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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
welcome back to the legend rouge cycling podcast for the recap of the giro d'italia men the entirety of the recap we started a month ago in bulgaria in nesbar we finished in rome yesterday but wrap up that stage as well won in a sprint by Big Johnny Milan.
Chapter 2: What stages are covered in the Giro d'Italia recap?
Did it save Trek's Giro d'Italia? We're going to update you on a few things. The joint discount, which has gone crazy. The GC, what does this mean for Yonnas Vigar to win this race? What does it mean for the Tour de France, which has been kind of the...
the main narrative i felt bad for the race honestly but it's been the main overriding narrative in interviews for the last week and a half the the sprints the uh yeah paul manier stepping up a level the kom classification the lalio the breakout star maybe the biggest panache holder of this whole race
And then a few other things as well as what's been going on in the Giro d'Italia at Donne, which has started and is actually stationary, is ongoing as we speak. How are you feeling, Benji? What's the energy levels like post first Grand Tour of the year?
I'm feeling pretty good, I'll be honest. Now, I do think I need to put something right, Patrick, because I swear there was a moment on our previous podcast of Stage 20 where one man named Patrick Bro suggested that it was solely me that wanted to skip the procession stage podcast. And then yesterday I was watching the celebrations at the end of the procession stage of the Giro d'Italia.
I look at Wignergaard and the team of Wismar Lisek on the podium and I see A little man in the corner called Patrick Bro from Australia celebrating.
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Chapter 3: Which stages were considered the best and worst of the race?
Clearly, I'm not the only person that wanted to skip the procession stage podcast, sir.
No, I hate procession stages regardless. Except for the Madrid one's not bad because they got a little hill in it. And this one was actually not bad. The racing ended up being pretty good. But indeed, as is our custom, becoming our custom perhaps, I dodged the pod yesterday. Blame Benji for it. I'm going to continue to do so.
Chapter 4: Who were the breakout riders in this Giro d'Italia?
So you can try to write the record, but I'll still maintain that it was a mutual, perhaps, decision. Anyway, let's do the stage-by-stage recap. We began in Bulgaria on the 8th of June. No, May even.
Chapter 5: What does Vingegaard's win mean for the upcoming Tour de France?
It's the 1st of June today. Paul Manier won the first sprint. Big upset. The next day, we had a versatile sprint. Well, actually, it was an attack of Vingegaard. Pellizzari was with him.
It looked like Pellizzari was like, oh, he's hyped the Italian. He's following Vingegaard.
Chapter 6: What transfer news emerged during the Giro recap?
They're pulling. Van Evert's there. They gambled too much.
Scaroni let out Silva. He won the stage, took the leader's jersey. That was pretty exciting for Astana. Then the next day in Sofia, Paul Meunier won the second sprint again.
Chapter 7: How were the sprint battles and KOM classification rated?
Stage four, we had Movistar saying no more sprints. They destroyed the race on a long climb and ended up gifting it to Jonathan Narvaez after young Christian set him up beautifully with an attack in the final. Stage five, the weather takes a turn for the worst in Potenza. This stage, Dictates a lot of the rest of the race. Alfonso Eulalio gets in the break with Arrieta.
Probably the most entertaining last 15 Ks. They both just crashed themselves five times. Neither of them wanted to win the stage.
I think Arrieta also rode the wrong way in the final. Ay, ay, ay. That was genuinely a very memorable stage. And after we go through all these stages, I think we're going to go through what our favorite and least favorite or most forgettable stage was.
Chapter 8: What were the highlights of the Giro Donne?
I don't think this one will be our most forgettable stage. That is... not just an individually good stage, but also the start of the rise of Afonso El Alio, where he entered in Malia Rosa by quite a bit of time to the point that he kept that jersey for X amount of days. But the next day was a bit of a disaster, was a cobble sprint with a bend in it. half the sprinters crashed.
In doing so, Davide Ballerini from Astana rode away and won the stage. Maybe the most impressive performance was Paul Meunier getting back up and then sprinting to third position somehow. Crazy stuff. But Blockhaus was coming, Patrick, and Blockhaus was 245 kilometers, a crazy amount, plus 4.5K altitude meters, I'm pretty sure. In the end,
Jonas Wingergau on the stage, Wismalisa by control for the stage win, and Felix Gall finished second, but actually quite close on 12-ish seconds. But it's fair to say we were never really scared that Felix Gall was going to beat Jonas here, you know?
The problem was, like, with the TT, Vingegaard just had to hold serve on the climbs, but he was doing more than that. He took 13 seconds plus, you know, a few bonies. But, yeah, it was interesting seeing, like, Ciccone was good on that climb. Aronsman struggled from memory. Did he lose quite a bit of time on blockhouse?
Hindley and O'Connor were very good with Pellizzari, who went too close to the sun and then did still salvage it with Hindley and O'Connor. But that Blockhouse was not actually representative of the climbing strength for the rest of the race.
Heidensmann lost a minute to Hindley on Blockhouse. Yeah. About two seconds to G and so forth. So it's like, it's not a horrible performance, but it wasn't great, you know?
No, and it wasn't what he even did a couple of days later, but indeed, Blockhouse was the first big uphill test. The next day, we had a moody stage. The only one I could have done with another one of these stages, frankly, to Ferramojo.
The problem is that they will always go to the breakaways.
Yeah.
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