S13 Ep40: Girovagando 2025: The XL Preview

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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The first Grand Tour of the 2025 season is also our tenth Giro d‘Italia on the ground with daily episodes. We kick things off here, with Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Rob Hatch looking ahead to the next three weeks of action, first in Albania and then Italy.

First, we examine a route that may lack summit finishes but should deliver excitement from the middle of stage one. The riders on the startline should also see to that, particularly the stacked field of GC contenders led by pre-race favourites Primož Roglič and Juan Ayuso.

We also meet a new addition to the podcast team for the Giro, Michele Pelacci, and hear more about what we’ve got in store over the next few weeks.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2025 Girod Italia.
0:25.9	Celebrating 10 years of the cycling podcast on the ground every day at the Girod Italia.
0:32.7	Cozze chitele, cozze, cozze, none of the usual other ten we will set sail for the Giro d'Italia.
0:55.0	None of the usual other tenuous asides needed here.
0:58.0	My name is Daniel Freibur.
0:59.0	I'm the host of this Excel preview of La Corsarosa in which we'll tell you where the race is going.
1:06.0	Who is riding and also crucially who will be podcasting with me first in Albania and then the Belpaise, that is Italy, over the next three and a bit weeks joining me today.
1:16.5	But alas, not in the cycling podcast, Cincoacinto.
1:20.1	It's not a Cinquecento.
1:21.4	I hope it's not a Cinquecento.
1:22.8	Anyone at Europe cars listening.
1:24.5	As we make our way around Italy is Rob Hatch.
1:29.8	Ciao.
1:30.5	He's not been selected for the actual podcast lineup.
1:34.0	On the bench.
1:35.0	Overlook this year.
1:36.3	What a mission.
1:37.4	A lucky son.
1:38.5	And back, I think, for his fourth year.
1:42.8	And one of the lucky individuals will be accompanying me for at least part of the greatest road trip in podcasting.
1:53.0	It's in Barone, Brian Nagat, who is not in Italy.
1:56.9	It would ordinarily be in Italy already, but I believe he's in Copenhagen and a very busy man this morning. That's correct, Daniel. And bonacera to the both of you. Buona serra. Is it
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