Tadej Pogacar, a member of the UAE Team Emirates, delivered an impressive individual time-trial during the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia on Friday, greatly outperforming all other competitors on the 40.6km journey from Foligno to Perugia. This happened in the wake of Filippo Ganna setting the initial pace.
Ganna, an Italian competitor with team Ineos Grenadiers, had established a time of 52:01, and appeared poised to take the stage. Pogacar however, was lagging behind following the second intermediate checkpoint but managed to recover during the challenging uphill race to the finish line.
With a triumphant gesture, Pogacar crossed the finish line in a record time of 51:44, thereby beating Ganna’s time by 17 seconds to extend his overall dominance in the category and maintaining his possession of the Maglia Rosa.
From the USA, Magnus Sheffield presumptuously finished third, trailing 49 seconds behind whereas Geraint Thomas, beginning the stage as a runner up in the general rankings, unfortunately failed to impress and ended up completing the stage two minutes slower than Pogacar.
Subsequently, Daniel Felipe Martinez found himself advancing to second in the overall standings, lagging two minutes and 36 seconds behind Pogacar, whilst Thomas fell to third, an additional 10 seconds behind.
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