A yr after his older brother received a stage within the Giro d’Italia Valentin Paret-Peintre has finished the identical, making a late solo break to take the tenth stage for his first skilled victory.
Paret-Peintre shook his head in disbelief as he approached the summit end after which sat up, inspired the group to cheer even louder, and whirled his arm above his head as he revelled within the greatest win of his profession.
He was quickly joined by brother Aurelien, 5 years his elder, who additionally rides for Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale. Aurelien received the fourth stage final yr and got here fifth on Tuesday.
“Doing it one yr after my brother is particular,” the 23-year-old Valentin mentioned. “Final yr when he received his stage, my title was written by mistake on the bottle of champagne. This time, I am actually the winner.”
Valentin completed 29 seconds forward of French compatriot and idol Romain Bardet on the brief however sharp 142 km route from Pompei that ended with a top-classified climb to Bocca della Selva in Cusano Mutri.
Jan Tratnik was 1:01 behind in third. The Slovenian bicycle owner was out entrance alone for many of the remaining 40 km earlier than being caught.
Australia’s Ben O’Connor led residence the overall classification group, 3.14 behind the stage winner, additionally a Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale teammate. Whereas he failed to achieve time on chief Tadej Pogacar, Daniel Martinez and Geraint Thomas O’Connor did achieve 13 seconds on fifth place Cian Uijtdebroeks.
O’Connor is now 36 seconds away from Uijtdebroeks, and nonetheless 41 seconds behind Thomas.
Wednesday’s eleventh stage is a 207 km route from Foiano di Val Fortore that options only one third-category climb earlier than it heads alongside the Adriatic coast to Francavilla al Mare. Sprinters Kaden Groves and Caleb Ewan will each be hoping to win their first stage of the tour.
