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May 16, 2021Egan Bernal arrives alone at the 1,566 meters of Campo Felice and wins the pink jersey. With a forceful action in the last hundred meters of the dirt road that climbs to Rocca di Cambio, the Colombian detaches the others from the group of the best and overtakes the last two survivors of a long-range escape. The

enfant du pays

Giulio Ciccone and the Russian Aleksandr Vlasov

try to keep up with him

, reaching 7 ”; at 10 "there is the Belgian Remco Evenepoel with the Irish Daniel Martin, then Damiano Caruso at 12".



The ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia, from Castel di Sangro to Campo Felice, of 158 km, with an overall difference in height of 3,400 meters, causes a reversal in the general classification, with Bernal in the pink: at 15 "Evenpoel, at 21" Vlasov , at 36 "Ciccone, at 43" the former leader, the Hungarian Attila Valter.



Apennine fraction entirely in Abruzzo, with four mountain Grand Prix: Passo Godi, 1,556 meters, second category; Forca Caruso, 1,107 meters, third category; Ovindoli, 1,457 meters, second category, in addition to the arrival in Campo Felice, first category, with the last 1,600 meters in dirt with slopes of 7-8%, with peaks of 16%. In the end, a bit of rain also fell.



Stage animated by seventeen runners on the run: Giovanni Visconti, Filippo Zana, Matteo Fabbro, Diego Ulissi, the French Tony Gallopin, Geoffrey Bouchard, Nicolas Edet, the Argentine Eduardo Sepulveda, the Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez, the Dutch Koen Bouwman and Bauke Mollema , the Portuguese Ruben Guerreiro, the Australian Michael Storer, the British Simon Carr, the New Zealander George Bennett, the Colombian Einer Rubio, the Estonian Tanel Kangert. The patrol reaches a maximum advantage of 3'30 ”, then on the final climbs it breaks down.



Bouchard and Carr try, then the Frenchman tries alone while Bouwman, Storer and Mollema return. The last to surrender are Bouchard and Bouwman. The group, pulled by an extraordinary Gianni Moscon, returns to the final and Bernal flies towards the final success.



Now the 139 km from L'Aquila to Foligno.