Welcome back to the Lentian Rouge cycling podcast for the Queen stage of the Giro d'Italia stage 19

the hardest race in terms of the park who were before the mountain time trial tomorrow and it

goes as follows 183 kilometers from Longarone deep into the Dolomites with a false flat uphill for

about 65 kilometers before a couple of warm up 4k 7 percent climbs. The first real climb of the

day with cat 1 points on offer is the Paso Valparola 14k 5.5 percent but the steeper last 4k's

descent and in the Paso Jawa one of the hardest climbs on the world tour circuit 10k 9.3 percent

to 2,200 meters very very steep descent into Cortina Dampezzo then the Trage Imigilavareto

which includes 8k's at 7 percent steady to Tray Crotchi then a short sort of rolling section

and then they start Tray Chino which is the last 3k's at over 12 percent average gradient with

pincher steeper than that so a very hard stage Benji but also very similar to Fadaya last year

where it's quite a hard stage before but ultimately still a 15 minute plus Wapakilo wall right at the end.

Exactly last year Fadaya we saw the action wait completely until the last climb

when we saw this parkour when it came out i think nearly a year ago at this point probably in

December that's not a year ago but i'll take it anyway we saw that parkour and we said there's a

danger that we will only see action on the last climb because the good parkour or the profile

where the hardest climb is a second last climb because then you see action happening on the second

last climb because the riders are incentivized to attack there to make differences going into

today stage we had a gc that was not very intentivizing for major moves so like from tree climbs from

the finish line and so forth but maybe for some small moves here and there but i feel like this

profile did hinder that in some sense and also the fact that tomorrow is the brutal Montenegro

Salietan trail which also has an effect there because the riders will be like if i go all out today

i might miss out on those three one half percentage that i will need tomorrow to compete for the victory

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