Giro d'Italia, Kuss wins in Alleghe. Ciccone third, mocked in the final
Among the top men Jonas Vingegaard controls the lead, while Jay Hindley overtakes Thymen Arensman in third place
The news, really news, is that this time, in the toughest stage of the Giro, Jonas Vingeggard did not win.
Usually, as he has already done four times, in the mountains he does not let anyone escape. But here in Alleghe, in the most fascinating Dolomites, under the Monte Civetta, he preferred to stay calm, controlling with his faithful squires the residual velleities of the other bigs. Mission accomplished, without any particular anxiety.
In fact, the impression is that, if only he had wanted to, he would still have drawn a blank.
But the Fisher King, now in full control of the Giro, is not as fierce as Pogacar. And he occasionally leaves room for others. So much so that the stage was won by his Visma team-mate, the American Sepp Kuss, who was able to catch an exhausted Ciccone with two kilometres to go, and who in the end managed to carve out a respectable third place.
It has to be said that the Abruzzese rider, as is in his character, was fire and brimstone throughout the stage, even managing to gain three of the five GPM of the stage. But on the descent of the Falzarego, before the last ramp towards the finish in Alleghe, Ciccone got into a fight with the Colombian Rubio, guilty of having taken the last GPM from him, which the Abruzzese rider needed to score points.
