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Giro d’Italia Stage 2: Elia Viviani takes the stage, Rohan Dennis takes race lead (+ video)giro_trophy_lapresse.jpg

Giro d’Italia Stage 2: Elia Viviani takes the stage, Rohan Dennis takes race lead (+ video)

Tom Dumoulin drops to second overall
by Alex Bowden
Sat, May 05, 2018 16:18
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Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) took Stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia, coming from a long way back to outsprint his rivals in convincing fashion. Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) surrendered the overall lead after Rohan Dennis (BMC) took three bonus seconds at the intermediate sprint in Caesarea.

The 167km mostly flat stage from Haifa to Tel Aviv was the first bunch start of this year’s race and also resulted in the first bunch sprint.

A series of sharp corners on narrow roads made for a tense finish and Viviani was poorly positioned going into the final straight.

The Italian managed to get onto Jakub Mareczko's wheel as he came through, however, and used his countryman for a lead-out, powering past him as he faded.

2018 Giro d'Italia
Rohan Dennis
Elia Viviani
Alex Bowden

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BehindTheBikesheds | 6 years ago
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Five Four Italian riders taking the top 5 places in a stage of the Giro, wonder if that has happened before, maybe n the old days? 

Good sprint by Viviani, very clever riding and timed it beautifully, no point sticking your nose into the wind until the last and with 800m to go he was actually positioned perfectly given what was unfolding in front of him.

And the commentator was wrong, he was in 15th place and well in touch, he made it out as if he was a mile back when that wasn't the case at all, typical know nowt.

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Sniffer replied to BehindTheBikesheds | 6 years ago
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BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Five Italian riders taking the top 5 places in a stage of the Giro, wonder if that has happened before, maybe n the old days? 

Good sprint by Viviani, very clever riding and timed it beautifully, no point sticking your nose into the wind until the last and with 800m to go he was actually positioned perfectly given what was unfolding in front of him.

And the commentator was wrong, he was in 15th place and well in touch, he made it out as if he was a mile back when that wasn't the case at all, typical know nowt.

Well four Italians and an Irishman.

Typical know nowt?

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BehindTheBikesheds replied to Sniffer | 6 years ago
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Sniffer wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Five Italian riders taking the top 5 places in a stage of the Giro, wonder if that has happened before, maybe n the old days? 

Good sprint by Viviani, very clever riding and timed it beautifully, no point sticking your nose into the wind until the last and with 800m to go he was actually positioned perfectly given what was unfolding in front of him.

And the commentator was wrong, he was in 15th place and well in touch, he made it out as if he was a mile back when that wasn't the case at all, typical know nowt.

Well four Italians and an Irishman.

Typical know nowt?

So I mistook a flag and didn't look at the names properly, stop being a prick!

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