Arnaud Démare wins again on the Giro -

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Second success in three days for Arnaud Démare: the French champion dominated in power the sprint at the finish of the 6th stage of the Tour of Italy, Thursday, in Matera, in the south of the boot.

" That's wonderful !

Exclaimed Démare, beaming after the third success of his career in the Giro.

“Today, I was able to raise my arms,” added the Picard of the Groupama-FDJ team, who had won extremely narrowly on Tuesday at Villafranca Tirrena on the last day in Sicily.

This time, the gap has reached several lengths between the champion of France, imperial, and his followers, the Australian Michael Matthews and the Italian Fabio Felline.

Arnaud Démare wins for the second time in the sprint on this Giro!

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- L'Équipe channel (@lachainelequipe) October 8, 2020

In a rising false flat sprint, the Frenchman started the sprint in the shaded straight line of the city of Basilicata.

Previously, he had held the shock in the small climb located at two kilometers, climbed at a high pace by a teammate of Slovakian Peter Sagan (Matteo Fabbri).

“It was going up very strongly, I lost a few places but I did not panic,” said the winner who then took the wheel of the Astana leading to Felline.

In the end, the work of the Bora team, which had remotely controlled the day's breakaway, proved to be unproductive.

Sagan finished eighth in the sprint, without being able to defend his chances against Démare, in full confidence.

"Win early"

“I want to win early in the Giro, after that it will be easier,” warned the number one French sprinter, who now has 73 wins to his name since his professional debut in 2011, already in Marc Madiot's team.

For the current season, it is its 12th success, which can be improved completely in view of its brilliant vigor.

Marc Madiot does it again thanks to Arnaud Démare's second victory on the Giro!

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- L'Équipe channel (@lachainelequipe) October 8, 2020

Luckily for the sprinters, the headwind thwarted the peloton's progress on the undulating course leading to Matera, the city of white houses in Basilicata, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

No rider risked an attack after the end of the breakaway whose last survivor, Australian James Whelan, was joined before the last 13 kilometers.

A regular on the podiums, Démare had never won twice in the same grand tour.

On Friday, the sprinters have another chance in the 7th stage between Matera and Brindisi.

The 143-kilometer route, flat or downhill, ends in the center of the city of Puglia, once a port of embarkation to the east.

For Démare, this is a new opportunity to win and, incidentally, to consolidate its position at the top of the points classification.

At the start of the Giro, the Frenchman insisted on the priority given to victory.

Thursday, Marc Madiot, who was speaking on the L'Equipe channel broadcasting the Giro in France, said nothing else: “The most important thing is to put the ball to the bottom.

The cyclamen jersey, if we get it at the end of the day, it's great but we want to win ”.

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