Giro d'Italia 2026 Preview
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen preview the first Grand Tour of 2026, the Giro d'Italia.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:44 Route overview
00:05:14 Startlist and favourites
00:46:12 Stage-by-stage analyses
01:26:13 Picks & predictions
01:34:02 Outro
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🇦🇺 Patrick Broe - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@LanterneRougeCycling & https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_/ & https://www.twitter.com/lanternerougeyt
🇧🇪 Benji Naesen - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjiNaesenTV & https://www.instagram.com/benjinaesen/ & https://www.twitter.com/benjinaesen
🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Legend Rouge Cycling Podcast for our preview of the Giro DiTalia. |
| 0:04.7 | The first grand tour of the year is here. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm extremely excited. |
| 0:08.7 | This episode is brought to you by our show partner, Join Cycling and Morton. |
| 0:15.4 | And we're going to get into everything that we normally do, the GC favorites, the sprint classification that we've just spent half an hour |
| 0:22.7 | figuring out what the various rules are that's my favorite part of the gero just quietly |
| 0:27.4 | the k o m classification who might win the young riders jersey which could be hotly contested |
| 0:32.5 | and of course the stage by stage previews and picking a winner which are always correct. Benji, what's your |
| 0:42.3 | hype level for the Sophia start this Friday? To be honest, can I confess that up until this |
| 0:49.1 | morning I thought the race was going to start on Saturday for some reason. Then I realized that |
| 0:52.8 | it's it's only three days to go as we are recording this. |
| 0:56.7 | And the start list is still not complete, Patrick. |
| 0:59.9 | I do not understand how that is possible. |
| 1:02.0 | But we will deal with it the way we usually do. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll invent a writers that are not confirmed yet. |
| 1:08.0 | We gave the press officers fair warning yesterday. |
| 1:11.2 | It seems that our warnings were not heated by half of the teams. |
| 1:15.3 | And indeed, I said to the guys, I texted them this morning. |
| 1:17.8 | I said, the race starts on Friday. |
| 1:20.5 | We have to do the preview. |
| 1:22.2 | We need our numbies. |
| 1:24.1 | We need to pump our numbies up. |
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