hungary to Italy — the peloton returns to test the mettle of the climbers with a gruelling 30km uphill finish. Ad/> Mathieu van der Poel still leads the General Classification after victory on Stage 1 and second place in the Individual Time Trial of Stage 2.
Giro d’Italia leader Mathieu van der Poel expects to surrender pink jersey on Mount Etna during Stage 4
Giro d’Italia leader Mathieu van der Poel says he will make the most of wearing the pink jersey when the race resumes, as he does not expect to hold on to it for much longer. The Dutch rider goes into the first Italian stage at the top of the leaderboard for his Alpecin-Fenix team having built up an 11-second advantage over Britain’s Simon Yates after the three stages in Hungary. Ad/> “It’s nice to wear the pink and nice to take the jersey to Italy.
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'Like chess on wheels' - Mark Cavendish on being neither the fastest nor strongest sprinter after Giro d’Italia Stage 3
After taking the 16th stage win of his career at the Giro d’Italia, Mark Cavendish says there are many different ways to win a race and it is not always down to brute strength. Sprinting ahead of the peloton, the 36-year-old fought off competition from Arnaud Demare (Groupama FDJ), Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirate) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) to win the first sprint finish of the 2022 edition, nine years on from his last appearance at the event.
Las Palmas | García Pimienta estrenará lateral derecho en Alcorcón
«Sabíamos que con tanta gente apercibida esto iba a ir sucediendo», comentaba Xavier García Pimienta en la rueda de prensa post partido del pasado viernes tras apretar sus labios antes de hablar sobre las quintas amarillas de Lemos y Cardona. Y es que ante el Mirandés los amarillos se presentaron al envite con un abanico de apercibidos: Viera, Maikel Mesa, Lemos, y Cardona. Además, en la grada animaba a sus compañeros un Saúl Coco, lesionado del hombro, también con cuatro tarjetas.