Après la victoire de Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates XRG) vendredi, la 8e étape s’annonçait comme une journée de transition. Avec plusieurs ascensions et un final vallonné, le profil convenait aux baroudeurs du 108e Giro d’Italia. Ce sont d’ailleurs des échappées qui se sont jouées la victoire à Castelraimondo. Alors que Romain Bardet (Team Picnic PostNL) se trouvait à l'avant, c'est Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla) qui s'est imposé en solitaire. L'Australien a réalisé un numéro de plus de 40 kilomètres. Présent dans l'échappée, Diego Ulissi s'empare du Maillot Rose pour 12 secondes devant son équipier Lorenzo Fortunato.
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00:30climbing climbing now they can relaxing a little bit as you can see immediately
00:39move pedersen move up front is a very fine descender he's a brilliant descender isn't he
00:44as pedersen one of the best very best in the world right now of course he'll roll over the
00:49line in first place a pedersen and pick up those maximum points at roca fluvioli the first line in
00:55the tarmac the first opportunity to score points in the classifications goes to maz pedersen in the
01:02malia ciclamino who extends his lead over everybody else building up a huge big anzoli riding on the
01:10front close now to the top of the climb should be tonelli's points yeah tonally definitely is not
01:15interested into the key i'm just classification as we check who's frigo is it yeah michael frigo just off
01:25the front from
01:45have a couple of riders each uh it's gonna be the case of them like sacrificing for
02:00one for the other uh otherwise this group you know it's uh you know it's not really like
02:06they everybody when it's too large everybody's trying to save a little bit more in terms of energy
02:11i'm a little bit surprised to see florenzo fortunato take the uh sprint there
02:19now that second group is out of sight at the moment
02:24they are beginning to lose a bit of contact at least on that bit of the road
02:28so at the front of the race fortunato is there tarotzi ulissi
02:32arieta from ue van bala and welco kelderman bad day is looking good today luke plapp is the only
02:38jake who alluded rider there cohen bauman's off the back damien hausen david a formula
02:43marco frigo georg steinhauser and nicola podon left hand side there and roman bad day just as you
02:49identified is actually going to make life difficult here for the lens of fortunato fortunato gets on the
02:54wheel of the frenchman bad day looks round checks where's that finishing line has fortunato got a kick
02:59that can come past bar day he's handily placed there in the slipstream if he can get round him
03:04where's the line now fortunato sprinting for the line against bar day and it's going to be mighty
03:10close and fortunato fair play to him gets there ahead of roman bad day takes those 40 points and
03:16bad day will have to settle for second and 18. wow he had to go deep there yeah there was uh
03:30uh and if you feel like you can close down the gap on them uh that's the way to go and now are
03:40it actually now is probably two fine climbers um i i would be surprised if but they won't try anything
03:47um but uh they had the chance now to bridge back and try as a riet is bridging finally bridging back to the
03:55to the duo nearly there isn't he he looks around in surprise almost to see what's happening
04:01where's steinhauser gone clap ah look perhaps come round steinhauser steinhauser is beginning to wilt
04:06under the pressure he's still there but luke plapp has just sprung around him um when the gap was
04:12close enough for him with one big effort to get across to the front of the race so that's
04:16that's harsh on georg steinhauser but luke plapp has played georg steinhauser masterfully there
04:20yeah yeah body language of uh stay now certain is gibison a couple hundred meters to go for luke plapp
04:28who is just off the front of a three rider chase group of wilco kelderman eagle arieto who's rejoined
04:35them and uh diego ulyssi now at the very top of the climb it doesn't ease down
04:50very very steep uh descent with a nice and not unusual
05:20drawn vision of uh luke plapp as he is almost on top of the red book kilometer
05:28it's uh it was placed on a vet on top of a very very hard little kicker
05:35definitely demanding for plapp as he's now at 55 seconds ahead of uh arieta but in nasty climb as
05:42you can see is like still climbing good but this gives you an idea how steep it is and from here on
05:48is going to be basically all descent or flat to the very end the the last 500 meters uh gently going
05:55happily won't be won't bother him so he's about to take another right-handed turn and it'll kick up the
06:01road ahead of him ever so slightly and then it's a left-hander and into the finishing straight here we
06:06come heading towards that finish line he'll see it ahead of him now and he'll know that it is done he's
06:12uncatchable luke plapp he's come here chosen the stage where the breakaway was nailed on for success
06:18survived a torrid battle to get in the move found himself in the company of 19 other former champions
06:25and great riders and has destroyed the field to win by a handsome margin luke plapp takes the ovation
06:32of the crowd here in castor raimondo hands on the head in disbelief luke plapp a winner of a stage at the grand
06:40tour for his first time in his career and that is what it feels like jake or ulula win luke plapp win
06:46and a win for australia
07:16of australia
07:19of the day
07:25of australia
07:28of australia
07:37of australia
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08:12Mate, every year in Australia, you're a superstar in January.
08:18Today, your first delivery in Europe.
08:21How do you feel?
08:23Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
08:25I still can't believe it, to be honest.
08:26I feel like it's been a long time coming.
08:30Always targeting the Aussie summer and just never been able to make a result happen in Europe.
08:35Last year, I got so close to the Giro so many times.
08:39And for today to happen is so, so special.
08:41We marked it as a stage for a few weeks now.
08:45And then this morning on the bus, we're really, really excited.
08:47So to make it happen, it's a dream come true.
08:50The hard part was to make it happen because the fight was difficult at the beginning.
08:55Jeez, that was unbelievable, the fight to get in the breakaway.
08:59It just kept going and going.
09:01There was one point there where I was following way out so many times, I was almost dropped myself.
09:06And then I gave it one more chance just to try to get in there.
09:08And there was a massive group that made it.
09:10And yeah, it was such a fight to get in the breakaway.
09:13But it was all worth it in the end.
09:15And to have Koon in there as well with me, it was amazing.
09:18What made you go solo with 45 kilometers to go?
09:20I knew I couldn't beat any of them in a sprint.
09:24So I knew I had to go at some stage pretty early.
09:27And yeah, I think the way the racing's been going this year, the long moves have been really,
09:32really successful.
09:33So that was sort of in the back of my mind.
09:34The first one to make a move, I think, always has an advantage.
09:36So I just thought I'd give it a crack.
09:40And to be honest, just wanted a bit of a head start on the descent as well.
09:43So to stay away all the way to the finish is definitely not what I expected.
09:47Is this win sweet because of all the setbacks, the last one in the time trial?
09:52Yeah, for sure.
09:53I think from the Olympics last year to wrist surgery in February are now crashing.
10:00The first TT, it makes everything almost worth it.
10:03I mean, the lows in cycling are super, super low.
10:07And there's a long time between highs.
10:08So to have a result like this is amazing.
10:11Well done, Mike.
10:12Thanks.