Giro d'Italia 2026 - Stage 1
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap stage 1 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for our recap of the first grand tour stage of the year. |
| 0:05.2 | Thanks so much to all of you that listen to the preview, one of our biggest Euro previews. |
| 0:09.6 | I think the biggest Euro preview ever. |
| 0:11.6 | Go and check it out if you want to hear more about GC, etc. |
| 0:15.0 | Not too much for GC change today because we have a pancake flat sprint stage more or less from Nesbar to Burgas. |
| 0:23.7 | It is on the Black Sea on the coast in Bulgaria, quite picturesque. |
| 0:29.2 | It's a bit like Ireland today with low-hanging cloud and some sort of rock formations on the coast. |
| 0:35.0 | Beaches looked all right, no free ads, but I thought it looked |
| 0:37.5 | actually quite nice. This episode is brought to you by our show partner, join cycling. The finish |
| 0:44.4 | is in the town. We have absolutely, it's flat. There's like two categorized climes, which are basically |
| 0:52.4 | speed bumps earlier. there is a little uphill |
| 0:56.6 | kicker, which I think makes a difference to this sprint. It's a 5K rule today. Then at 4Ks, they |
| 1:03.5 | enter a city circuit, the city entrance, then gets really narrow. Then the finish is they had to bifurcocate the peloton because there was a row of trees. |
| 1:13.6 | And so they went on, like there's two roads, it's quite common in Spanish towns. |
| 1:18.6 | There's two roads separated by trees. They had to go on one of them. They couldn't take the trees out to make it wider, but it was quite narrow. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's this little kicker that you can't really see on the map, but when they got |
| 1:31.9 | there it slowed. |
| 1:32.9 | I think it heard a certain sprinter today. |
| 1:35.8 | Ooh. |
| 1:36.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.8 | I look forward to hearing your analysis on that. |
| 1:41.7 | But I think we need to start earlier, Patrick, throughout the stage, because we had a breakaway today, two riders in that breakaway. Diego Pablo Sevilla of Pulti Cometa, he's been in the AOLO team for a couple of years now, and Manueli Tarotzi, the Italian charming man in the breakway that fights for every classification that people that watch a zero on TV and our mainstream |
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