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Teammates Sepp Kuss and Jonas Vingegaard dominated nan precocious mountains for Visma-Lease a Bike connected Friday arsenic nan erstwhile claimed a historical solo triumph connected shape 19 of nan Giro d’Italia, and nan second firmly defended his wide lead.
By winning nan sadistic upland shape atop Piani di Pezzè successful nan Dolomites, Kuss became nan 116th rider to complete nan Grand Tour shape triumph trilogy, pinch nan American adding an Italian occurrence to wins astatine nan Tour de France successful 2021 and nan Vuelta a España successful 2019 and 2023.
The monstrous 151km shape done nan Dolomites packed a sadistic 5,000m of climbing into a relentless rollercoaster of high-altitude climbs and method descents, earlier finishing successful nan Veneto colony of Alleghe.
Lidl-Trek’s Giulio Ciccone seized his chance connected nan last agelong descent, nan Italian breaking free from nan chasing group to found a one-minute lead pinch 10km remaining. However, Kuss launched a relentless pursuit arsenic soon arsenic nan last uphill climb commenced, catching and passing Ciccone pinch conscionable complete 2km near earlier riding clear.
Kuss crossed nan decorativeness statement unsocial successful beforehand of thousands of cheering fans to unafraid nan triumph 13 seconds up of nan Canadian, Derek Gee-West, of Lidl-Trek. Ciccone held disconnected nan remainder of nan chasers to return third, 36sec down Kuss.
The Austrian Felix Gall of Decathlon took fourth, 39sec down Kuss, conscionable up of Vingegaard, who crossed nan statement pinch nan aforesaid clip successful fifth.
That leaves Vingegaard pinch a commanding lead of 4min 3sec complete Gall successful nan wide classification.
Earlier connected Friday, Jhonatan Narvaez of UAE Team Emirates was forced to wantonness nan title owed to complications from a insignificant incident nan erstwhile day. The squad said nan Ecuadorean had a mini clang connected Thursday during nan post-stage transportation backmost to nan squad autobus and nan resulting discomfort was excessively terrible to continue. Narvaez leaves nan Giro pinch 3 shape victories.
