Sandwich finish

This year's Giro d Italia: stage 18 finish was exhilarating.


Here is the photo finish.

1-3 finish for Etixx Quick-Step (Matteo Trentin and Gianluca Brambilla) with Moreno Moser on the sandwich. Other than manly victory salute of Trentin, we can also highlight Brambilla's genuine and honest smile.

So here is how the final sprint unfolded:
  • Brambilla and Moser were cooperatively pulling on damn 20% climb away from the break,
  • Brambilla was pulling hard to the (second-to-last?) final bend with Moser trailing right behind, Trentin was like 5 seconds behind,
  • Moser opened up his sprint, Brambilla followed. Moser took over to lead the sprint,
  • Brambilla didn't really push on the sprint and pulled a bit, Moser was little bit confused as...
  • Trentin simply surged to the finish line.
Moser was pretty much like, "Damn, they got me!"
Brambilla was like "Aha, yay!"

EQS played their (Italian) cards right, unlike Spain on 2013's UCI World Elite Men RR.