LIVE Tour of Switzerland 2022, today’s stage LIVE: 40 km at the finish, the chances of Masnada and the treads increase, group at 6’50 ”

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15.41 30 km to the finish!

15.39 The posting of the “peloton” starts to descend again, now signaled at 6’25 “.

15.37 Group in single file at this time. Israel Premier Tech rolls.

15.34 We remember the composition of the escape: Fausto Masnada (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange Jayco), Josè Herrada (Cofidis), Clement Champoussin (AG2R-Citroen), Nico Denz (Team DSM), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Andrea Pasqualon (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Quentin Pacher (Groupama FDJ), Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Roland Thalmann (Swiss national team) and Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal).

15.33 The group will have to accelerate in this stretch of plain if they want to go and retrieve the fugitives. Although the last climb is very hard, a gap of almost 7 ‘is difficult to mend.

15.31 Michael Matthews and Andrea Pasqualon sprint at the intermediate finish. The Australian has the better and gets the 4 points up for grabs. 2 for Pasqualon.

15.29 The Yellow Jersey group does not recover. Stable gap now at 6’50 ”.

15.27 40 km at the end of stage number 6 of the 2022 Tour of Switzerland.

15.26 Soon the leaders will cross the intermediate finish line in Naters.

15.23 The detachment of the group in this phase reaches almost 7 ‘.

15.21 The descent becomes quite steep again in this last stretch. Soon the 25 km of plain will begin that will lead to the climb towards Moosalp.

15.18 A man from Astana now returns to set the pace. The only moment in which the group has noticeably recovered is when they pulled the men in blue.

15.16 50 km to the finish! Fuglsang goes up the group after stopping at the flagship.

15.14 The group gap rises again to 6’20 “. The chances of victory are growing for those of the fugitives who manage to be brilliant on the last ascent.

15.12 We remember the names of the 11 treads: Fausto Masnada (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange Jayco), Josè Herrada (Cofidis), Clement Champoussin (AG2R-Citroen), Nico Denz (Team DSM), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Andrea Pasqualon (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Quentin Pacher (Groupama FDJ), Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Roland Thalmann (Swiss national team) and Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal).

15.09 Yet another retirement in the race. This time it’s up to Kyle Murphy of Human Powered Health.

15.06 60 km to the finish of the Moosalp. Descent section without many curves, where you can make enormous speed.

15.04 Continue to descend, passing the towns of Muenster and Ritzinger.

15.01 The Israel Premier Tech of leader Fuglsang are back at the head of the group.

15.00 The gap of the group in this downhill stretch remains substantially unchanged, always stable around 5’30 ”.

14.58 We recall the situation of the general classification, modified mainly by the farewell of Aleksandr Vlasov:

1 FUGLSANG Jakob ▲ 1 22:24:24 –
2 THOMAS Geraint ▲ 1 0:01 –
3 KRON Andreas ▲ 1 0:08 –
4 KÜNG Stefan ▲ 1 0:10 –
5 HIGUITA Sergio ▲ 1 ,, –
6 POWLESS Neilson ▲ 1 0:22 –
7 GROßSCHARTNER Felix ▲ 1 0:34 –
8 REICHENBACH Sébastien ▲ 1 0:37 –
9 LEKNESSUND Andreas ▲ 1 0:38 –
10 SCHACHMANN Maximilian ▲ 1 0:55 –

14.56 70 km to the finish! There will still be 53 between descents and plains, before reaching the last fearsome final climb.

14.53 Finished the steepest downhill stretch for the treads that now cross the inhabited center of Urlichen while the road flattens.

14.50 We recall the composition of the group of treads: Fausto Masnada (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange Jayco), Josè Herrada (Cofidis), Clement Champoussin (AG2R-Citroen), Nico Denz (Team DSM), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) , Andrea Pasqualon (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Quentin Pacher (Groupama FDJ), Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Roland Thalmann (Swiss national team) and Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal).

14.48 Scollina also the group with a delay of 5’35 “.

14.47 Very technical descent, full of hairpin bends the one that the treads are going through.

14.45 This is the new top 5 of the GPM ranking:

1 SIMMONS Quinn 54
2 MASNADA Fausto 15
3 GILBERT Philippe 12
4 LEKNESSUND Andreas 10
5 KAMP Alexander 10

14.43 The climb just finished was classified as GPM hors categories, granting Quinn Simmons a good 20 points.

14.41 After the ascent of the Nufenenpass for the treads! Quinn Simmons passes first, thus increasing his leadership in the GPM ranking.

