Mathieu Van Der Poel grabs thrilling Stage 1 Victory at 2022 Giro d’Italia | Eurosport

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On debut kemna doing his very best to emulate that here but he’s struggling he is going to get to the one kilometer to go mark but they’re gaining now and they are gaining quickly short yes well they are gaining but somebody needs to up the pace a little bit here and that final

Kilometer it does ease off a bit percentage-wise as well but i think kevna have you know given so much he’s going to have difficulty holding on here all the way to the line arnold demar dropped out the back and kendra is going to be caught kenneth is going to be

Caught and it’s time to go because fort malloy is at the front for malloy’s attacking alicia is following him he’s got to be one of the favorites today fond of paul and company are dropping out the back i’m not sure he can hack the pace give my losers positions as

Well now monomers falling in about six or seven position this is all over the road this form of jose formula has 600 meters to go and look who’s hanging on look who’s hanging on caleb ewan caleb you and it’s still there it’s a monstrous performance from the australian who’s looking to take the

Pink jersey he has catapults on his wheel the sprinter and the gc man 500 meters to gun house ewing catches up ewan is there moving along look at that number 43 alongside him pay your bill bal he’s a fast finisher but he’s not as fast as keller bjorn binyam gomeyer’s

Made his way back borah still thinking of having a go 400 meters to go find a pool right in the center also appears when you expect him the most magnus caught on the wheel of caleb who’s really going for it caleb you’re in sitting there caleb you’re going to have

A go himself can he have it left to horse that final sprint jeremiah’s coming around the outside it’s glorious chaos at the general italia the sprint is launched on the right you and on the left called through the center that goes to match up on the pool as well father

Paul comes around vanderpool is there he hits the front there’s a crash in europe it’s mature for the pool in pink found a pool on debut takes pink stage winning vicious his it was chaotic and caleb yoon after surviving gritting his teeth digging the deepest he’s ever

Dug ends up on the ground with 15 to 20 meters to go how on earth did that happen and what happened there sean it was chaos well it was chaos you could see there you know they were very much grouped together they weren’t lined out as much and nobody was really able to

Set that real fast pace so you know all fighting was just to stay in a good position waiting we did see hellebuyn there he was in a really good position but you know started to suffer in that final 40 50 meters and i think you know

When you hang on you go so deep there you’re just riding the wheel so close and a little bit of movement from the rider in front of your touch wheels but he’s okay he’s back up on his bike i was concerned that we had a situation you

Know remember last year the tour of france he’s back on his bike and hopefully there’s no just road rash no other major injury oh what a horrible sight at the end of a beautifully explosive finale that was almost impossible to read right until the last 20 meters fonder pool

Looked like he’d gone out of it diameter drifted they both came back in the end where it was you and that we were suddenly surprised to spot in grand tour winning company it’s mature foreign ahead of binyam gilmai it’s fond of poor he’ll be pretty and pink at the end of

The day but it was much more of a complicated story than that simple sum up suggests yes well it was a very messy as we call it uh finish there and uh you know ryder’s just trying to keep a good position but still trying to stay in the

Wheel of other riders and when you know your group like that together and with the finish here as well a little bit of a turn into the finish areas we can see here you know the the the fight and from the pool we can see the kick he has he

Came from you know three bike lengths uh further back but had that power on the end and looked like he was out or all the way as we can see here ewen he just touches the wheel riding so close and uh yeah push the wheel and down here go and into

Us yeah no no real movement from uh gear may in front he just uh rubs the wheel and down you go it’s mature from the pool bini the first three across the line on stage one of this crazy start to the judo italian did not disappoint

He had to work mightily hard for it though bini and gemma as we thought was up there magnus courts looking good isn’t he after his injury pale bilbao wasn’t far i’m just looking further back in the shot as well as kara pass there was monomer and there was a crash further down of

Course given everything that’s happened sean we haven’t had a chance to focus on anybody who might have been called out behind as well riders all along the road we know that uh ballerini went down didn’t we but we’re gonna have to wait to see if there any more gaps would ever happen

