Giulio Pellizzari was well aware that the pressure on him to perform as Italy's best GC hope at the Giro d'Italia will increase with the race finally reaching its home roads today, but up to this point, he's had the answer for every test thrown at him.
He escaped the chaos of the crashes on stages 1 and 2, as did his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe teammates, before responding to the first attack by heavy favourite Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the road to Veliko Tarnovo alongside Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto-Intermarché), though their group was caught 500 metres from the line.
