Cycling: After the originally planned team time trial was replaced by a prologue at short notice, teams and drivers had to adapt to the new situation in this short time. The Italian Adriano Malori (Movistar) won the 5,4km individual time trial ahead of Fabian Cancellara (Trek) and Greg Van Avermaet (BMC).
This morning the race control shortened the distance by a further 300 meters from actually 5,7km to 5,4km. In the past few days, severe storms had raged in the area and severely damaged parts of the road surface. Therefore, the organizers were forced to act. The wind continued to blow strongly through the seaside town today and while the riders were almost carried away by the downwind for the first half of the 5,4km, they had to fight off a powerful headwind in the second half.
BMC's Daniel Oss set a record early on with a time of 6 minutes and 8 seconds, which favourite-after-favorite struggled to break. The Slovakian Peter Sagan in the service of Tinkoff-Saxo did this in the most spectacular way: He entered the turning point a little too quickly and his rear wheel began to break out. In the blink of an eye, the 25-year-old clicked out his inside foot, put it on the road and jerked the wheel around the corner. The spectacular driving maneuver was even rewarded with a very good time at the end and Sagan ended up in 9th place.
When the big favorites left the track at the end, Oss was finally passed - but in the end it wasn't the big favorite Cancellara, but the Italian time trial specialist Adriano Malori who was able to book the day's victory for himself.
Tirreno-Adriatico, prologue, end result:
[easy table th=“0″]1st, Adriano Malori,ITA,Movistar,0:06:04
2.,Fabian Cancellara,SUI,Trek,0:00:01
3.,Greg Van Avermaet,BEL,BMC,0:00:02
4.,Maciej Bodnar,POL,Tinkoff Saxo,
5., Matthias Brändle, AUT, IAM,
6.,Daniel Oss,ITA,BMC,0:00:04
7.,Ramunas Navardausaks,LIT,Cannondale-Garmin,0:00:05
8.,Stephen Cummings,GBr,MTN-Qhubeka,0:00:06
9.,Peter Sagan,SVK,Tinkoff Saxo,
10.,Johan Le Bon,FRA,FDJ,
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