A sprint straight out of the UAE Tour playbook<\/p>\n
The script of the stage followed a familiar pattern to the opening two days \u2013 though thankfully, this time, no crash disrupted the finale. The breakaway featured Manuele Tarozzi (Bardiani CSF 7 Saber), Alessandro Tonelli and the ever-present Diego Pablo Sevilla (Polti VisitMalta), who made it three breakaways out of three and claimed the Category 2 KOM at Borovets Pass, the stage\u2019s only climb, further strengthening his grip on the Maglia Azzurra.<\/p>\n
The finale, on long, wide, straight roads \u2013 \u201cUAE Tour style,\u201d as several riders had described it \u2013 proved far tighter than expected. The three escapees made life difficult for the peloton, maintaining a fierce pace almost all the way to Sofia. The catch only came with 600 metres to go, when the peloton\u2019s chase finally overwhelmed them and the sprint trains thundered into action.<\/p>\n
Paul Magnier wins again in Bulgaria<\/p>\n
Unibet Rose Rockets arguably executed the best lead-out, but it was Jonathan Milan who launched first \u2014 only to find the shadow of the Maglia Ciclamino, Paul Magnier, glued to his wheel. On the final cobbled metres, the Frenchman proved strongest once again, while Dylan Groenewegen\u2019s late surge was enough only for third place.<\/p>\n
Monday now brings the first rest day, allowing the race to travel back from Bulgaria before the Giro resumes in Calabria with Cosenza\u2013Catanzaro. And in the Maglia Rosa, Thomas Silva (XDS Astana) will still be leading the race after a trouble-free day in pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sprint straight out of the UAE Tour playbook The script of the stage followed a familiar pattern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-662031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}