S14 Ep35: Stage 3 | Plovdiv - Sofia | Giro d’Italia 2026
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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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 Italia. |
| 0:13.6 | The cycling podcast, every day on the ground at the Girod Italia since 2016. |
| 0:20.5 | Today we are in Sofia. |
| 0:36.1 | Palacchi, good-sera. Goodsera, Daniele. |
| 0:39.3 | From Sofia in Boguio, we have just chinchined, we've just cheered |
| 0:46.3 | charged our glasses with a spreece. |
| 0:49.3 | The Venetian drink par excellence, why are we drinking spreece today? |
| 0:53.3 | Pelace is a good reason. Why? Venetia, not that, look're drinking spritus today pelagis is a good reason why |
| 0:55.0 | Venetia not that look pelagin not that anyone would be thinking about football today perish to |
| 1:00.7 | thought but venetia today secured their promotion to serial i believe they did they did and the leone |
| 1:07.1 | de san marco is back where they belong in the Maximum series and we are closer and closer to |
| 1:13.1 | Valdobiadne, Conegiano, your beloved region of Italy. |
| 1:17.1 | Do you know what? |
| 1:18.1 | I've got something else. |
| 1:19.1 | I've got another Venetian link for you today because I was reading about Pelachi today, our pink jersey, |
| 1:22.6 | still our pink journey, Thomas Silva, where he's from in Uruguay, maybe a bit more, I was going to say this until later, but he's from a place in... |
| 1:32.3 | Maldonado. |
| 1:33.3 | Maldonado, which was discovered. I didn't really understand this because it was discovered this town in Uruguay in 16th century by an Italian with a not very Italian name, Sebastian Cabot, who was from Venice, |
| 1:48.6 | English-educated from Venice, but his mate, his lieutenant was called Maldonado. |
| 1:54.2 | For some reason, Cabot didn't take the glory for himself, and they called the town Maldonado, |
| 1:58.2 | and that's where our pink jersey was from. |
| 1:59.8 | Palacchi, do you want another useless bit of trivia before we get on with the serious business? |
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