Moreno Moser led Cannondale’s fight for a stage victory at the Giro d’Italia on the long road to Pinerolo but he again came up short, beaten by the Etixx-QuickStep duo of Matteo Trentin and Gianluca Brambilla.
Moser looked strong on the late climbs that split the 24-rider break of the day and even tried to drop Brambilla on the final San Maurizio ramp on cobbled streets that topped out with just two kilometres to go. He was thinking about the sprint with Brambilla when Trentin arrived from behind and attacked in sight of the line.
“E’ una grande beffa (a sick joke),” Moser said just seconds after crossing the line, still stunned at how victory had slipped his grasp.
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“There’s not much I can say. I was watching Brambilla and then I saw Trentin flash by at 20 metres to go, and there was nothing I could do.
“This was a huge chance for me, perhaps one of the biggest in my life to win a stage at the Giro d’Italia. I didn’t know that Trentin was coming back up to us. I’d lost my radio. For sure my directeur sportif would have told me but I couldn’t hear anything because my radio had slipped out.”
Moser often seems to struggle under the weight of his surname and the expectations it carries in Italy after the success of his family in professional cycling and especially his uncle Francesco. He won a stage of the Tour of Austria in 2015 but huge expectations had surrounded his professional debut in 2012 and after he won Strade Bianche in 2013.
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