S14 Ep32: 2026 Giro d’Italia | The Preview
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The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, the first Grand Tour of the season rolls out from Bulgaria, not Italy – and, as always, we’ll be there, on the ground, to bring you all the action from the Giro d’Italia.
This year’s “Corsa Rosa” starts here, with our race preview and the troika who’ll take you on the journey to Rome over the next three weeks: Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci. Before sinking our teeth into the Giro, though, we discuss the first big headline of the week: Paul Seixas’s announcement that he’ll be riding the Tour de France.
It’s then time to talk about the Giro, focusing first on the favourites, then moving into the beautiful canvas upon which Jonas Vingegaard et al. will hopefully create cycling art over the next three weeks.
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2026, Girod Italy. |
| 0:16.8 | Cozze chite and reichine, May the 5th, that is the week, |
| 0:21.6 | that is the week when the real Cichlismo begins, the Giro diogenes, |
| 0:26.6 | the Girod is on the Fimmline. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcoming you on Tuesday, May the 5th, That is the week when the real Chiclismo begins, |
| 0:40.6 | the Giro di Italia is on the horizon, our horizon. And in this episode, we are going to glide around |
| 0:45.9 | the proverbial antechamber of the first grand tour of the season, gracefully distributing Chiquetti |
| 0:51.2 | or little tasters ahead of the three-week feast that awaits us. |
| 0:56.0 | Joining me to do that today is our crack squad for the big outing to Bulgaria and then Italy, |
| 1:01.2 | hopefully winning blend of youth and experience, elegance and scruffiness. |
| 1:06.4 | I think both of the respective parties know who I'm referring to. |
| 1:12.0 | It is first from Denmark via Liguria. |
| 1:15.7 | Jonas Winger correspondent. |
| 1:17.5 | It is Il Barone, Brian Neigard. |
| 1:21.8 | Hey, lads. |
| 1:22.4 | Hello, Brian. |
| 1:22.9 | Hello, and thank you. |
| 1:24.6 | Feels good to me. |
| 1:25.2 | For the avoidance of doubt, you're the elegant one. |
| 1:29.3 | Well, there's, you know, there's a camera on this recording, |
| 1:32.3 | so I'm not kind of doubt that. |
| 1:34.2 | But, yeah, I actually just got back from Denmark |
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