Welcome back to the Legend of the Blue Cycling Podcast for stage

stage from Martin Sikura to Fano, a hundred and ninety three kilometers, so pretty long once again

yesterday and the day before no actually yesterday was long

2008 kilometers tomorrow is another pretty long stage 180 kilometers but it's the

Murray stage.

The first 50k is flat, like a lot of these stages have been, then these walls.

A lot of them like, I don't know, I feel like the Giro really wants aia to also win the Malia Azura because there's nothing for Simongeshka here.

There's only four categorized climbs, cat fours, but really there's like 10 proper climbs,

then they're all decent enough.

So that's somewhat surprising.

The last climb 1.2k is 9.2 percent.

The Monte Giorva gives you a reflection of what most stages like. There's about a climb like that

every 12 to 15 kilometers and that itself is 13 k's from the finish in Farno and any abandons or anything before the race benchy

Yakupsen?

Yes, Yacopsen was out after yesterday's crash.

Then again, I wasn't expecting him to stick along too much longer maybe for the upcoming

sprint stage but at the time trial I was I was expecting him to dip out anyway so

it's not too much of a difference I reckon for the ongoings of the race then we kick off with the race where like you said it

Breakaway action was expected yesterday when over all the potential runs that could be in this breakway we mentioned

100 riders because basically 75% of the peloton will try and be in the breakaway today because most of the

teams will want to be in that breakaway and like it's the way this parkour is split up how that breakaway formation phase

ends up going because the first 54 kilometers flat like you said which leads to a few breakaway groups with rulers that might not be the best

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