Filippo Ganna made it a perfect start to Tirreno-Adriatico with a commanding victory in the opening stage time trial.<\/p>\n
The Italian TT champion set a blistering time of 12 minutes and eight seconds across the 11.5-kilometre course in Lido di Camaiore, moving into the early race lead.<\/p>\n
That effort was enough for victory by 22 seconds over teammate Thymen Arensman. The Dutchman was happy to hand over the hot seat to his fellow Grenadier on a day which saw him put key time into his GC rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Magnus Sheffield came within four tenths of making it a 1-2-3 on the day, eventually setting the fourth fastest time and claiming the white young rider’s jersey.<\/p>\n
After the stage Ganna said: “It’s stage win number five for me in Tirreno and every time is special and complicated to do my best. It’s never easy. Today in the middle of the stage I didn’t feel good, but I kept on chasing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Yesterday I was just focused on today. Tonight we will recover well and then tomorrow I will check the stage finish of tomorrow. I came here to Tirreno without the ambition to [target] the GC, just to do an amazing Tirreno and have the feeling for the Classics. This is a good starting point and now we’ll see in the next few days what we can do in the race.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filippo Ganna made it a perfect start to Tirreno-Adriatico with a commanding victory in the opening stage time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}