14.39 The great work of Astana continues, in the last wheel there is the Kazakh Alexey Lutsenko.

14.37 Very hard climb in this section. It is now many kilometers that it is over 2000 meters above sea level.

14.34 The 11 treads remain compact as the brow at high altitude approaches.

14.31 The arrival of the Kazakh team brought an important acceleration in the group. A lot of riders begin to lose their wheels and the gap starts to go down again.

14.28 It is among the Thalmann treads. As a group, the Astana is seen in the lead.

14.25 85 km to the finish. The group continues to climb very calmly.

14.23 The news of a new withdrawal arrives. This time it is the turn of Gonzalo Serrano of Movistar.

14.21 The group is now 7 ‘away. The pace is mainly done by three teams: Israel-Premier Tech, Ineos Grenadiers and BORA hansgrohe.

14.19 Masnada reabsorbed by the other fugitives, Thalmann loses his wheels.

14.18 Today we go to the heights! The brow on the Nufenenpass will reach 2478 meters above sea level, while the finish line will be set at 2040 meters!

14.16 When there are still 5 km of ascent left, it is Masnada who tries to stretch!

14.14 Dion Smith is breaking away from the leading group, now made up of the following 11 riders: Fausto Masnada (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange Jayco), Josè Herrada (Cofidis), Clement Champoussin (AG2R-Citroen), Nico Denz ( Team DSM), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Andrea Pasqualon (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Quentin Pacher (Groupama FDJ), Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Roland Thalmann (Swiss national team) and Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal).

14.11 Hard climb, officially measured in 13.6 km at 7.8% average gradient, but in reality the road started to go up much earlier.

14.09 Moving on to the race, on the run there is a group of 12 men which also includes the Italians Fausto Masnada and Andrea Pasqualon and of which we will shortly give you the full composition. The group is chasing at 6’30 ”while the first of the two tough climbs of the day is being climbed: the Nufenenpass.

14.07 Situation that unfortunately brings us back to two years ago and that we never wanted to relive. The race goes on, but the air is certainly very tense even for those who remained.

14.04 Diego Ulissi, Tom Pidcock, Alberto Bettiol, Hugh Carthy and many others together with him, including the entire Bahrain Victorious and Alpecin-Fenix.

14.02 The group had an extremely eventful morning in Switzerland. A real rain of withdrawals due to Covid. 30 runners affected including the Yellow Jersey, Aleksandr Vlasov.

14.00 Friends of OA Sport, passionate and passionate about cycling, good morning and welcome to LIVE LIVE of the sixth stage of the Giro di Svizzera 2022!

Friends of OA Sport, passionate and passionate about cycling, good morning and welcome to LIVE LIVE of the sixth stage of the Giro di Svizzera 2022! It starts from the success of Aleksandr Vlasov who also earned him the leader’s jersey. Today the real climb finally arrives!

A 181 km course that will feature two extremely challenging climbs, as per the tradition of Swiss racing. The first ascent is located about halfway along the route, the GPM hors-categories del Nufenenpass. The ascent recognized as a GPM measures 13.6 km at 7.8% but in reality the road will begin to climb much earlier until it reaches 2478 m of altitude.

If the first ascent can already make a great selection, on the second we will see a great battle. We will climb up to 2048 m of altitude of Moosalp with a climb of 17.7 km at 7.6% which will constitute the second “out-of-category” GPM. Today’s route will inevitably leave its mark on the general classification.

Vlasov launched the first message yesterday, but Jakob Fuglsang, Geraint Thomas and Neilson Powless responded in attendance. Domenico Pozzovivo has just lost 10 ″ and could look for the bang on a path very suitable for his characteristics. Attention also to Sergio Higuita and Ion Izagirre, without excluding Dani Martinez, Thibaut Pinot and Remco Evenepoel despite the difficulties of the last stage. Expected departure at 11.40 am, our LIVE LIVE will start at 2.00 pm, don’t miss it!

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