Giro d'Italia Stage 1 Analysis & Stage 2 Preview | THEMOVE+

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Mads Pedersen and Lidl-Trek's impressive ride to win the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia, as well as unexpected early GC action behind, before previewing Stage 2, which serves up a short, explosive time trial that will feature both a battle of the stage win and the overall race lead. 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	If you're a GC contender, you can't be too far back on the top of the last time.
0:05.6	If you're too far back, it's because the first day you don't have the legs.
0:09.7	You're suffering.
0:10.7	Otherwise, you're in front, right?
0:12.4	You're in the top 20 and not in the top 40.
0:15.1	Not in the 40th place.
0:18.9	Everybody, welcome to the Move Plus.
0:21.7	Giro d'Italia edition.
0:22.8	We are breaking down stage one, which just wrapped up in Tirana, Albania.
0:28.4	And then at the end of the show, we are going to preview stage two.
0:32.4	I'm Spencer Martin.
0:33.3	I'm here with Johann Bernille.
0:35.6	And he is going to tell us how, in the heck, Mads Pedersen won this stage and who is going to win tomorrow.
0:41.8	But before we get into tomorrow's time trial, Johan, I want to talk a little bit about today.
0:46.7	If you didn't see it, but you want to listen to the show anyway, spoilers coming up right now.
0:51.9	Mads Pedersen wins over Walt Van Art.
0:54.2	It was, I thought a little, I thought it was going to be a hard stage.
0:57.7	I did not believe this talk of sprinters getting to the line like pure sprinters.
1:02.0	And it was a hard stage, especially for the first day of a grand tour.
1:05.5	Started off easy.
1:06.5	There was a long climb in the middle.
1:08.5	But Visma, Lisa bike took it up, took the pace up, made it, made it
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