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Primož Roglič added a 3rd victory within the Giro dell’Emilia to his palmares, attacking to go away Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) and Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) in his wake on the Colle della Guardia di San Luca.
On the identical day he introduced his departure from Jumbo-Visma in opposition to the backdrop of the staff’s proposed merger with Soudal-Quickstep, Roglič flew to the end with loads of room to have a good time.
“It is an iconic outdated race, with the San Luca climb, I adore it, and it is at all times nice to complete it off,” stated Roglič. “It was tremendous exhausting, on the finish I simply went for it and I had the legs to complete it off.”
At 204.1 kilometres in size with two vital climbs mid-race and a punchy closing circuit ending on a pointy ascent in San Luca, the Giro dell’Emilia served as one thing of a gown rehearsal for Il Lombardia and attracted most of the high names.
The day’s early breakaway was decreased to 6 riders at first of the Monte Nonascoso after 126 kilometres of racing.
Alex Bogna (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Cristian Scaroni (Astana), Jacopo Mosca (Lidl-Trek), Floris De Tier (Bingoal-WB), Mattia Bais (Eolo Kometa), Emanuele Ansaloni (Technipes) had been the six survivors after Matteo Montefiori (Technipes) and Marcel Camprubí (Q36.5) misplaced contact.
On the climb, Scaroni and Bais attacked because the lead got here all the way down to 45 seconds however could not maintain off the chase and, as they got here into the 4 closing circuits with 41km to go, they had been caught.
The tempo heading into the primary journey up the brutal San Luca climb was practically a full-on lead-out however few had been eager to assault so early. It fell to Alejandro Osorio (GW Shimano Sidermec) to launch first.
He was shortly reeled in as Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ) sped previous on the steepest part. Chris Harper (Jayco-AlUla) bridged throughout then dropped Pacher on the second ascent.
Fausto Masnada (Soudal-Quickstep) was subsequent to launch as Harper was 30 seconds up the street however could not make it. He was overtaken by Giovanni Aleotti (Bora-Hansgrohe) on the following ascent with 20km to go whereas Harper nonetheless had a 22-second lead, however he punctured on the climb.
On the penultimate climb, Harper had a dozen seconds in hand when Adam Yates (UAE Workforce Emirates) surged, stringing out the elite group of surviving chasers and bringing them previous the Australian.
Yates led the choose group of 9 over the penultimate summit for Pogačar with Enric Mas (Movistar), Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe), Richard Carapaz (EF-EasyPost), Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) and Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) in tow.
On the ultimate climb to the end, Vlasov tried to surge however was simply shut down by Adam Yates and 9 of the world’s finest climbers fought it out to the highest.
Coming into the ultimate kilometre, Pogačar launched a sustained acceleration on the steepest part, decreasing the group to Carapaz, Roglič and Mas however the tempo eased because the gradient slackened and the remainder of the group rejoined.
Roglič attacked into the ultimate 300 metres and Pogačar had no reply.
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