Giro d'Italia 2026 - Stage 17
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 31 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, the recap of stage 17 of El Dioro di Italia from Cassano Dada to Andalo. |
| 0:07.0 | We're heading towards the Dolomites from the industrial north of Italy. |
| 0:12.1 | And it was a beautiful finish to this stage. |
| 0:13.9 | We can see what maybe awaits us in a couple of days on Friday when we have the Queen's stage. |
| 0:18.5 | But today, classic nailed on breakaway stage, 202 kilometers have the Queen stage. But today, classic, nailed on breakaway stage, |
| 0:22.6 | 202 kilometers long, long stage, |
| 0:25.1 | two long climbs at the start, 8K6%, 8K's 4%. |
| 0:29.9 | They came after an hour of racing. |
| 0:31.1 | Then, long, false flat uphill, |
| 0:35.1 | then a 5K5% climb. |
| 0:36.6 | Then it's just... |
| 0:38.8 | I don't really know how to characterize this terrain, Benji. |
| 0:41.2 | It's like progressive up, but it's not a climb per se. |
| 0:49.3 | Well, that's a fair assessment. |
| 0:50.5 | It's also like the hills are in between hills and medium mountains. |
| 0:54.1 | We need like an |
| 0:54.6 | in-between classification at a certain point. But yeah, it was a dead set breakaway stage where |
| 1:00.0 | had a billion riders that could potentially go into the breakway on this specific parkour. And |
| 1:04.4 | the riders that I was looking out for specifically was Narvaeus for Chiklamino because that |
| 1:09.4 | battle is ongoing. Whether Chikon goes in the |
| 1:12.1 | breakway to pick up K-1 points and potentially stage win too, because that battle is also ongoing. |
| 1:18.0 | And then there's also the aspect of, we just had this discussion before the podcast started, |
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