No one could follow, with the Danish Jakob Fuglsang on Sunday’s hardest stage in the race of the Italian stage race Tirreno-Adriatico.
On the hard hilly route left the Astana-dane the other klassementfolk small 25 kilometers from the goal, and not long after he was up by the three remaining udbrydere.
All the way to the target then lay Fuglsang to the front, to the end of the own hand, and drove a terrific man home in the tradition-rich race.
the world championships, he had been inspired to Saturday, he explains in a press release from Astana.
– I dedicate this victory to my former team-mate Michele Scarponi, says the dane about an Italian, who was run down and died in april 2017 during a workout.
yesterday (Saturday, red.) I spoke with his widow on the launch pad, and it inspired me even more to go after the world championships in the race, as Michele loved to run.
On Saturday’s stage had the dane to settle for fourth after a tactical bad run spurt, but he took the most beautiful possible rematch on Sunday.
– As the team did a nice job of pulling udbryderne check, I tried to save as much energy as possible, says Jakob Fuglsang.
– On the final ascent on the penultimate lap of the rundstrækningen I knew that it was the time where I should attack.
a Few minutes before the dane crossed the finish line in Recanati, took teammate Ion Izagirre stage victory on the final stage of Paris-Nice.
It brought the Astana up on the whole 19 victories already in the season, where Fuglsang also now have the ability to make a nice result in the gc in Tirreno-Adriatico with two stages remaining.
He climbed Sunday up in third place in the overall standings, 35 seconds behind leader Adam Yates.
– I’m really happy for the victory, and I will definitely be trying to keep me on the podium, says the dane.
Earlier in the season he finished at the top of the podium in the etapeløbet Andalusia Around, while it was ranked second in the endagsløbet Strade Bianche for good a week ago.
Cycling – 13. mar. 2019 – at. 18:32 Eerie images: Topryttere huber pedestrian down in the large stage races
