2022 Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 7 Results & Recap
Stage 7 of the 2022 Tirreno-Adriatico is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Phil Bauhaus's flywheel in the seventh stage of Tirreno - Adriatico 2022. A sprint with a strong headwind rewarded the Bahrain - Victorious runner who remained covered until the last meters before putting in a spectacular comeback. On the photofinish, the German mocked Giacomo Nizzolo (Israel-Premier Tech) and Kaden Groves (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) with the blue that up to 20 meters from the finish seems to be able to get the better of the remaining sprinters. Excellent sprint also for Davide Cimolai (Cofidis) and Alberto Dainese (Team DSM) who closed the top five in fourth and fifth position. No problem, of course, for the leader Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), who for the second year in a row wins the final success of the Corsa dei Due Mari. Together with the Slovenian, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) climbed on the podium, with a gap of 1'52 "and 2'33" respectively. Grenadiers), the last stage immediately sees a bad fall, in which Olav Kooij and Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) remain involved. However, it was Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education-EasyPost) who was forced to retire, as was Mattia Bais (Drone Hopper-Androni Sidermec). The plot, for the rest, is almost obvious: the escape, composed of Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF-Faizané), Jorge Arcas (Movistar) and Manuele Boaro (Astana Qazaqstan), immediately takes up space and earns up to 3'23 " before the group starts to work to get back in. In front of the only moment of interest is the last GPM of the race, in which Boaro passes first. Jumbo-Visma, Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, Alpecin-Fenix and Groupama-FDJ work together to keep the gap always around 2'30 ", and then decrease below 2 'on the second pass on the finish line. In the following lap, the group accelerates decisively and gets very close to the three pacemakers, who maintain just under a minute of margin to pass the finish line, valid as an intermediate sprint, where Tonelli passes first. In this phase, the only important fact that is recorded is the puncture of the second in the standings Vingegaard, who however manages to quickly return to the group. In the next two laps, the platoon remains between 40 "and 25" behind the leading trio, which becomes a couple 16 kilometers from the end as Tonelli gets up and is reabsorbed.
Boaro and Arcas, on the other hand, continue together , starting the last lap with still 20 "of margin, but the work of Alpecin-Fenix and Groupama-FDJ allows the group to go to close on the two with eight kilometers from the finish. At that point, the fight between the trains begins sprinters, with men Bahrain Victorious, Arkea-Samsic, Trek-Segafredo and Israel-Premier Tech to take the top positions, as well as Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates, which obviously doesn't want to take any risks. in the last kilometer and in the final straight, with Rick Zabel pulling the sprint to Giacomo Nizzolo; however, Andrea Pasqualon and Alexander Kristoff climb up from behind, starting the sprint perhaps too early and, just over 50 meters from the finish line, is overtaken by Nizzolo and Davide Cimolai (Cofidis). However, the two Azzurri are overtaken in the last meters by the comeback of Kaden Groves and Phil Bauhaus, with the German winning the success.
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