05/12/26 10:49:00
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05/12 10:47 CDT Italian rider Ciccone seizes the Giro lead as Thomas Silva
cracks and Narvez wins stage 4
Italian rider Ciccone seizes the Giro lead as Thomas Silva cracks and Narvez
wins stage 4
COSENZA, Italy (AP) --- Italian rider Giulio Ciccone moved into the overall
lead of the Giro d'Italia as this year's race moved into his home country for
the first time, and Jhonatan Narvez won the fourth stage on Tuesday.
Guillermo Thomas Silva, the first Uruguayan to win a Giro stage and to don the
pink jersey, had been in the lead as the race resumed in Italy following a rest
day after the opening three stages in Bulgaria.
But Thomas Silva cracked halfway up the lengthy, second-category climb in the
latter half of the stage and eventually finished more than 10 minutes off the
pace.
Ciccone was fighting for the stage win but was outsprinted by Narvez, with
Orluis Aular second at the end of the 138-kilometer route from Catanzaro, in
the foot of Italy, to Cosenza.
The four bonus seconds Ciccone picked up for finishing third was enough to lift
him into the overall lead of the Giro, four seconds ahead of Jan Christen,
Florian Stork and Egan Bernal.
Wednesday's fifth stage could shake up the general classification standings. It
features nearly 4,000 meters of climbing and hardly any flat sections on the
203-kilometer route from Praia a Mare to Potenza.
The 109th men's Giro ends on May 31 in Rome.
The women's Giro runs from May 30-June 7 with Italian rider Elisa Longo
Borghini as the defending champion.
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