Bernal wins it
Stage nine marked the first-ever Grand Tour stage win for Egan Bernal. Hard to believe those words, isn’t it? But yesterday he was a class above the other GC contenders. And had the unpaved gravel section at the top of the day’s final climb been longer, surely he would have made up even more time. However, the real test will come with all those hard climbs in the final week of the race. But with the strong Ineos Grenadiers team to back him, it will be hard for anyone to take the pink jersey away from Bernal.
“I cannot believe what just happened, I just won my first stage in a Grand Tour,” Bernal said after the finish. “I made a lot of sacrifices to get where I am now. I was thinking I would do well today, but I was not sure whether I could win the stage.”
2021 Giro d’Italia – Stage 9 results
- Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) – 4:08:23
- Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) + 7s
- Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana-Premier Tech)
- Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) + 10s
- Dan Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation)
- Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) + 12s
- Romain Bardet (Team DSM)
- Marc Soler (Movistar)
- Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers)
- João Almeida (Deceuninck – Quick-Step)
General classification
- Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) – 35:19:22
- Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) + 15s
- Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana-Premier Tech) + 21s
- Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) + 36s
- Attila Valter (Groupama-FDJ) + 43s
- Hugh Carthy (EF Education-Nippo) + 44s
- Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) + 51s
- Dan Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation)
- Simon Yates (Team BikeExchange) + 55s
- Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates) + 1:01
Who’s a good dog?
No need to measure CdA when we are this aero! pic.twitter.com/UUYf3UX2b2
— Alexey Vermeulen (@alexeyvermeulen) May 10, 2021
Out-of-this-world performance
When you are in the middle of a time trial but your crush is in the audience.pic.twitter.com/Ux8bNt9L31
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) May 8, 2021
Captain Obvious to the rescue
Watching the Giro with @Sammmy_Be
Me: what are your predictions for the stage?
Sam: everyone gets wet.😑
— Tara Bennett (@Tee4Tara) May 11, 2021
What happened here?
Ouch
Is there still a link to the giro timelimit calculator. Asking for a friend @rogerkluge
— Thomas De Gendt (@DeGendtThomas) May 13, 2021