Giro d'Italia 2026 - Stage 2
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap stage 2 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, the recap of stage two of the Giro |
| 0:04.1 | to Italia as well as stage seven of La Vuelta, Spaina Feminina. This episode is brought to you by |
| 0:11.4 | Morton. Today in the Giro we had a 220 kilometre long stage. Yeah, it was from Burgas to Velico |
| 0:19.2 | Taranovo all the way inland, heading west, including some climbs. |
| 0:24.4 | Unfortunately, we had some wet weather like light rain predicted for the last two hours of this stage. |
| 0:30.2 | It got a little bit cool. |
| 0:31.2 | Well, it wasn't that cold, but it looked slippery. |
| 0:33.7 | The main part of the stage is some hills with descents in the last 35 kilometers. |
| 0:38.7 | Then there's a 4K 6.6% climb. |
| 0:41.3 | There's a Red Bull kilometer just before the start of that climb. |
| 0:44.4 | Then a descent into town and then a cobbled like 800 meter uphill drag to the finish. |
| 0:52.1 | Due to the length of the stage, I was pretty sure that, like, |
| 0:58.4 | more, a lot of teams would be interested in the breakaway. |
| 1:00.5 | I mean, let's run through some teams, Benji, |
| 1:02.4 | that we think could have been interesting for the break. |
| 1:05.1 | I mean, EF have brought, like, |
| 1:06.5 | seven guys for this, except for Mickles. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, I'm looking at the start list, you have it's far from the only team where |
| 1:13.6 | I feel like they should try and go in the breakaway because the way I approach the stage is |
| 1:17.6 | similar to it's even more than sprint stage and sprint stages there's the idea that if you don't |
| 1:23.6 | have the top sprinter then you should probably hedge your beds and go in |
| 1:27.5 | the breakaway as well. |
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