After the Coppa Agostoni and the Coppa Bernocchi, today was supposed to be the day of the Tre Valli Varesine, the final stage of the Trittico Lombardo cycling, an appetizer of one of the great autumn classics, the <a href="https://time.news/cycling-tre-valli-del-varesin-canceled-at-the-instigation-of-riders-including-tadej-pogacar/" title="Cycling: Tre Valli del Varesin canceled at the instigation of riders including Tadej Pogacar“>Giro di Lombardia on Saturday . But the 103rd edition of the race was suspended and canceled after 58 kilometers of the race, due to bad weather. The decision was made to stop the race permanently when the riders, including Tadej Pogacar, got off their bikes after more than an hour of riding in the cold and pouring rain.
The route was shortened
Due to the difficult weather conditions, and the red alert visible throughout Lombardy, the organizers removed two laps of the final circuit in Varese, reducing the route to 168 kilometers instead of the original 200. The start was postponed to 12.20 from Busto Arsizio. and an escape was underway but the conditions were very prohibitive, with poor visibility and parts where the water could not drain. The runners and organizers therefore decided to cancel.
Pogacar-Evenepoel match postponed
Many expected the challenge between the two cyclists who stood out the most this year: on the one hand Tadej Pogacar, winner of the last Giro, Tour de France and also world champion, on the other Remco Evenepoel, Olympic. champion in Paris. But the duel is postponed. The rain also forced the shortening of the women’s version of the Tre Valli Varesine, won by the French Cedrine Kerbaol, who attacked about ten kilometers from the end with Silvia Persico and won solo after separating the Italians 4 km from arrival. The latter beat the German Liane Lippert, in third place, in the sprint.