delayed start and shortened route… Follow the 13th stage

Third mountain stage of this Giro, Friday May 19, and first big explanation to be expected. The 13th stage of the Giro 2023, which connects Borgofranco D’Ivrea to the resort of Crans Montana, in Switzerland, has everything the ideal playground for the favorites to reveal themselves, halfway through this Giro. While the peloton had to swallow three first category passes, the Grand Saint-Bernard pass (25.7km at 5%), the Croix de Coeur (15.4 km at 8.8%) and the climb to Crans Montana for finish (13.1 km at 7.2%), the runners will not ultimately climb the first, highest point of this edition (2,500m), due to excessive snowfall, and will therefore pass through a tunnel.

The opportunity all the same to see the first duel between Primoz Roglic and the pink jersey Geraint Thomas, now relieved of Remco Evenepoel, but also of Tao Geogeghan Hart, evacuated on a stretcher on Wednesday. Unless the big names leave a breakaway to fight for victory to avoid having to control the race, after several trying days marked by several falls and numerous cases of Covid-19 which reshuffle the cards of this 106th edition every day. .

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