The 34-year-old Sicilian from Bahrain-Victorious entered the right escape looking for solitary action on Port de Lers, but then relented
To try, he tried. Damiano Caruso managed to get into the right escape, then attempting the solitary action on Port de Lers. But nothing: the 34-year-old Sicilian from Bahrain-Victorious bounced back on the Mur de Peguere, while Hugo Houle went to seize the stage success. Result: Caruso finished 10th at 5’04 “, and so in the general classification he has not recovered positions: he is always 20th at 43’55”. Far from 10th place in 2020, and of course even more so from the place of honor of the 2021 Giro d’Italia, when only Egan Bernal had beaten him.
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The time to take a shower (with this heat, the minimum) and then Caruso comments on the stage: “At least I gave a sign of being there, of being on this Tour – his words -. Up to a certain point I was fine, but there is something that is not one hundred percent, because in the end I went out. Maybe the heat, or the power. At the beginning the sensations were good, in fact I would say up to three quarters of the race. Then I gave in. But that’s okay, at least let’s start making sense of this Tour. Let’s see if I can recover my energy and try again. Wednesday I don’t think so, maybe Thursday yes ”. Caruso has great experience – he is disputing the 16th great lap of his career, he has completed the previous 15 – and warns: “This edition is really tough, the heat is a determining factor and the averages are quite high. Every day something can happen, I believe that the games are not yet made in every sense “.
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So Italy still has only 5 opportunities left to not close the third consecutive edition without stage successes: the last joy of the day for now is still that of Vincenzo Nibali, 1st in the penultimate stage of 2019, on July 27, in Val Thorens in the Alps. The remaining Italians are 12: in addition to Caruso, Velasco, Bettiol, Pasqualon, Sbaragli, Ciccone, Cattaneo, Ganna, Felline, Bagioli, Dainese and Mozzato.
July 19, 2022 (change July 19, 2022 | 19:43)
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