Giro d'Italia (2018) Photos; Stage 21: Rome → Rome, 115 km |
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| Trofeo Senza Fine arrives for the final stage in Rome | share this photo |
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| Alberto Contador, The Rome mayor, Race director Mauro Vegni and Ivan Basso | share this photo |
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| Overall winner Chris Froome arrives to great fanfare for the final stage in Rome | share this photo |
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| The media or VID ? | share this photo |
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| Signing in for one final day | share this photo |
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| Simon Yates was in good spirits. He should be. He won three stages and held the pink jersey for 13 days... most by any rider who didn’t go on to win the Giro, since Francesco Moser in 1977 according to @irishpeloton | share this photo |
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| You can bet Alberto Contador misses racing | share this photo |
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| 11th overall Alexandre GENIEZ (FRA/AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 17:30 signs in with his daughter | share this photo |
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| Froome, Contador and Viviani for one last pre-race photo-op | share this photo |
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| The rollout for Rome circuits | share this photo |
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| Team Sky toast another Grand Tour win | share this photo |
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| Passing by the Colosseum, but the fight is over | share this photo |
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| Ten laps of a 11.5km circuit on the streets in the centre of Rome | share this photo |
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| Tom Dumoulin and Chris Froome chatting on the cobbles | share this photo |
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| Colossal sprint finish finale to Giro d'Italia 2018 in Rome | share this photo |
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| Rough/cobbled, slightly uphill sprint finish in Rome... | share this photo |
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| Sam BENNETT (IRL/BORA - HANSGROHE) handled the bumpy finish best winning Stage 21 in 2:50:49 ahead of 2nd Elia VIVIANI (ITA/QUICK - STEP FLOORS) and 3rd Jean-Pierre DRUCKER (LUX/BMC RACING) | share this photo |
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| Team Sky (less Vasil Kiryienka lost on Stage 19) cross the finish line for a their third straight Grand Tour win | share this photo |
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| Your Stage 21 winner, Sam BENNETT (IRL/BORA - HANSGROHE) | share this photo |
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| The stage winner Sam Bennett said: “Quick-Step made the race hard very early and it was super fast. In the middle of the Giro, I’d say I could win in Roma but when I woke up this morning, I had such bad legs that I didn’t imagine myself winning today. However, with the winner’s mentality, you always want more and I couldn’t let my team-mates down. I kept positioning myself from 2km to go. A few people wanted Viviani’s wheel. It was a super fast finale. I knew Viviani could have a second kick so I sprinted as late as possible. Three stage wins makes me very happy but I’d also like to win a classic and Milano-Sanremo is the only one.” | share this photo |
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| Alberto Contador presents Chris Froome with winner's trophy. Froome is the first British rider to hoist Trofeo Senza Fine. | share this photo |
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| Your overall podium: 2nd Tom DUMOULIN (NED/SUNWEB) + 46s, 1st Chris FROOME (GBR/SKY) 89:02:39 and 3rd/Best Young Rider, Miguel Angel LOPEZ MORENO (COL/ASTANA) + 4:57 | share this photo |
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| Your overall podium: 2nd Tom DUMOULIN (NED/SUNWEB) + 46s, 1st Chris FROOME (GBR/SKY) 89:02:39 and 3rd/Best Young Rider, Miguel Angel LOPEZ MORENO (COL/ASTANA) + 4:57 | share this photo |
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| Thumbs up at the Colosseum; The Giro d'Italia winner Chris Froome said: “After we started racing on the circuit, many riders came to me to find a solution to make the race safer. It’s been a fantastic event. It still came down to a bunch sprint with Sam Bennett and Elia [Viviani] fighting, that’s what everyone wanted to see this evening. The atmosphere was fantastic, you could see how much it meant for the fans to have the Giro finishing in Rome. A week ago, I didn’t believe that I’d be here in the Maglia Rosa. To recover more than three minutes, it had been done before but it seemed unlikely. Stage 19 with the Colle delle Finestre was the moment the race turned around for me. This is in my mind what bike racing is about. I’d like to dedicate this victory to my wife and the daughter we’re expecting at the beginning of August.” | share this photo |
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| Rome wasn't conquered in a day | share this photo |
Giro d'Italia (2018) Photos; Stage 21: Rome → Rome, 115 km |
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