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2024 Giro d’Italia: Stage 8 Results

  • Ron 

Tadej Pogacar notched his third stage win in the 2024 Giro d’italia, showing no mercy to breakaway riders and the other GC contenders as he sprinted to victory at Prati di Tivo ahead of a small group comprising runner up Dani Martinez. It’s Pogacar’s second win atop the iconic climb of the Abbruzzo after winning stage 4 of the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico. As Luke Plapp blew in earlier climbs, Cian Uijtdebroeks claimed the Maglia Bianca back despite being attacked by Antonio Tiberi in the last two kilometres.

Speaking in the press conference, Pogacar said: “For sure the other riders are frustrated but I’m racing for the team that pays me and my team-mates ride for me to win. They’ve worked super hard to prepare for the Giro and they’ve showed that we’re so strong that we can win, so hadn’t we won, it would have been a hard work that didn’t pay off, so I’m super happy that we could win today. But the other GC contenders rode very strongly in the last climb so I think they took some confidence back and we can some big battles in the coming stages. At the start of the stage, the plan was to keep our team together as long as possible. There were many attacks at the beginning so we had to set a pace. Mikkel Bjerg and Vegard Stake Laengen survived the long climb, then the guys discussed if we’d go for the stage win or not. So we did. We were climbing so fast that the slipstream was very helpful. I tried to respond to every attack. I knew it was going to hurt my legs but when Rafal [Majka] came back to lead me out, I knew I had a good chance to win. When we are strong enough, we go for the win, that’s it. But we have won three stages out of eight so we didn’t win five of them… My nose is a little bit blocked by allergies or something but it doesn’t affect me too much”.

Stage 8 Brief Results

  1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) – 152 km in 4h02’16”, av speed 37.644 km/h
  2. Daniel Felipe Martinez (Bora – Hansgrohe) s.t.
  3. Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) s.t.

General Classification After Stage 8

  1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
  2. Daniel Felipe Martinez (Bora – Hansgrohe) at 2’40”
  3. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) at 2’58”

Jerseys

The leader jerseys of the Giro d’Italia are produced and designed by CASTELLI.

  • Maglia Rosa, leader of the General Classification, sponsored by Enel – Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
  • Maglia Ciclamino, leader of the Points Classification, in collaboration with Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale and ITA Italian Trade Agency – Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
  • Maglia Azzurra, leader of the Gran Premio della Montagna (KOM), sponsored by Banca Mediolanum – Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) – worn by Daniel Felipe Martinez (Bora – Hansgrohe)
  • Maglia Bianca, Best Young Rider, born after 01/01/1999, sponsored by Eataly – Cian Uijtdebroeks (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
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