Démare beats a cursed Sagan in the 'photo finish'

This is the Giro and until now it was also the Giro de los misfortunes.

On the first day,

had to pack his bags after a silly crash in the time trial.

In the second, the stomach sent home his partner

, candidate for revelation of the race.

And in the third, a jerrycan ruined the options of the great favorite,

.

The Welshman managed to reach the finish line, in a way that hours later turned out to be heroic: he had a broken pelvis.

So evidently Thomas no longer started on stage four and the rest were warned of the dangers of this strange 'Corsa Rosa'.

Men like

or

suffered it in the first person on Tuesday

, who fell to the ground, victims of a rebel drum like the Welshman.

They are not men of the general classification, but it hurts them just as if they were, of course.

At least they could continue without problems, that seen what is seen is not little.

They were both lucky that the stage was relatively accessible, with no other danger than the thick fog with which Sicilia dismissed the peloton until next year.

Or the next one, we'll see.

, the strongest of the escapees, even had trouble seeing the road while ascending the only difficulty of the day, Portella Mandrazzi, a very long climb, of about 30 kilometers, but very stretched at 4% on average.

The bonus and the 'pink'

It wasn't ground for the remaining favorites to get hurt.

The

,

,

and

lived a calm day, although the leader

, to whom

, even in time, wanted to give a coup d'état by stinging a bonus in the intermediate sprint.

The Ecuadorian, ambitious, the play did not go well and in fact the still 'pink jersey' stung him for a couple of seconds to reinforce his leadership.

By then

Bora

had already made the race selection, hardening the pace on the climb to cut through the purest sprinters.

He did it with

and

, almost the only Colombians in the peloton, who are suffering uphill, but not with

, who clenched her teeth and managed to rejoin the group after giving up a bit of ground.

Little harvest for the work the German team did, sometimes aided by Nibali's playful Trek.

Jul 10, 2019

The fact is that everything was consecrated to a traditional 'volata', after a dangerous approach, with several very wet corners in the final two kilometers.

Pure emotion,

,

and Sagan entered the finish line almost at the same time.

We had to wait a long time to confirm that the victory had been the French, who maintains the good form that he had shown in the alternative calendar to the Tour, ahead of the Slovak (second) and the Italian (third).

And so Sagan was left again composed and without triumph, a sensation he has not known since July 10 of last year, a world for someone used to collecting them with great ease.

Since then, he has accumulated five second places (there are already two in this Giro), four third, six fourth, six fifth ... Too much for the Slovak, who hopes to redeem himself as of this Thursday, already in the Italian peninsula.

This Wednesday will be the stage for the roosters.

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