Giro d'Italia 2025 - Stage 1

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Patrick and Benji recap the first stage of the 2025 Giro d'Italia.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Lanchin Rouge Cycling Podcast, live on the ground in Tirana in Albania, for the recap of Jira de Talia.
0:08.0	One, a really, really exciting stage here with Benji. He's been going to the start today.
0:13.0	Him and Luke, I went to the finish to scope it out. We've been having some good food, some good stories as well.
0:20.0	But this stage, Benji, is a versatile
0:23.3	sprint stage. It's a bread and butter one. All the websites have crashed so we can't see
0:28.4	what I'm going to have to do the profile at the top of the head. 160Ks from Dures or Dari's,
0:33.1	if you're Australian, to Tirana with two climbs, the Surrell climb, which is on the hill just behind us,
0:40.0	actually, comes from the south of Tirana, the capital of Albania.
0:43.5	Five case, five percent, but the first case, seven and a half percent, then it levels off a bit,
0:48.3	then there's some steeper sections, fast ascent into the city where you won't make up much time.
0:52.5	They do it twice, and then back down and then a
0:55.0	flat sprint on the Plaza Mother Teresa, which we saw this morning. Small addition, there was also
1:02.0	a climb in the middle of the stage before the Surrell climbs, but that was not too influential on the
1:06.3	stage. And let's be honest, before the stage, we were like, okay, how versatile, how selective is this stage going to be?
1:13.2	Because we looked at the climb, we're like, okay, profile looks pretty doable for a versatile sprinter.
1:19.0	But the closer I got to today's date, the closer I got to the Giro, I swear back in December or something, it wasn't December.
1:26.6	When the Giro announced their parkour, definitely wasn't December.
1:29.6	It was like February or something.
1:31.1	But when they announced it, we started with maybe a court could survive this.
1:36.8	In the last week, we went to, I don't feel like they like he will survive that,
1:40.4	but maybe the versatile sprinters will go for the stage.
1:43.6	Before today, this morning
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