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09 October 2020With a long sprint on the Brindisi straight, Arnaud Démare captures his third victory on the roads of the Giro d'Italia, after two winning sprints at Villafrancs Tirrena in the fourth stage and in Matera in the sixth.
The French sprinter resisted Peter Sagan's comeback attempt and made his seventh stage, from Matera to Brindisi, for 143 km.
Third Australian Michael Matthews.
"I have an extraordinary team, at the beginning there were many difficulties, but my team allowed me to always stay ahead. I interpreted the sprint to the fullest", the warm comment of Démare, increasingly cyclamen jersey, to the RaiSport microphones.
In the general classification, the Portuguese João Almedia is always the pink jersey, with 43 ”over the Spanish Pello Bilbao and 48” over the Dutchman Wilco Kelderman.
Vincenzo Nibali still fifth at 1'07 ", sixth at 1'11" Domenico Pozzovivo.
Dutchman Steven Kruijswick (at 1'21 "undermines the Danish Jakob Fuglsang in seventh place, who becomes eighth at 1'25". The British Simon Yates always 21st at 3'52.
Very fast lap, run at 51.234 km / h Course without particular roughness. At -45 km fall in the middle of the group, fortunately without serious consequences. The sprinter teams prepare the sprint for their captains and the group presents itself in compact ranks.
Now the eighth stage, from Giovinazzo in Vieste, 200 km. Route mostly flat, with the 747 meters of Monte Sant'Angelo in the middle and then road with some ups and downs.