Pogacar is immense, poker at the Giro di Lombardia: equaled Coppi. The order of arrival

Como, 12 October 2024 – The Tour of Lombardy 2024 offers 255 kilometers da Bergamo a As an, arrival location anyway despite the last-minute modification of part of the route due to the flooding of the lake. Something changes, but what doesn't change is the script: Tadej pogacar calls the shots in all the races and now all that remains to be determined is the kilometre in which the new world champion takes off. In the last Classical Monument of the season the Slovenian starts at 48,5 km from the finish line and it is an action as always inexorable that leads to the poker of victories in a row in the Classic of Dead Leaves which had only succeeded in Fausto coppi. The other race, that of the 'humans', sees the podium completed with Remco Evenepoel e Julius Ciccone: if for the Belgian the taste is the bitter one of yet another defeat in the head to head with his rival, for the Abruzzese the result is a surprise on the day in which theItaly she had deluded herself with the presence of the fugitive Antonio Tiberi, then soon in crisis. And, above all, on the day that marks the end of the career of Dominic Pozzo alive e Dario Cataldo.

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The first shot features the protagonists Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Julius Masotto (Team Corratec-Vini Fantini) e Connor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), chased by a group led by Attila Valter (Visma-Lease a Bike): This attack is caught by the group on the first climb of the day, the Bianzano dropout (6,3 km with an average slope of 5,1%). Then it's up to wilco kelderman (Visma-Lease a Bike) e Remy Rochas (Groupama-FDJ) extend downhill: on the climb of the Selvino (11,4 km with an average slope of 5,5%) are added to them Axel Laurance (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), Brandon Smith Rivera (Ineos Bremen), Julien bernard (Lidl-Trek) e Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL). The group of fugitives grows and also welcomes Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious), Daniel Felipe Martinez (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Eddie Dunbar (Team Jayco AlUla), One Rubio (Movistar Team), Harold Martin Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Mauri Vansevenant (Soudal Quick-Step) e Matteo Fabbro (Team Polti Kometa): behind them, at a distance of almost 1', There are Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Damian Caruso (Bahrain Victorious), Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon AG2R The World Team), rudy molard (Groupama-FDJ), Thymen Arensmann (Ineos Grenadiers), Gregor Muhlberger (Movistar Team), Kevin Marks (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Tiesj Benoot (Visma-Lease a Bike) e Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility). The strategy is clear for everyone: try to exhaust theUAE Team Emirates, not by chance at full speed from the beginning to take care of the pursuit. The two platoons rejoin on the Berbenno Hill (4,5 km with an average slope of 6,2%), but paradoxically the advantage decreases precisely in this phase of the race which on paper is favourable. It starts to rise again towards Valpiana (10,4 km with an average slope of 6,1%), on the first ramps of which he surprisingly loses contact in front Tiberi. On a rather simple stretch, without any major climbs, the advantage of the leaders starts to grow again. We get back to serious business on the Saddle of Osigo (5 km with an average slope of 5,7%) and on the climb of the Madonna del Ghisallo (6,3 km with an average slope of 4,1%): these are two ascents that mark the end of the dreams of glory of Lopez, Johannessen e Caruso, victim of cramps on his birthday, while Blacksmith he returns immediately after a mechanical problem. After Arensmann è molar to try to go away on the descent: the Frenchman returns to attack on the first ramps of the Fill of Sormano (13,1 km with an average slope of 6,5% and maximum of 13%), taking his companion with him Rochas e Dunbar, but shortly after what is much more interesting is the outburst of die. From the main group they lose contact Alexander Vlasov, Jay Hindley, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Davide Piganzoli (Team Polti Kometa), Filippo Zana (Team Jayco AlUla), Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) e Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech): thanks to the forcing of theUAE Team Emirates, who gradually played his cards Jan Christen, Finn Fisher Black, Marc Hirschi e Adam Yates. There is only one left in front Pavel Shivakov (UAE Team Emirates), who with 48,5 km to go launches the attack Tadej pogacar (UAE Team Emirates): behind him Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny) ed Enric Mas Nicolau (Movistar Team) try to increase their pace. The choice turns out to be wise to avoid an overrev, but not to keep up with pogacar, which insists on its action in descent, where evenepoel he frees himself from the company of But e Van EetveltThe Belgian tries to recover something in the flat section, which on paper seems favourable: in fact pogacar shows some signs of fatigue with 21km to go, when the road climbs slightly, but he has an advantage of 1'30 ''. An advantage that continues to grow to the point that the Slovenian appears on the first ramps of the climb of San Fermo della Battaglia (5 km with an average slope of 7%) with a margin of 2'30 '' su evenepoelThe latter consoles himself with second place while pogacar, arrived beyond 3' first, he goes to collect yet another triumph of his amazing season that has come to an end today. The only thing missing from the podium roll call is the third step, which goes to Julius Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), good at recovering from the rear on the final climb and giving theItaly a smile that was unexpected in some ways.

Order of arrival Giro di Lombardia 2024

1) Tadej Pogacar (UAD) in 6h04'58''

2) Remco Evenepoel (SOQ) +3'16''

3) Giulio Ciccone (LTK) +4'31''

4) Ion Izagirre (COF) +4'34''

5) Enric Mas (MOV) +4'34''

6) Pavel Sivakov (UAD) +4'34''

7) Lennert Van Eetvelt (LTD) +4'34''

8) Neilson Powless (EFE) +4'58''

9) Davod Gaudu (GFC) +4'58''

10) Xandro Meurisse (ADC) +4'58''