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  • Narration This is how we live the stage

In the Marmolada,

Gianni Bugno

climbed with his eyes lost, like an automaton, defeated by the capitalistic superiority of

Indurain

.

In those walls he understood that he would always be in the shadow of the giant of Villaba.

After his withdrawal, he confessed that he had to resort to a psychologist to overcome the fear he had of

Miguelón

.

Those endless ramps exposed weaknesses shamelessly.

This Saturday the Dolomite summit buried the ambitions of

Mikel Landa

and

Richard Carapaz

.

The Basque snorted as well, cursing his cruel fate.

The Ecuadorian, busted on the penultimate step.

Goodbye to the

pink

jersey , snatched by

Jai Hindley

, the Australian who will be crowned this Sunday in medieval Verona.

The new leader imposed his agile pedaling in the final stretch of the Marmolada, the hardest of the 12-kilometre climb.

In just 5,000 meters, the Giro was broken to the benefit of the Bora runner, who settled accounts with his own story.

A couple of years ago he lost the Giro on the last day, to the benefit of Britain's

Tao Geoghengan

.

Cycling, like life itself, always offers a second chance.

Hindley sealed his wound with the Giro on the long straights of the Marmolada.

There where Landa ascended with a contorted face, with his mouth half-open, taking in a breath to ease his fatigue.

Losing meters with the Australian and with Carapaz.

A tricky image, because the Ecuadorian, impotent, moved away from the leader of Bora's ranks.

In addition, in his attempt not to lose much income he collapsed in three

tormenting kilometers

.

The captain of the Ineos gave in like never before.

He, an example of regularity, went down with a crash.

Even Landa was overcome in the last assault on the dolomite summit.

The Basque gave 50 seconds to Hindley, and Carapaz, 1.28.

Sunday's chrono

Sunday's time trial (17.1 kilometres), barring misfortune, will not decide first place.

There will be more uncertainty for the second place, with a little less than half a minute of rent for the Ecuadorian against the Spanish.

The third place on the podium as a consolation for

landismo

, that movement of failed expectations.

A religion that does not captivate Jai Hindley.

Nor did he hook

Alessandro Covi

, winner of the queen stage.

Without

Joao Almeida

, the UAE played their cards with the Italian adventurer, who got into the good breakaway of the day and who also had the privilege of first crowning the Pordoi, the

Coppi summit

of this dying Giro.

The second was the Slovenian

Domen Novak

, companion of Landa and who did not even serve as an advance guard or bridge for a Landa, resigned to his fate.

"I have not been well. I could not squeeze my team on the last climb. At least I have known how to regulate the effort and I have been able to pass Carapaz", said the man from Vitoria at the end of the stage.

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