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World champion Filippo Ganna wins the first stage of the 104th edition of the Giro d’Italia, making the Turin time trial his own. The 24-year-old Piedmontese, team Ineos Grenadiers, covers the distance of 8.6 kilometers which earned him the first pink jersey of the Giro with a time of 8’47 ”, behind him another blue, Edoardo Affini, team Jumbo-Visma, +0 ‘ ’10, third the Norwegian Tobias Foss, Team Jumbo-Visma, + 0 ” 13.
“A good time trial but it was predictable. Ganna repeated what he did last year,” Francesco Moser, former road and track cycling champion, told Adnkronos about Filippo Ganna’s victory. “Good also Affini who finished second but it is only the beginning, we’ll see” he concluded.