This is the top 10 however mature von de paul wins stage one on debut at the 105th gerald italia he takes the first miles of the race in the chagra ahead of binyam gyomai on grand tour debut pay your bilbao magnus court wilco kelderman cara pass malama ulysse

Vendrame and skelmorze are all there but look time splits already bonus seconds ten six and four at the top binium gamayon debut was mightily mightily close at this stage he looked to be surviving better than fonder pool what’s a long climb there’s a lot of yo-yoing about

There’s the reaction from the atta crew again there’s a proof he is going to go into the white jersey so he will take something great start the grand tour live from him great start to generally your life for uh the pool already going better than his

Dad who didn’t win a stage on his appearance at the gym [Applause] [Applause] and germai that sounds like our reporters ready to ask a question hit me somewhere there you go there is where he hit you he was fighting by this stage really hard you’ve got to feel really real feel for caleb

Now then i gather that we can hear from binyam germai here he is an amazing sprint such an intense final i almost 250 300 so i am in the limit but wonderfully i think stronger than me today i’m really happy uh someone touched your will uh before

The spring what happened exactly i don’t know i just uh leaving my sprint and then i feel something so bad okay you didn’t win but are you satisfied with your amazing performances he’ll take the white jersey let’s try and make some sense of this final kilometer because arnold demar is

Dropped that’s the first image we see we saw leonard kem not on the attack he’d been racing brilliantly kelderman was following in this is the moment that formula tries to bring up policy chimolai is not far away bilbao is there and the minute i think that you and i

Both look at each other and think wow caleb still here yes well he was you know really in a good position here not not too much to the front because if you’re in the second wheel of the guy who’s for the guy who’s leading then you cannot see what’s

Happening if you’re a little bit further back you know four position fifth position is a really good place to be and we see vanderpool there he’s a bit further back maybe in seventh eighth position nine position and you know if you’ve got the legs you just wait and

See what’s happening out in front and then you make a move and we can see here on the pool as we you know get ever close close to the line he’s just following watching what’s happening and you know he just hadn’t got it in the end and if you’ve

Got the legs and you know from the feeling and girl may we did hear from you know he did a perfect job but somebody just that bit stronger and better than him in the final run to the line kara paris and duo was looking good as well wasn’t it

I’m looking behind to see who else is there really if there are any splits as well when we’re commenting we look at the front don’t they but i think there are a few quite a few splits behind this is ewan going down unfortunately And there’s well there were four seconds there there’s maybe a gap here and now there’s a gap so anybody caught out here that looks like sivakov so he’s lost a few seconds today a couple of riders from bike exchange are there knox gavidi up behind this is the finish again it’s one of

Those days where we’re going to be looking in the next couple of hours for every single place in the results there’s the touch of wheels so hard on you and let’s hear if bradley wiggins can make some sense of what happened what an incredible sprint that have you

Seen brett amazing and it was just 100 meters to go 150 minutes ago we thought vanderpool was out of it yeah we couldn’t see it um we saw caleb there and those guys it looked like matured just big distance from that wheel and wasn’t going to get back and make it

But that last 100 meters the burst of speed he had came over the top caleb went down looked like he had a crash yeah but machu getting on the line and they were all pretty much exhausted at that point he didn’t have time to throw

His arms in the air but um what a finish we said it’d be fast but we said that man will win didn’t we wow and it was fast it was it yeah and i mean it was a race which was let’s call it a bit boring right uh two

Riders all day long and then it all comes down to that final kilometer yeah i mean if it was boring but then the finish made up for it wow what rewarding and um it just shows you know that cycling is like that really we have you

Know does it need to be long long stages like that to get the same finish yep but uh what a finish and um fantastic to watch and be uh witness to much of vanderpool’s first marie rosa that would be fantastic mucho he told us this morning it would be a dream winning

This one after he won the year He is an absolute superstar isn’t he you