SPRINT MASTERCLASS! 🔥 | Giro D'Italia Stage 3 Race Highlights | Eurosport Cycling

[Music] stage three of the Jud Italia should have finally been WN for the sprinters they' had to suffer hang in and be ready for their first opportunity P pogacha was in the pink jersey for the first time in his career and the Riders would leave novada heading 166 kilometers across the PO plane and finishing a little further up the road St finish in Fano just one king of the mountains climb an Intero two intermediate Sprints a two star stage but a tricky is finale a late intermediate Sprint at around 20ks to go and then there couple of Rises to the line and when the flag was dropped at the Brooks was the new war of the white jersey fiorelli still in the Maia chiclamino and in the end it would be Danny Martinez looking after the king of the Mad Jersey for its owner T Bacha when the flag dropped nothing happened nobody attacked 20 of the 22 teams having Sprint opportunities and none of the others deciding to have a go so it' be a calm day until leilon calan decided quite like some mountains points there were three on offer he took David balerini with him but after that both cease to be interested in proceedings cjan the first to sit up by leini stretching his legs and they'd soon both be back in the bunch it seemed as though it would be a calm rest of the afternoon oh we were wrong approaching the intermediate Sprint just over 88 km to go points up for grabs the sprinters involved and they would Sprint for it maiai Camino up for grabs it was a real opportunity for Jonathan Milan and Jonathan Milan defending champion in that competition W comfortably in Sprint number one but after that Sprint a few Riders including feli decided to keep the move going and suddenly we had 24 of the fastest Riders on the planet having almost a minute and a half on the Pelon most big sprinters were there and there weren't too many riders to get organized and Chase in the pelan it will be one long line behind Pati Keta would Chase assisted by Marv star UAE doing a little bit Bahrain too but there'd be a further split in the bunch problems for leel Trek and juampe Lopez Luke Platt was distanced as well this was a crazy day when in fact it should have been on paper a boring day H the brooksmith to split as well and his teammates were burying themselves to bring him back valter and fond de doing a brilliant job those two groups in the peltin came back together and the whole race would soon come back together 44 K remained when things suddenly calmed down briefly again how much had it taken out to the sprinters well they weren't sprinting for the final intermediate Sprint Ben Swift T poacha and garite Thomas took the rest of the points bonus seconds as well so pachad extending his lead by just 3 seconds in the GC to over garite Thomas who took the one all eyes then on the sprinters but at least it should have been traveling at Fast Pace in fact Furious Pace as a few spots of rain were starting to fall into the final seven K upper Cly with 4 km to go pogacha found himself close to the front and when Mikel Honore decided to go pogacha naturally could not resist garant Thomas realized he had to react he could as well three case to go honor at the front pogacha with him Thomas on and a terrific Trier it was all down pressure on the sprinters again Honore soon couldn't hack the pace though Pacha was flying garant Thomas just holding on and sitting on the wheel he decided to ride as well and both seemingly had a brilliant opportunity they take it into the final kilometer behind there was a big gap but there was still more than enough commitment 450 M to go turned to 400 300 came along and then Pacha and Thomas would finally be caught Pacha proving that he can't do it each and every day he certainly won't stop trying the rest though battled it out and it was a battle royale won by Tim merer when Jonathan Milan looked as he was going to get it meder Victorious at the jro again his first Grand Tour since he joined sudal Quick Step and Med Le in fine form his first jro stage had finished in novada his second finishing down the road after having started in the same town on the throw from merer ahead of Milan and gmai a brilliant brilliant stage so merer taking the victory Milan in second place Skai third down to Bean's fourth London fifth more spraying of the bro for the pink clad pachad he's been involved in every finale so far and this is the general classification Bacha 46 seconds ahead of Thomas Martinez in third Rubio at the Brooks Fortunato Lopez H nenko and Chavez in the top 10 next stage goes along the route of Milano Sano for the most part of it towards the end hitting Savona and going over to Capo Mele finishing in Andora no not that one this one in Italy should be a Sprint but then again we should know not to expect what's written on the paper you'll be able to watch stage four in the entirety of the jit Italia on Euros sport recovery plus and if you're watching in the US on max [Music] [Music]

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Length: 6min 54sec (414 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2024