Asiago doesn't disappoint: is the audience for the big events to welcome the arrival of the tour of Italy.

PRESS RELEASE of the MUNICIPALITY of ASIAGO of 27/5/2017

It was amazing to see the runner Frenchman Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) cross the finish line of stage 20 of the tour of Italy between applause and screams of thousands of people. The Pordenone-Asiago, penultimate effort by 190 km before the grand finale on Sunday 28 May with the arrival of the stopwatch from Monza to Milan, gave lots of emotions.

The second and third place are classified respectively Ilnur Zakarin (Team Katusha Alpecin) and Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida); Nairo (Movistar Team) is still the overall leader's pink jersey of the race.

«Up to 3 kilometers from the finish I just thought about buying time, from then on I thought I could win --are the first words of Pinot-. It is not easy to get close to a stage when we run for the General and this was my last chance. I don't think anyway enough earning 25 "on Tom Dumoulin. The time trial tomorrow is suitable to its features, but I'll do my best to limit the damage and get the best result possible. "

Equally optimistic is the comment of the Maglia Rosa Quintana: "I'm happy for today's stage. There was a good battle with other rivals in General. It was important not to waste time on them, even if I wanted to win. I'll play my cards going to all tomorrow. "

And if I'm right a hundred candles blown out this year from the tour of Italy, the same anniversary is celebrated on the plateau to the great war. «Thank you for your commitment Alderman Frank saddle, but also law enforcement agencies and volunteers who have made once Asiago a small, big city can accommodate national caliber event as smoothly on the tour of Italy that drew on our plateau thousands of fans and curious -are the words of the Mayor of Asiago, Roberto Rigoni Stern -. See cyclists pass under the military shrine of Leiten was exciting and evocative, a great way to commemorate the victims in the first world war centenary. "

"They are obviously very happy and satisfied: this stage, representing the fifth step of the tour of Italy for Asiago, gives us the desire to continue to invest on sport and the values it represents ," said the Councillor for sports and public works in the municipality, Franco Saddle -. A thank you goes to the Veneto region, represented here by the President Luca Zaia, who decided to finance the stage and recognize so our common its historical vocation for tourism at a particular time, that when we recall the hundred years since the first world war. "

A great success, not only from a sporting point of view, but also because of the strong response that Asiago and wholePlateau have given this leg of the Tour.

Photos of LaPresse/G.M. D'alberto