Giro d'Italia: Hats off to Haig as he shepherds Chaves to victory on Etna
Australian set for key role helping Mitcheltoꦡ🅠n-Scott teammates
While 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mitchelton-Scott's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Chaves and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates took the plaudits as stage winner and new race leader, respectively, on Thursday's sixth stage of 🅠the Giro d'Italia to Mount Et꧑na, their teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Haig was very much 'man of the match'.
Australian Haig was instrumental in the team's successful haul at the end of stage 6, getting into the day's🐽 main 25-man breakaway and working hard for Chaves to help maintain the break's advantage, before Chaves was able to launch himself away from what was left of the group 🍰with 5km of the stage to go.
"Today was pretty perfect," a delig꧋hted Haig said after the stage. "We managed to get that massive group away at the start, and having me a🉐nd Esteban in there was perfect.
"ܫWe co-operated pretty well for a big group," Haig continued, "and for Esteban to get the stage win and Simon to get the jersey, it shows how strong the team is and makes me excited for what w❀e can do in this Giro."
Heading towards the slower slopes of the climb, Haig was doing everything to ensure that the break kept their advantage, and, his job done for the day, he was swallo𒀰wed up by the bunch with just over 10km to go, as Chaves readied his attack.
Haig had provided more than a glimpse of what he was capable of by winning one o💖f the toughest climbing stages at last year's Tour de Polognဣe. It was Haig's first prไofessional victory, and he dedicated the wi𒁏n to his late father after attacking alone with 20km to go.
By rights, 24-year-old Haig shouldn't really🌱 have been in a condition to have helped as much as he did during Thursday's stage to Etna. His Mitchelton-Scott teammates would have understood if he'd needed to take a few more days to recuperate having crashed hard during the opening stage time trial in Jerusalღem last Friday.
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Clearly, Haig's excitement for what he and his Mitܫchelton-Scott teammates can achieve at this Giro has helped him to put that misfortune to the back of his mind and concentrate on the task at hand.