The Spaniard of the Lidl-Trek, which was removed from an escape at 44 kilometers, won his second career victory on Sunday. Isaac Del Toro comforted his pink jersey, Primoz Roglic has lost time.
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A prestige victory after a long lonely effort. Carlos Verona, teammate at Lidl-Trek by Mads Pedersen and the mountain leader Giulio Ciccone, unwilling in the morning, won the victory during the 15th stage of the Giro, Sunday, May 25. The Spanish climber, who extricated himself from the leading group 44 km from the finish, won the second victory of his career at 32, the sixth for his irresistible team on this Giro after the four of Mads Pedersen and that of Dan Hoole.
He won ahead of Florian Stork (Tudor) and Christian Scaroni (XDS Astana). The French Romain Bardet (Team Picnic Post NL) and Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale), present in the counter group, finish 4th and 5th.
In the group of favorites who never tried to play the victory, the big loser of the day is Primoz Roglic (Red-Bull-Bora Hansgrohe). The Slovenian, in a delayed group with Tom Pidock (Q36.5) dropped 1'30 '' to the group of favorites, where the Isaac del Toro pink jersey (UAE-Emirates-XRG) responded with great ease to the many attacks by Richard Carapaz (EF-Education Easy Post) or Egan Bernal (Ineos-Grenadiers).
In the general classification, Del Toro still has 1'20 '' in advance on Simon Yates (Visma-lease a Bike) and 1'26 '' on his teammate and leader designated Juan Ayuso (UAE-Emirates XRG) before the last day of rest. Primoz Roglic, now pointed at 3'53 '' from Mexican, falls in 10th place. Nicolas Prodhomme remains the first French (20th), almost nine minutes from the pink jersey.
