S13 Ep63: Stage 20 | Verrès – Sestrière | Giro d’Italia 2025

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2025 Girod Italia,
0:08.9	celebrating 10 years of the cycling podcast on the ground every day at the Girod Italia.
0:14.9	Today we are in Cestrian.
0:17.3	Cozze citeside and cozzes, cozzed and chisine, no spikud de chikora. Of course and she can't be ch'er K'n't beckhore
0:22.6	Of course, hopefully better than the last time I was here.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.3	You got some nightmare memories of 2018, eh?
0:44.3	No, not really. I mean, it was a long time ago and obviously put that to bed a long time ago.
0:49.3	But yeah, I just hope for some good legs and see what I can do.
0:59.0	There's actually one word, a different one, not that word. Yeah, unbelievable, I'm speechless, Daniele, I'm speechless.
1:02.0	Okay, you can say it if you want, Cicholismo.
1:05.0	Without any doubt, this is Chiquelismo.
1:08.0	What a day we've had.
1:09.0	Chris Harper's just come over the line, we're standing in the rain. You're getting freezing cold. You're in your t-shirt. But we talked this, we talked yesterday. We talked today about times when Cestrier has been disappointing. There have been other times when it's given us incredible stages in 2005. And today was one of those stages, wasn't it?
1:26.3	Pazesco is happening everything and the opposite at the Giro d'Italia.
1:30.2	Somehow it's raining now.
1:31.8	He had no idea it could rain today.
1:33.9	But it looks like Simon Yates is going to win.
1:37.9	I would say so, Miquely.
1:39.5	It's about 500 minutes.
1:40.5	It's going to win the Jira 5 minutes.
1:42.7	Michelea, what did I say to you at the start of this week?
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