Ganna and Pidcock inspire ambush at Volta ao Algarve

TAVIRA PORTUGAL FEBRUARY 17 Filippo Ganna of Italy and Team INEOS Grenadiers competes in the breakaway during the 49th Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta 2023 Stage 3 a 2031km stage from Faro to Tavira VAlgarve2023 on February 17 2023 in Taviria Portugal Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images
Filippo Ganna rides with Ineos Grenadiers' teammate Tom Pidcock in the decisive six-rider breakaway on stage 3 (Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

At the start of the Volta ao Algarve, Tom Pidcock vowed to "take every day as an opportunity to race" and his Ineos Grenadiers boss Rod Ellingworth insisted that his star-studded squad would "put themselves out there, for sure."

All that was proven well founded on Friday's stage 3, as Pidcock and Filippo Ganna helped rip up the script with a late ambush. 

Patrick Fletcher

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