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Hence, the weight was on their shoulders to attack the race, with Felix Gall and Thymen Arensman both under one minute away from Hindley, the winner of the 2022 edition.<\/p>\n
A good plan with a missing piece\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hence, after Team Visma | Lease a Bike took over the duties of controlling the stage to set up for a Jonas Vingegaard victory, Red Bull took over the pace in the peloton on the bottom of the climb to Car\u00ec. The German had several men lined up in front with Jai Hindley at the back of the train; but Giulio Pellizzari was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n
Already at Milano-Torino and also stage 14, the Italian rider appeared to do his own race, isolated from his teammates. However this time around he did not have the legs. His own teammates’ pace dropped Pellizzari from the GC group, without noticing. The look of confusion was notable as the Red Bull riders dispersed behind the Visma block; and soon after the TV broadcast would show Pellizzari completely let off the gas. At the finish line, he lost over 18 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Our plan today was to gain time on our direct rivals Felix Gall and Thymen Arensmann, so we wanted to lead on the final climb. We did that, but at one point Giulio said he wasn\u2019t feeling well. There was a brief discussion, and Giulio himself said \u2018keep going, ride for Jai’,” P\u00f6mer described.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were very optimistic after stage 14 because he was able to keep his problems under control there. We were also optimistic that he would be back at full strength after the rest day, and we were a bit surprised that wasn\u2019t the case today. Now we just have to live with the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n Too much, Pellizzari said<\/p>\n The Italian, winner of the Tour of the Alps just over a month ago, could not hang on to the GC group due to the extremely high pace. It was possible to limit losses and remain in contention for the white jersey and the Top10 most likely, but that was not the option he opted for.<\/p>\n Instead, he should switch to helping the team chase the final podium with Hindley, and potentially chase his first Giro stage win on the final mountainous days of the race.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was flat out from the first kilometer of the climb. It was too far from the finish, and I sat up,\u201d the youngster said in a post-race interview. \u201cLet\u2019s hope I can recover in the coming days. Jai Hindley is still fighting for the podium, and we\u2019ll try to help him.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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