After taking power of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease A Bike), make way for a very undecided 3rd stage this Monday for the last 100% Italian day of this Vuelta ! Entre San Maurizio Canavenes et Ceres, the runners will only have 134.6 km to go on hilly roads which can lead to many scenarios. After the 2nd category ofIssiglio (5.8km at 6.5%) halfway through, if the percentages will never be very important, we will only go up and down until the arrival in Ceres, tried at the top of a small bump of 2.6 km at 3.6%. A route certainly demanding but which could still smile at the best sprinters-pucker of the peloton, like a Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) certainly revenge after its inaugural sprint failed in Novara …
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Will the strongest sprinters be able to play the victory in Ceres?
If the backpackers will certainly be released on this profile which is very favorable to them on paper, with a team in addition Comma who will not defend body and soul the red jersey of Jonas Vingegaard After only three days of racing, the training Lidl-Trek but also Alpecin-DECEUNINCK pour Jasper Philipsen (the Belgian being completely capable of collecting such a course at his best level) will have the keys to the race in hand. In the event of a grouped arrival, in addition to the two favorites mentioned above, we also think as outsiders of runners like Axel Zingle (Visma | Lease a Bike), Orluis Aula (Movistar), Legs (INEOS Grenadiers), Thibaud Gruel (Groupama-FDJ), Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) or Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech).
The course of the 3rd stage
– Monday August 25 – Step 3 : San Maurizio C.se – Ceres (Italie) / 134.6 km – 1986m D+
