Great Vincenzo Nibali who wins the Giro di Lombardia repeating the success of 2015: after the third place in the Giro and the second in the Vuelta, the triumph in the classic-monument of the dead leaves relaunches the Shark at the top of world cycling, one of the rare champions capable of dominate in the big stage races and in the one-day classics. Two triumphs, with two solitary arrivals on the lakefront of Como, which enhance the qualities of Nibali, a rider who interprets cycling in the way that people like best, even risking losing in order to try to win.
It went badly for him due to an unfortunate fall at the Rio Olympics, yesterday the Shark, with the same courage that distinguishes him, broke the bank of Lombardy in his own way: first by not losing the wheels of a dangerous customer like Thibaut Pinot, who he had attacked on Civiglio (displacing all the others from Quintana to Aru and Uran, freshly victorious in the Milan-Turin), then taking off in the tortuous descent about 10 km from the finish, leaving the Frenchman, elusive for everyone, in the lurch.
An apotheosis of the crowd awaited her on the endless avenue of arrival with the Shark who had plenty of time to stage a whole repertoire of gestures as a sign of jubilation. The second, the French Julien Alaphilippe – already third at the Sanremo – arrived after about thirty seconds. Third was Moscon. Aru finished sixth behind a disappointed Pinot, who closes a season of very lean cows.
