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On the banks of the Adriatic, there is a city-museum that recalls a unique cyclist with a fatal end.

Cesenatico is a great tribute to its most illustrious citizen, the long-awaited

Marco Pantani

, whose name evokes misfortune, but also spectacle, passion for cycling, and impossible challenges.

16 years have passed since his death and his memory lives on in a country that was forever orphaned by myth, so he never tires of remembering it.

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That was the objective of the Giro with the stage this Thursday, starting and finishing in Cesenatico, after having already evoked his memory with the arrival on Wednesday in Rimini, the city where he died.

The result was a stage without stabbing among the favorites of the general classification, but with a great show, the result of a route covered with hills and a meteorology that invited the epic.

If there was a real protagonist, it was the rain, which forced all the cyclists to end the day with sleeves and a raincoat.

Everyone except

Almeida

, who tears off another page of the calendar with the 'pink jersey' on.

The glory was not for any of the favorites, but for

Jhonatan Narváez

, who confirmed two trends with his triumph.

One, that the Giro is the fetish race of Ecuadorians, after the final triumph of

Richard Carapaz

last year and the two sets for the country in this edition, this Thursday and Etna at the hands of

Jonathan Caicedo

.

And the other, the ability of Ineos to reinvent itself after the forced abandonment of

Thomas

: they already have three stages (the two for

Ganna

and that of Narváez) and two second places (

Castroviejo

and

Puccio

) in just over half a Giro.

Positive for Covid from various motorists

The only major shock of the day came from the confirmation that several motorists had tested positive for covid, although the Giro clarified that they were logistics professionals, without contact with the 'bubble' of cyclists.

It was

Domenico Pozzovivo's

NTT who sought to strike the blow

, assuming the task of hardening the stage to the maximum.

In reality, the South Africans succeeded, but it was useless, since their leader did not take time from any of his opponents in the general.

There was terrain to do it, yes, because the stage, without major ascents, included a dozen hills.

Terrain conducive to escapes like the one that Narváez culminated, after his last companion, the Ukrainian

Mark Padun

suffered a breakdown 24 kilometers from the finish line.

The victory was always in the break because the peloton consented without qualms, giving it a maximum advantage of 13 minutes.

It never got below four and the finish line was 8:25, proof of the hardness of the day.

The NTT, a team condemned to disappearance at the end of this unusual season, gave everything to have rock on the stage, scrapping the group of favorites to 15 units.

But Pozzovivo's team gives for what it gives, it is not exactly a dream squad, and it never had enough strength to take down any first sword.

The Italian himself tried to tighten the nuts on the last hill, but he could not detach himself from the favorites either, with Almeida, well supported by

Honoré, Knox and Masnada

, always attentive to any movement that might occur.

But the biggest moves were getting down to the car to get warm clothes.

It was a dog day.

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