Giro d'Italia 2026 - Stage 16
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the 16th stage of the 2026 Giro d'Italia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | The recap of stage 16 of the Giro di Italia from Belenzona, |
| 0:06.6 | which I'm going to just say means pretty zone. |
| 0:09.5 | It was a pretty zone. |
| 0:11.0 | We're in Switzerland today over the border in the Italian region of Switzerland, |
| 0:16.5 | finishing on the top of Kari. |
| 0:18.0 | A lot of professional cyclists used to be traditional to live here. |
| 0:21.6 | I think a few still do, but I think Contador may just, his primary residence in Lugano, not far from Belenzon, |
| 0:27.6 | essentially the same area if you're Australian, but now it's less fashionable, but still a lot of riders are familiar with this area. |
| 0:34.6 | We have a 113 K stage, four category two and three climbs on a local lap in the middle. |
| 0:41.0 | So we have the Torre and the Lee on Tika climb. They're both about, yeah, 10 and 12 minutes. |
| 0:46.8 | They're separated by pretty nice descents. Before then is a 30K false flat uphill. After that is a 30k false flat roller in a valley then they do |
| 0:57.1 | the car recline 11.6k is 8%. We have a flat kilometer with 4ks to go so actually the average |
| 1:05.7 | gradient of the real climbing is about 8.5, 8.8%. Steep, consistently steep, low altitude start more or less. |
| 1:13.9 | Swiss roads, they're going to go fast after the rest day. What's your view on this stage, Benji, |
| 1:19.4 | like is this woke nonsense, being like a Gero having such of like a Vuelta stage? Do you have a |
| 1:24.4 | strong view on it? I think it's okay to have a stage like this, but I think there might be a bit too many stage in this Gero that might be controll you have a strong view on it i think it's okay to have a stage like this but i think |
| 1:27.8 | there might be a bit too many stage in this geo that might be controllable for a strong team does |
| 1:32.6 | that make sense because if you have a strong team here then you can control a 100 kilometer stage |
| 1:38.2 | for your rider to win the race and we'll see if that becomes reality today or not. Now, I would like maybe a little bit more |
| 1:46.0 | multi-mountain stages. Maybe it's because I just, like the Piancavalo stage is a, it's not a Uniperto |
| 1:52.5 | stage. It's two times Piancavalo, but I would like three or four multi-mountain stage instead |
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