Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) was the primary maglia rosa of the 2024 Giro d’Italia after successful stage 1 to Turin. However, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) confirmed his intentions and gained time on all his GC rivals together with his regular and broadly anticipated present of drive through the hilly finale of the 140km opening stage.
Thanks to the time bonuses of 10, six and 4 seconds, Narváez leads second-placed Maximilian Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) by 4 seconds, with Pogačar third total at six seconds.
The trio completed 10 seconds forward of the opposite GC contenders, so Pogačar instantly gained a complete of 14 seconds on his GC rivals. More importantly, he confirmed he can distance them on steep quick climbs and so maybe may cause even greater time gaps on the longer climbs like Sunday’s 11.4km haul to the Oropa Sanctuary.
A complete of 17 riders completed within the chase group that crossed the road behind the trio of Narváez, Schachmann and Pogačar, all maybe glad to not have misplaced extra time after an intense shakeout on the 1.4km San Vito climb that ended simply three kilometres from the end in Turin.
Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) was there, as was Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Mauri Vansevenant (Soudal-QuickStep), Eddie Dunbar (Jayco AlUla), Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost), Giulio Pellizzari (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè), Antonio Tiberi and Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious), Attila Valter and Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Dani Martinez (Bora-Hansgrohe). Juan Pedro López (Lidl-Trek) was somewhat additional again at 20 seconds however saved his day.
Others weren’t as robust on the climbs as UAE Team Emirates after which Pogačar tried to harm everybody, whereas additionally hurting their very own climbing domestiques.
Mikkel Bjerg blew the GC group aside on the Colle Maddalena, 20km from the end in Turin, and Domen Novak and Felix Großschartner had been unable to remain within the entrance group and so later assist Pogačar. Only Rafał Majka was with Pogačar when the race was actually on, exposing UE Team Emirates’ over-enthusiasm and lack of high quality climbers.
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Pogačar tried to shrug off the frustration and tactical weaknesses and will take a look at his time positive factors. Several total rivals are already out of contact and rival groups have been weakened.
Australian nationwide champion Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla), Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich PostNL) misplaced 57 seconds, whereas Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) misplaced 2:17 in any case suffered on the Colle Maddalena climb. Florian Lipowitz (Bora-Hansgrohe) additionally misplaced 2:25, a shock after his spectacular efficiency on the latest Tour de Romandie.
Arensman completed sixth total within the 2023 Giro d’Italia as he labored for Geraint Thomas however Ineos Grenadiers had been stunned by his poor efficiency. They can solely hope he will probably be higher later within the race and on longer climbs.
“It’s clearly a protracted race, we don’t know but what’s occurred with Thymen,” staff supervisor John Allert advised Eurosport.
“He’s going to regroup with us tonight and we’ll take a look. But finally we nonetheless have loads of playing cards to play on this race and there’s 21 phases. We’re going to make it possible for we’re proper there on the finish.”
After stage 1 to Turin, the time gaps amongst the GC contenders are seconds. Stage 2 to Oropa will present that are destined to change into minutes through the subsequent three weeks.
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Giro d’Italia classifications
These are the jersey classification on the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
Click right here for a extra complete rundown of all of the classifications and prize cash, together with the intermediate sprints prize and the combating spirit prize.
Maglia rosa – The pink jersey is worn by the general race chief on the final classification who has accomplished the phases within the lowest amassed time. Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) wears the maglia rosa after his stage 1 victory.
Maglia ciclamino – The cyclamen jersey signifies the factors classification chief. Riders accrue factors every stage on the two intermediate sprints and at stage finishes. The rider with essentially the most factors leads the rating and wears the cyclamen jersey. Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) scored 25 factors for successful the stage and so is the chief of the factors competitors. However he’ll put on the pink jersey on stage 2 and so Filippo Fiorelli (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) will put on on Sunday.
Maglia azzurra – The blue jersey is for the mountain classification. Points are handed out to the primary riders over particular categorised hills and mountain climbs through the Giro. The highest and steepest mountains award essentially the most factors. The rider with essentially the most factors leads the rating and wears the blue jersey. Lilian Calmejane (Intermarché-Wanty) wears the blue jersey after being the primary to the highest of the Colle Maddalena climb.
Maglia bianca – The white jersey is for the chief of the very best younger rider classification. It is calculated b[based mostly on the time races, just like the maglia rosa, however solely riders aged 25 or below are eligible to win it and put on it. Alex Baudin (Decathlon AG2R) completed fourth on the stage and so is the very best positioned younger rider after stage 1.