Filippo Ganna sailed to an easy victory in stage 10\u2019s individual time trial at the Giro d\u2019Italia on Tuesday,. The pre-race favourite, Jonas Vingegaard, failed in his bid to take the overall lead as Afonso Eul\u00e1lio battled hard to keep the pink jersey.<\/p>\n
No one could come close to Ganna, a time trial specialist who completed the flat, 42km (26-mile) route along the Tuscan coast from Viareggio to Massa in 45min 53sec. Ganna had little to worry about while waiting for confirmation of his eighth Giro stage win \u2013 seven of those have come in time trials.<\/p>\n
Ganna\u2019s Netcompany-Ineos teammate Thymen Arensman finished second, 1min 54sec behind. The Dutchman had five seconds to spare over the Frenchman R\u00e9mi Cavagna (Groupama-FDJ United) who finished third. Vingegaard (Visma\u2013Lease a Bike) was three minutes down on Ganna in 13th place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have done an amazing job last winter to prepare for time trials,\u201d Ganna said afterwards. \u201cAnd it can be seen also with the GC riders of the team, look at Thymen in second place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Portugal\u2019s Eul\u00e1lio took the pink jersey after stage five and began the day 2min and 24sec ahead of Vingegaard. The Bahrain-Victorious rider dug deep to limit the damage and still holds a 27sec overall lead.<\/p>\n
Afonso Eul\u00e1lio in action during the time trial. Photograph: Marco Alpozzi\/LaPresse\/AP<\/p>\n
In the only time trial of this year\u2019s race, Vingegaard was expected to seize control. While he is now within touching distance of Eul\u00e1lio, the Portuguese rider defied the odds and his own pre-stage predictions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not expecting a good time trial,\u201d Eul\u00e1lio had said. \u201cIt\u2019s the worst possible type of stage for a lightweight climber like me. It\u2019s going to be suffering.\u201d Suffer he did, but with the finish in sight, Eul\u00e1lio found an extra gear to power to the line. \u201cThe pink jersey is giving me strength,\u201d he said after Tuesday\u2019s stage.<\/p>\n
Arensman was the big mover in the general classification, up from sixth spot to third overall, and is one-and-a-half minutes behind Vingegaard, while Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM) slipped from 35 seconds off the Dane to almost two minutes adrift.<\/p>\n
Gall had been Vingegaard\u2019s main rival on the recent summit finishes, where the favourite won two stages, and the Austrian will now need to push hard once more to recoup his losses.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s stage 11 is a 195km ride from Porcari to Chiavari, lacking any categorised climbs but with a number of hills to negotiate close to the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filippo Ganna sailed to an easy victory in stage 10\u2019s individual time trial at the Giro d\u2019Italia on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-682005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}