Un peu décevant en ce début de Giro d'Italia, Juan Ayuso tape du poing sur la table en remportant ce vendredi la 7e étape, lors de la première arrivée au sommet de ces trois semaines, à Tagliacozzo ! Dans un final très punchy, l'Espagnol s'est imposé devant son coéquipier de chez UAE team Emirates XRG, Isaac Del Toro, pour venir chercher son premier succès sur un Grand Tour. Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) a lui terminé 3e, devant un décevant Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), 4e, qui s'empare tout de même du maillot Rose de leader. Grosse déception côté Français, puisque David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) et Romain Bardet (Picnic PostNL), tous les deux pris dans une chute, ont perdu gros.
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00:00Simon and Adam Yates, Carapaz, Pidcock, Caruso, Piconsoli, Ciccone, Bernal, Bardet and Gordieu.
00:09It's a big list.
00:10Yeah, it's a big list and today the last climb is demanding but the steep section isn't too long.
00:17So it's fair to say we could expect some gaps in between the GC contenders but not too much.
00:23So it will be very interesting to see the approach, especially...
00:28Davide Formolo as well.
00:30Good to see him on the offensive from Movistar.
00:33Often see him towards the front actually in the neutralised rollouts.
00:35Davide Formolo, he seems habitually to pop up by the race director's car.
00:40And it's straight uphill now.
00:42The flag drops.
00:43Everyone's a little bit inhibited and the first attack comes from VF group Bardiani.
00:50It's a rather predictable attack and predictable move.
00:53And so far no one's showing any real inclination to go after him.
00:56Although you can see Driste Bont there slowly revving up by the looks of it.
01:01It's him going after, taking another teammate with him as well.
01:08Yeah, it might be.
01:10And again, UA team member, it's part of it.
01:14That will almost guarantee a reaction from Red Bull Borderhandsgrave, shutting it down, I would imagine.
01:19I think it's Brandon McNulty who's got a cross.
01:20As Lorenzo Fortunato then goes in search of those nine points.
01:23Diego Ulyssi riding on to try and deny Sylvain Monique any chance of coming past him.
01:29But Monique up against an Astana duo here.
01:33Lorenzo Fortunato, Ulyssi almost acting as a backmarker.
01:36It's quite interesting that actually.
01:38Ulyssi's just looking out for where Monique is, doing a really good job for his teammate
01:41and guaranteeing that Monique is boxed out of second place and only picks up.
01:49This is continuing pedaling, but definitely, I would expect.
01:55Oh, is that Pedersen?
01:57I haven't seen him drop.
01:58Is that the Malia Rosa?
01:59He was in the peloton.
02:00He is him.
02:01There he is.
02:01So, Mass Pedersen might be going down in a blaze of glory,
02:05but is fully intending to make a big show of it.
02:08So, the Malia Rosa himself is going on the offensive to try to get across to Jay Vine.
02:13Chapeau, what a way to defend that jersey for one final time.
02:17Yeah.
02:18Clearly, it's such a fine form yesterday.
02:22He didn't contest it in the sprint.
02:24He was calling the crash and then was it for yesterday for the Malia Rosa.
02:29So, I definitely would be eager to contest him.
02:32Well, I'm not sure about Tarotti on his wheel in the light blue.
02:37He's glued to Tonelli's wheel.
02:41And looks like you're right.
02:42Alessandro Tonelli, unopposed, goes over the line in first place to add to his tally.
02:48Another 15, sorry, 12 points going his way.
02:53Yeah, so it was Tonelli, Tarozzi and Scarone.
02:55Pulled double.
02:56It's pulled double.
02:57Scarone is a few places back.
02:59And a big effort there from Manoelli Tarozzi.
03:02Head bobbing to try and out sprint.
03:03Pulled double, but double's going to get there.
03:05Takes 18 points.
03:06Tarozzi in second place.
03:06Christian Scarone in third.
03:08Looking around and checking where Tonelli is.
03:10150 meter from the top of the climb.
03:12It's pulled double close immediately in the gap on him.
03:14It's a long way out from Manoelli Tarozzi.
03:16Can he hold him off?
03:17Still got 100 meters to go.
03:19And it slightly flattens off towards the top.
03:22But pull double made that look very easy.
03:24He looks to the left, just checks again.
03:26And he's beaten Tarozzi for the second time.
03:28In a very easy manner.
03:30So, again, we got...
03:33Accelerates to the front.
03:35Alessandro Tonelli.
03:36Nobody is looking to take those points off him.
03:38And he'll pick up 12 more.
03:40So, as you were for Tonelli, he adds 24 points today to his total in the Inter-Giro.
03:46Which, at the moment, he is running away with as a competition.
03:49As Pedersen has said, as he hits the front now, and helps Dan Hull set the pace.
03:55And that tells you everything that you need to know about the discussion we were just having, actually.
03:59If he was intent on really believing he could defend that jersey today,
04:03Maz Pedersen would not be riding on the front.
