Giro d'Italia 2026 - Stage 20
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the 20th stage of the 2026 Giro d'Italia.
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🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcast, the recap of stage, |
| 0:03.2 | the journey of the Jurydita. |
| 0:04.3 | The final mountain stage from Germona del Friuli to Piancavalo, |
| 0:09.5 | similar to the Monte Grappa stage last year. |
| 0:11.4 | They have a sort of plain, 133Ks, a couple of climbs in the middle, but really just flat. |
| 0:18.4 | And then two big climbs, same rather so they do for two reps of |
| 0:22.8 | piancavalo 15k's 8% but first 9kk is 9% the last 4 or 5kkk is only like 5 and a half |
| 0:30.9 | percent so big draft there very technical descent off it like there was almost no front camera |
| 0:36.9 | mode because of how tight it was. |
| 0:38.9 | They got had to get them out of there. Good road service, but very technical. Then there's a 20k |
| 0:43.8 | valley, fast valley, and then they go and do it all again. It's a fast climb, normally pretty |
| 0:48.5 | high watts because it's from more or less sea level and it's steep from the bottom consistently. |
| 0:54.6 | So it doesn't go to high altitude. |
| 0:56.2 | It's very steep. |
| 0:57.5 | It incentivizes going hard at the bottom. |
| 1:00.4 | And, yeah, this episode is brought to you by NordVPN. |
| 1:04.1 | You will forgive me if you see my eyes darting. |
| 1:06.6 | Benji's giving me permission. |
| 1:08.6 | The Buclidilamian queen stage, which is slightly lower altitude than this queen stage, |
| 1:14.2 | is ongoing. |
| 1:16.4 | Okay. |
| 1:17.2 | Now, about this queen stage, though, we had some preset parameters, Patrick. |
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