Breakaway made it, Sonny won the sprint for 3rd place pubblicato il 27/04/2017
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Breakaway made it, Sonny won the sprint for 3rd place


Today’s stage was cut because of snow, and start was moved from Champery to Aigle. On the route there are 3 categorized climbs, 2nd and 3rd category, with last 50km being flat. Snow was falling the whole way on the route and riders were given tea instead of water to keep worm. Breakaway of 4 had maximum lead of 7 minutes, about 60km to go, and our team was solid in the middle of the peloton.

30km before the finish line our team took control of the race trying to bridge the gap, at that time over 3 minutes. For 20km Antonio Nibali, Jani Brajkovic and Ondery Cink were cutting the breakaway lead to minute and a half, trying to set it up for Sonny Colbrelli.

Eventually peloton caught two riders from breakaway, but the other two were too strong and came in front of peloton by 20 seconds. Stefan Kung from BMC won just edging Andrei Grivko from Astana. Sonny showed that he’s top sprinter and won the sprint for 3rdplace. Ion Izagirre is stil 5th in GC with 12 seconds behind the leader.

 

“I have a mixed feeling about this 3rd place” - said Tristan Hoffman, “because we were hoping to get the breakaway back, and if we would get the group back that would mean that Sonny would win. There was a breakaway from the start and with a bed weather riders were trying to keep their body warm, after the climb we decided to put 3 guys in front and we managed to take a lot of time, unfortunately guys in the breakaway were very strong and they managed to win, Sonny showed he was the best sprinter. We saw some good team work today, and we’ll try to take the positive out of it.

 

“It was cold race. To bad breakaway made it to the finish line, so sprint was only for third place, but I’ll try again tomorrow.”Sonny was obviously disappointed.




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