Tadej Pogacar has comfortably won the queen stage of Tirreno-Adriatico and has consolidated his overall classification lead, which should be won tomorrow. The UAE Team Emirates rider put on another dominant ride where he was unchallenged, as the peloton went up the Monte Carpegna twice.
Alex Aranburu and Lluis Mas (Movistar Team), Julian Alaphilippe and Mikkel Honoré (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team), Quinn Simmons (Trek - Segafredo), Marco Haller (BORA - hansgrohe), Davide Bais (EOLO-Kometa) and ALexander Konychev (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) set off on the day's breakaway. A very strong group, but one that had to face serious mountains, too long for the main headliners of the breakaway.
UAE Team Emirates and Bahrain - Victorious controlled the group throughout the day, and into the first climb of the day the separation of waters was made, as Remco Evenepoel cracked and a reduced group of around 20 riders was left over the climb, chasing an isolated Quinn Simmons who consolidated his KOM classification win.
Bahrain attacked down the descent as Mikel Landa braved the snowy narrow roads, reeling back in Simmons. In the final ascent things blew up early on once again as Landa attacked on the first hard slopes of the ascent, with an answer from Pogacar, Vingegaard and Enric Mas. Pogacar though was comfortable and attacked with 16 kilometers to go, still far from the summit, and easily build a gap of over a minute on the chasing group.
Pogacar arrived at the finish taking his fifth win of the season, as Vingegaard and Landa came home 1:03 minutes behind, having dropped Richie Porte in the descent, and after Enric Mas crashed out of contention.
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