Giro d'Italia 2025 - Stage 20

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Patrick and Benji recap the 20th stage of the 2025 Giro d'Italia.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcasts.
0:02.4	So the recap of stage 20 of the Giro d'etalya one that will live long in the history books.
0:07.4	The brutal Finestra approaching the ride as the hardest climb of the race.
0:12.4	This episode brought to you by bicycle.
0:16.2	Word on them in a second.
0:18.2	But the stage, 205 kilometers, very kilometers very very long rolling terrain before the finestra it's
0:25.2	still up and down it's not completely flat and then we have we have one categorized climb to call it
0:30.6	delis delis which is not that hard and then the finestra in 18 and a half case 9.2% up to 2150 meters is the spectra that's been hanging
0:39.7	over the race the last 8k's is gravel it crests with about 28 kilometers to go before a
0:46.8	very technical narrow descent and then the big highway up to sestriere a more gradual climb, not the very hard.
0:55.4	Jungfrau, I think it was called Finnish that Frum maybe had in 2018.
1:01.9	So, yeah, I just made it up.
1:04.6	I was like, young frau.
1:06.4	I think that just means young woman.
1:08.4	In Dutch, yeah.
1:10.7	Just making up words. In Dutch.
1:11.8	Just making up words. Close enough.
1:14.4	Before the stage, to remind you of the GC standings, Isaac Beltoro, since the Siena
1:19.4	gravel stage has been in the Malia Rosa, defending it and even extending his GC lead on a number
1:24.7	of riders, 43 seconds ahead of Richard Carapaz, who's been the
1:28.6	best climber in the race, at least results-wise, up until this moment, dropping Simon Yates
1:35.1	on short climbs, dropping Del Toro on the long climb on stage 16 and everybody, frankly,
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