Giro d'Italia 2026 Route Reaction
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Patrick and Benji go over the freshly announced Giro 2026 route.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:59 2025 recap
00:08:14 2026 Giro route overview
00:14:56 Stage-by-stage analysis
01:06:48 GC contenders
01:19:30 Predictions and rating the route
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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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcast for the recap of the Juro-Ditalia |
| 0:05.6 | 2026 Parcour reveal, so we'll preview the 26 route. |
| 0:11.0 | We'll go through the stage design. |
| 0:12.8 | What happened this year? |
| 0:14.2 | Who likely will be the competitors? |
| 0:15.9 | And of course, stage by stage analysis of who's going to win each stage because we can tell you up front, |
| 0:24.1 | Tebow Nice has already said he's winning stage two. So we can tell you that isn't happening. |
| 0:29.6 | For example, when we get into the stage by stage analyses, although maybe it is, depends who's |
| 0:34.9 | going. We've had, we've been everywhere. |
| 0:39.0 | Some of you noticed, some astute listeners noticed that I wore the same t-shirt in a few of the previews. And we did batch record a few of them. So we've had a couple of weeks off. Sure, buddy. Are you rusty? Do you reckon you're rusty? I'm not rusty. I'm not rusty. I thought we recorded every day |
| 0:53.9 | and you just had the same shirt on every day, my friend. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, how am I? I'm not rusty. I'm not rusty. I thought we recorded every day and you just had the same |
| 0:54.9 | shirt on every day, my friend. Yeah, how much sleep are you working off? What's all right? |
| 1:01.5 | How much sleep are you working off today? It's five hours, roughly? Oh, that's not, |
| 1:08.2 | that five's not too bad. But I can't blame you. Like, I can't blame you for being in Australia and putting a podcast on 8 in the morning UK time. I went to bed at like 3 a.m. So, yeah, I can't, I can only blame myself. And for some reason, I decided to ride an indoor cycling race at like midnight but hey I set |
| 1:28.1 | to a WFDP so Benji's addicted to linear stage in intervention Benji's addicted to um to |
| 1:35.0 | it's swift races I went and saw Knives out three today Benjie says no spoilers I thought it was pretty good |
| 1:43.5 | no pretty good always No, pretty good. |
| 1:44.8 | Always impressive how small the cast is. |
| 1:48.1 | And I think that's how they keep the budget tight. |
| 1:50.9 | What also, like, shocks me is, I know this is not a new thing that, like, it's a Netflix |
| 1:57.6 | production released into cinemas and then a week it it comes in a week it comes out on Netflix |
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