2023-04-17 16:25:37
The Briton dropped his opponents 400 meters from the finish and won this Monday during the first stage of the competition.
Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers) won the first stage of the Tour of the Alps on Monday and took the lead in the general classification of the event disputed until Friday between Austria and Italy.
The winner of the Giro 2020 accelerated 400 meters from the line, at the end of this single stage disputed entirely on Austrian soil between Rattenberg and Alpbach (127 km), to catch up with his compatriot Hugh Carthy and victoriously conclude the show of force of his Ineos-Grenadiers team.
Haig finally taken over
His partner Geraint Thomas, winner of the former Tour of Trentin in 2017, notably played the luxury team to bring back a group of about fifteen pursuers on the Australian Jack Haig who had taken off during the ascent. the main difficulty of the day (5.2 km at 10% average), 13 km from the line.
Haig was finally caught 800m from the line, during a final also uphill, a moment chosen by Carthy to start a counter-attack and try to go for the solo victory. Geoghegan Hart, without panicking, controlled and accelerated at the right time. In his wheel at two seconds, the Austrian Felix Gall blew second place from Carthy (at 4 seconds), to the delight of the local supporters.
The second stage (165 km), on Tuesday, will take the peloton from Albach (Austria) to the plateau of Renon (Italy), on the heights of Bolzano, with several more climbs on the program.
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