VIDEO: Richard Carapaz makes his Maglia Rosa move on stage 17 of the 2025 Giro d'Italia with massive Mortirolo attack
CyclingWednesday, 28 May 2025 at 15:59
The big question ahead of stage 17 of the 2025 Giro d'Italia was whether or not the GC riders would attack on the mid-stage Mortirolo. Well, they waited until near the top, but when Richard Carapaz finally made his move, it was a big one.
In the GC group, Carapaz made his move at around 2km to go on the climb, dropping his main rivals Isaac del Toro and Simon Yates, putting the Maglia Rosa very much in play. With just 12 seconds lead at the top of the climb though, Carapaz was by no means off in the distance as he started his descent. The question now is, can he keep it going?
See the initial attack of the EF Education-EasyPost leader for yourself in the video down below!
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🚂 CHOO CHOOOOOOO! The #GirodItalia is on the line as Carapaz goes clear!
— Giro d'Italia (@giroditalia) May 28, 2025
The favourites crest the Mortirolo 15" behind the Ecuadorian, with a long downhill coming up
🇨🇴 Egan Bernal is the main GC rider dropped following the attack of Richie. pic.twitter.com/ObsZQfYU64
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- Did anyone take TPs own words into account?Mistermaumau13-06-2025
- Sorry but that’s not exactly the Pog we know from the past. It may be wiser but coming all so suddenly and without advance warning but with the apparent pressure to justify post-event, the most obvious conclusion to be made is, he’s actually not feeling THAT serene about the Tour after noticing what the others are up to.Mistermaumau13-06-2025
- Cycling media needs stories because there’s little happening or to tell outside the actual action and because it’s very hard to attract people away from the countless other forms of available distraction. Most riders are not exactly stimulating to listen to and most commentators are ex-riders ;-)Mistermaumau13-06-2025
- No, only the ones you’re aware of and a few who got away, some had nothing to release and were just unfortunate not to get any recognition.Mistermaumau13-06-2025
- He has not trained in TT specifically. He wanted to simulate the conditions of the TDF TT complete with bottle and drink. This should make sense, recreate the conditions of TDF not this TTabstractengineer13-06-2025
- Full release of all medications and tues applied for following his unfortunate crash leading up to that 2024 TDF.
Front24213-06-2025 - Why to think in elaborate complot and not in simple things like probably he woke up with some minor allergic symptoms? He was breathing hard like he had never done before (hyperventilating) at the start and the water was to calm the itching in the throat. And a complot for what? Visma would not consider him its main rival because 4th in a TT? senseless.
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