04:05So, he has had the support of his team to get to this point in the Giro d'Italia.
04:09And now, henceforth, I mean, he's going to be looking for stage wins.
04:13Absolutely.
04:19I mean, he's going to be looking for stage wins.
04:49To commit behind.
04:58And I don't know who he's willing to commit that much.
05:02So, now he's...
05:03That could change fairly quickly if a team like UAE does commit with their talent and their dedicated purpose.
05:10But, if we look at the bunch there, you can see it's all flat and wide across the front,
05:14which suggests that no one team is...
05:16To the back, just staying up towards the front of this group.
05:18Looking for the opportunity to come off the wheel, if he can, and take those six bonus seconds.
05:24There's the arch in front.
05:261.23 the advantage, which is precisely Paul Double's disadvantage in the general classification.
05:32So, now it tips back and he is no longer the virtual leader of the race.
05:38And he's not going to get the seconds either.
05:39So, eschewing the effort required to go after those, it's Tarozzi from Tonelli with Leimreza in third place, which is a bit surprising.
05:48Yeah.
05:48Arm warmers.
05:50And here we are at the back of the peloton, Mats Pedersen.
05:52That's nice, isn't it?
05:53Yeah.
05:53Really nice moment, Luke Platt there, just congratulating Mats Pedersen.
05:56To the left and he became, not narrower, but steeper.
06:00And Zroglic is a little bit isolated, but he's well positioned right behind Baran Victorious and alongside one Ayuso.
06:10That is it.
06:11The climbing is pretty much done.
06:13The road is going to flatten that.
06:14Bernal doggedly sticking to the wheel of the Mexican.
06:16Giacconi on his wheel.
06:19As Ayuso is still leading the way up.
06:22As Bernal is screaming things, I don't think he quite had the legs.
06:26He's prized him clear.
06:27Juan Ayuso now has gone clear.
06:29Ayuso motoring clear of the field.
06:32Juan Ayuso of UAE team Emirates bursts into life of the Giro d'Italia.
06:36An explosive acceleration.
06:38He's going to take the win and he's going to win with a big gap.
06:41That is hugely impressive from Juan Ayuso.
06:44What a statement he's made here.
06:46He waited.
06:47He was patient.
06:48And when he delivered the blow, it was an absolute killer move from Juan Ayuso.
06:52A winner of the Giro d'Italia.
06:54The battle for second place is going to go the way of his teammate, Isaac Del Toro.
06:59It's all UAE at the finish line.
07:01Bernal in a brilliant third place.
07:03Roglic out of the bonus seconds.
07:05He said that Roglic was drifting back a little bit.
07:07He decided it was time to give it a go and it dropped from the wheel Bernal.
07:11And it was, it is a one-two for UAE team Emirates.
07:15You want to use a winning the stage and very likely to be wearer of the pink jersey.
07:20Let's see.
07:21With the bonuses and the gaps in between Roglic, who seems like quite at ease at the moment.
07:26I don't know, I've seen a smile on his face.
07:28And Isaac Del Toro came home with a second place as seems like Ciccone was third, Bernal.
07:34And Roglic actually was out of the picture, but he reappeared to be at the same time as Isaac Del Toro.
07:43So in the very first chasing group, we could say.
07:45My feeling is, my feeling is that Juan Ayuso hasn't quite got a big enough gap.
07:51He would have had an eight, had to win with an eight-second gap over Primoz Roglic.
07:55And I don't think it's an eight-second gap.
07:57Certainly a gap.
07:58And it does take ten seconds for the win.
08:00It's going to be very close between Del Toro himself, who could even be in pink.
08:30And I don't think it's going to be very close between Del Toro himself, who could even be in pink.
09:00And your first Grand Tour victory, do you feel that it's a big step in your career today, a big step in your Giro d'Italia?
09:21Yes, for sure.
09:22I mean, it's my fourth Grand Tour, especially in the Tubotas Espana as I raced.
09:29Sometimes I was very close, but yeah, I never managed to pull it off.
09:34And to finally do it today, my first Giro d'Italia is something super special.
09:38And I will always remember.
09:40Have you improvised what you have done today, this acceleration at the end?
09:44I mean, I knew that I only had to do one attack.
09:50I couldn't mess around and do one or two or three.
09:54And in these finals, which are super explosive, you only have one bullet to waste.
09:59So I let others start attacking before.
10:02And then when I saw my distance, I went full gas and into the finish.
10:07Second on GC, only four seconds behind Primoz Roglic.
10:11Is that the ideal situation at this stage of the Giro?
10:15Yeah, I mean, it was really important today to not only get to win, but, you know, leave with a good feeling that, you know,
10:23to try and recover that time I lost in the time trial.
10:27So for sure it's something, you know, it gives a lot of confidence for the upcoming days.
10:33And yeah, I hope tomorrow we save the day.
10:36Then Siena comes, which is a very, very difficult day for us, for the GC guys.
10:41So I hope I can arrive to the rest day in the front.
10:46Muchas gracias.