2017 Giro d'Italia Stage 19 Results & Recap
Stage 19 of the 2017 Giro d'Italia is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Landa wins at Piancavallo
Quintana claims maglia rosa
After coming so close to victory twice before at this Giro d’Italia, Mikel Landa (SKY) finally tasted the elusive win after a solo charge up to the finish at Piancavallo. The Sky rider, who is also wearing the blue king of the mountains jersey, went clear with 10 km to go leaving breakaway companions Rui Costa (UAE) and Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Drapac) to battle each other for second and third. Rolland ended up leading Costa into the finishing straight, where the Portuguese rider easily came around the previous stage winner to take second.
Approximately nine minutes behind the break, another race was taking place between Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) and his GC rivals Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain Merida) and Nairo Quintana (Movistar) fueled by terse words after yesterday’s emotional stage. A charged Dumoulin accused Nibali and Quintana of working together to dispatch his jersey and Nibali responded in kind, describing the Dutchman as “cocky.” Despite pre-stage apologies and grimaced smiles, the dynamic in the bunch was volatile from the early kilometers when Nibali’s Bahrain Merida team saw an opportunity to put the pressure on Sunweb after the first climb of the day.
“Of course I wasn’t satisfied with my day,” Dumoulin said after the stage. “I felt off and I had bad legs. I made a rookie mistake being in the back during the downhill, which caused stress that wasn’t necessary. I was just chatting in the back and not paying attention, which teams took advantage of. If I stay with them tomorrow, then I still have a chance but it will be very hard.”
With help from Orica-Scott, Sunweb managed to neutralize the threat and by the time they reached the second ascent on Sella Chianzutan the GC group, containing the pink jersey, had caught the original breakaway. \nThe second next break contained: Maciej Paterski (CCC Sprandi Polkowice), Tobias Ludvigsson (FDJ), Evgeny Shalunov (Gazprom-Rusvelo), Nicola Boem (Bardiani-CSF), Gregor Mühlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe), Clément Chevrier (Ag2r La Mondiale), Pello Bilbao (Astana), Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Drapac), , José Herrada (Movistar), Dries Devenyns (Quick-Step Floors), Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data), Jurgen Van den Boreck (LottoNL-Jumbo), Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates) and Ilia Koshevoy (Wilier-Selle Italia), Giovanni Visconti (Bahrain-Merida), Clément Chevrier (Ag2r La Mondiale), Nicola Boem, Lorenzo Rota (Bardiani-CSF), Rudy Molard (FDJ), José Herrada, José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar), Ilia Koshevoy (Wilier-Southeast), Ruben Plaza (Orica-Scott), Eros Capecchi (Quick-Step Floors), Mikel Landa (Team Sky), and Matteo Busato (Wilier-Selle Italia).
After they escaped, the GC group seemed to heave a collective sigh and let them gain almost 11 minutes while they reset themselves before the final climb.
That large break dissolved to six riders as the gradient turned upward, leaving Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Drapac), Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates), Sebastián Henao (Team Sky), Luis León Sánchez (Astana Pro Team) Pello Bilbao (Astana Pro Team) and Evgeniy Shalunov (Gazprom-Rusvelo) to duke it out on the final climb, their advantage never threatened by the bunch.
Looking cool and collected, Landa attacked leaving Costa and Rolland in his wake, while in the GC group, Movistar began to slowly crack Dumoulin. Nibali and Quintana didn’t quite take advantage of Dumoulin’s situation, however. They attempted some small attacks, but it was Pinot who really did some damage in the closing kilometers. The FDJ rider rode away from his GC rivals to creep closer to usurping Nibali’s third place in the overall.
Dumoulin doggedly kept his opponents at 20 seconds, but it wasn’t enough by the time he reached Piancavallo. After 16 days in pink, the Sunweb rider starts tomorrow out of the maglia rosa with just two opportunities left to reclaim it. \n
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