Players.bio is a large online platform sharing the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores. Exclusive interviews, fresh photos and videos, breaking news. Stay tuned to know everything you wish about your favorite stars 24/7. Check our daily updates and make sure you don't miss anything about celebrities' lives.

Contacts

  • Owner: SNOWLAND s.r.o.
  • Registration certificate 06691200
  • 16200, Na okraji 381/41, Veleslavín, 162 00 Praha 6
  • Czech Republic

Remco Evenepoel reclaims pink jersey after stage nine victory at Giro d’Italia

Remco Evenepoel reclaimed the Giro d’Italia pink jersey after dramatically edging out Geraint Thomas by a single second in the stage nine time trial.

Thomas looked to have done enough when he beat fellow Briton and Ineos Grenadiers teammate Tao Geoghegan Hart by the same margin in the 35-kilometre race from Savignano sul Rubicone to Cesena on Sunday afternoon.

But Evenepoel flew out of the traps and, despite appreciably slowing after the first time check, the Belgian had enough in the tank to pip Thomas by crossing the line in 41min 24sec.

Evenepoel, who led the general classification for the first three stages, is now back in pink ahead of Monday’s rest day, with Thomas his closest challenger 45sec behind the Soudal–Quick-Step rider.

“I don’t think I paced it very well,” Evenepoel said. “I started too fast and my second part wasn’t that great. I found some better legs in the technical part because I could recover a bit. I wasn’t feeling too well in the second part with the head wind. It’s another stage win, but it wasn’t my best time trial.

“To go to the mountains with the advantage I have now is pretty good, but Ineos for sure will have some plans to attack me. But we have a strong team and a lot of confidence. I will have to recover well because my last two stages weren’t my best days. Firstly I want to enjoy this victory.”

Thomas remains without a stage win at the Giro and reflected ruefully on his fourth runnerup finish in the event’s time trial, having come second twice in 2012 and once in 2017.

“It’s nice to be getting better, but to be so close to the win kind of hurts,” he said. “A few too many seconds for my liking, but it’s good to be in it anyway. Myself and Teo right up there looks good for the next part of

Read more on theguardian.com