2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 14 Results & Recap
Stage 14 of the 2019 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
Richard Carapaz took his second win of the Giro d’Italia in fine fashion today in Colle San Carlo, timing his attack on the penultimate climb of the day to take the victory and the pink jersey.
Carapaz is ahead of Primoz Roglic by seven seconds while Nibali is third a further 1’47” back.
Today was another day in the Alps and a short, but testing one at that. The peloton started climbing almost immediately and on the first ascent to Verrayes, Simon Yates launched the first attacks. \nAfter multiple counters from GC favorites, blue jersey wearer Ciccone. Took off with Chris Juul-Jensen (Mitchelton-Scott) and Androni riders Fausto Masnada and Mattia Cattaneo. Soon after, Andrey Amador (Astana) and Lucas Hamilton (Mitchelton-Scott) bridged across, as did Hugh Carthy (EF Education First) and Ivan Sosa (Ineos).
The group off eight stayed away with lead of 2’30”, and on the second climb of the day, Ion Izaguirre and Caruso teamed up with Tony Gallopin and Hubert Dupont and set off in pursuit of the leaders.\nThe four chasers caught the eight out in front before the base of Truc d’Arbe, where Ciccone continued to rack up KOM points.
As they have been for the majority of this race in the mountains, Jumbo-Visma led the peloton, but soon Bahrain Merida took over and isolated Roglic. Nibali launched some early attacks, which shed the GC favorites down to Roglic, Landa, Lopez, and Carapaz.
The attacks created a new breakaway at the front, containing the GC favorites: Caruso, Nibali, Roglic, Lopez, Landa, Carapaz, Majka, Dombrowski, Ciccone.
Carapaz chose his time on the penultimate climb to make a move. Roglic tried to respond, but couldn’t. The Ecuadorian finished his race with 35 seconds ahead of second place. \n \n
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