2022 Giro di Sicilia Stage 2 Results & Recap
Stage 2 of the 2022 Giro di Sicilia is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Success of Damiano Caruso in the second stage of the Giro di Sicilia 2022. The Sicilian of Bahrain Victorious, here in the race with the jersey of the Italian national team, imposed himself on the finish line in Caltanissetta by setting the other three riders in the sprint, taking advantage with him on the final tear. Second place for Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan) ahead of Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert), who completes the day's podium, and Kenny Elissonde (Trek-Segafredo), while with a delay of 3 "the first part of the group. With this victory, Caruso leaps to the top of the general classification with an advantage of 4 "over Nibali and with 6" over Pozzovivo. and there are many who want to try their luck with an attack from afar. After thirty kilometers of sprints and counter-shots, in command are Mattias Nordal (Biesse-Carrera), Andres Libardo Mancipe Puin (Colombia Tierra De Atletas Gw Shimano), Yusuke Kadota ( Ef Education - Nippo Development Team), Stephen Bassett (Human Powered Health), Alessandro Iacchi (Team Qhubeka), Federico Burchio (Work Service - Vitalcare - Dynatek) and Cristian Rocchetta (Zalf Euromobil Fior) to find the escape of the day. in following are many to try to return, but the only ones to succeed are Stefano Gandin and Giulio Masotto (Team Corratec), who report on the pacemaker after 45 kilometers of running, with the group giving one minute. '24 ", with the Italian national team deciding to take matters into their own hands thanks to the leader Matteo Malucelli, who starts shooting for his teammates in the first person. After leaving the margin to oscillate around three minutes in the central stages of the race, the group begins to approach the approach of Enna, where the only GPM of the day is located. Approaching the climb, it is the Aeolus - Kometa that takes the lead, imposing a considerably higher pace, which allows you to detach the fast wheels of the group (including Malucelli), obviously also reducing the margin of the attackers. Among these is Mancipe to stretch, quickly taken up by Gandin, who aims at the GPM. The leader of the mountain classification thus manages to climb over the top even today, strengthening his leadership, diving downhill together with the Colombian with an advantage over the group now reduced to just ten seconds. returning to gain on the platoon and, after a slightly flat stretch, launching downhill with a margin of 25 ". Always pulled by the national team, the group keeps the solitary pacemaker at just over 20" for the whole descent and along the approach section to the final climb, which started Gandin's action definitively ends. Shortly after, less than seven kilometers from the finish, Cristian David Rico Lemus (Colombia Tierra De Atletas Gw Shimano) tried it out, who managed to gain a dozen seconds before being caught up 3700 meters from the finish by a group always controlled by the blues, who keep the pace high even once you have entered the last kilometer, at the beginning of the final tear. Here, Nicola Conci (Italian national team) accelerates, taking with him teammates Alessandro Fedeli and Damiano Caruso as well as Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan), Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert) and Kenny Elissonde (Trek-Segafredo). These men then present themselves on the final straight, where Fedeli throws the sprint to Caruso, who goes on to conquer the success and the leader's jersey of the race.
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