Giro d'Italia Stage 1 Analysis & Stage 2 Preview | THEMOVE+
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Lance Armstrong
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Paul Magnier and Soudal-QuickStep's impressive ride to win the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia and stay clear of the massive pileup inside the final kilometer, before previewing Stage 2, which serves up a long, tough stage that has the potential to serve up early GC action. Listen in to see how the duo thinks the action will play out, who will come out on top, and which riders present the best betting value.
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| 0:00.0 | Back in the day, Spencer, Lance, the minute, his lightest weight in the tour was 72 kilos. |
| 0:07.0 | Ulrich was probably heavier. |
| 0:11.0 | Ulrich is a lot taller. Ulrich is tall. He's a lot taller than Lance. |
| 0:16.0 | Indurine was 78 kilos. There was a lot of riders. |
| 0:30.5 | There was a lot of, anyway, Indyrian is an exception because he had so much power that his power to weight was, you know, didn't really penalize him a lot. |
| 0:32.0 | His weight. |
| 0:38.5 | But, yeah, no, the build of the professional cyclists have changed. |
| 0:42.9 | You know, I mean, in today's cycling, if you're 70 kilos, you can forget it. |
| 0:43.8 | You can't win the tour. |
| 0:46.9 | You need to be a 65 kilo rider. |
| 0:51.9 | Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Spencer Martin. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm here with Johan Brinio. |
| 1:11.3 | We are breaking down stage one of the Giro d'italia, which just kicked off today in Bulgaria. And then we'll predict stage two. We'll get Johan's take on who's going to win, how it's going to play out. But before we do that, Johann, quickly, I'll go through what happened today. it's not going to take very long because it was a very straightforward opening sprint stage, 147K long from Nesbar to Burgos along the, I guess the Black Sea coast |
| 1:18.9 | looked fantastic. I was impressed with Bulgaria. But we had a classic two, a classic zero day, |
| 1:26.0 | with it was two riders from small Italian teams, |
| 1:29.5 | Bardiani CSF and Pulte visit Malta or a two-man breakaway, easily reeled in, |
| 1:35.3 | easily controlled by the Peloton. |
| 1:36.9 | The big notes from back in the Peloton were in the intermediate sprint for points. |
| 1:41.6 | Jonathan Milan wins. |
| 1:43.2 | I don't know if you saw this, Johan, 1900 watt sprint for that intermediate sprint, |
| 1:47.7 | maybe not the best decision in retrospect. |
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