A tie in historic time: Hindley and Geoghegan will play the Giro in Milan

After 85 hours on the bike, spread over 20 stages of wear and tear, the Giro less orthodox than ever is heading towards the resolution dreamed of for the final time trial in Milan.

It will be attended by two men with a chance of victory,

, tied at the top of the general classification.

Yes, tied, with exactly the same time, a beautiful anomaly that multiplies the excitement of the last stage, in which one of these two young cyclists, whom nobody expected in this situation, will be crowned the winner of this exciting Giro d'Italia .

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It will be Hindley who leaves the last to Milan, since the hundredths of the previous time trials made him inherit this Saturday the 'pink jersey' of his partner

, who in Sestriere is out of the fight.

Before him, he will have the difficult challenge of keeping it, since absolute favoritism now falls on Geoghegan, a priori a better time trialist than him, as he has already demonstrated in the two time periods disputed in this Giro.

Relative references in any case, because in none of them did they compete with the pressure they will have this Sunday, nor with the motivation of knowing that it will be all or nothing.

That is why Hindley looked for the tiebreaker, taking a few seconds from Geoghegan in the last of

that closed the alpine triptych of this edition.

But the Australian could never let go of the Briton, despite trying up to four times, and ended up paying for that effort at the finish line, unable to fight Geoghegan for stage victory.

Triumph that involved four bonus seconds.

Before the last climb, Hindley herded him one in the rewarded sprint.

Since their overall deficit was three seconds in favor of the Sunweb, the math brought out the magic: a tie at 85 hours, 22 minutes and 7 seconds.

Bilbao, for the fourth place

This last mountain stage of the Giro was almost a copy of the previous one.

Agnello, Izoard and Montgenèvre could not be climbed, but it did not take the cyclists to put on a wonderful show.

Better written, who provided it was again Rohan Dennis, a splendid engine that has been enough to turn the race upside down.

As he did at Stelvio, when he took the lead, on the second pass through Sestriere, he shattered the group of favorites.

It took him a few meters of hellish pace to be left alone with Hindley and their leader Geoghegan.

Like flies, everyone else fell at a stroke: Kelderman, Bilbao, Almeida, Pozzovivo, Nibali, Konrad ...

There were still 30 kilometers to go to the finish line and only the three of them were in the lead, engulfing those who still resisted from the day's break on their way.

Dennis extended the lead up to 1:45, with the two best overalls on the wheel, thus ruling out Kelderman for victory, whose 'pink jersey' only lasted two days.

Nothing that could not be sensed after his suffering on the day of Stelvio.

As always, the three weeks have been too long for the Dutch cyclist, who, as a lesser evil, will hardly miss third place on the podium.

So out of control was Dennis that at one point Geoghegan had to ask him to slow down.

A sign of weakness to which Hindley was slow to react, probably because the Australian was not too much.

From behind, Almeida was feeding off the three teammates who were falling from the day's escape and finally decided to attack four of the goal, leaving behind Kelderman and Bilbao.

All honor, the Portuguese won the right to fight the Basque for fourth place in the final time trial.

Almeida's move didn't unsettle Geoghegan and Hindley, who were fighting for their own league.

The Australian's movement, which is known to be inferior against the clock, had to come and it did.

In the final 3.5 kilometers, the Sunweb launched four different attacks, but the Ineos responded to all of them, retaining more strength than it appeared.

It was impossible for Hindley to let go of him and also fight for the victory, leading to the most exciting outcome in memory.

The 15.7 kilometers on the way to Milan will solve what the almost 3,500 previous ones have left completely equal.

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