S14 Ep41: Stage 8 | Chieti - Fermo | Giro d’Italia 2026
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 65 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 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. |
| 0:13.7 | The cycling podcast, every day on the ground at the Girod Italia since 2016. |
| 0:20.9 | Today we are in Firm. |
| 0:39.8 | Brian, the barone, good-sera. |
| 0:40.7 | Bonacera, Daniel. |
| 0:44.1 | Brian, you've been, you're tired today, aren't you? |
| 0:44.7 | Yeah, I am. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm not getting as much sleep as I usually do. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.7 | And I'm not driving as much as I'm used to. |
| 0:59.0 | You have to be fresh behind the wheel, so I'm very focused when I'm behind the wheel. Extremely focused. |
| 1:00.0 | You dialed in, aren't you? |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, very. |
| 1:03.0 | Every day. |
| 1:04.0 | Brian, what a fantastic day. |
| 1:05.0 | A real sort of Giro di Italia, pure Giro di Italia, 100% Chicismo kind of day today. It left me feeling, Brian, that we've been talking. And I can't remember how much of this has been on the podcast or how much of it has been at dinner, but we've been talking about how to give the Giro d'Italia a new identity. I was standing up there, just up the hill from where we are currently. We're having a nice select sprit, although we're not in the Veneto yet. |
| 1:30.1 | Infermo, waiting for the race to come to us. |
| 1:33.5 | And I thought to myself, if I was a jury director, and we talked about that eventuality yesterday. |
| 1:40.0 | Because I suggested it last night. |
| 1:42.3 | If I was jury Italian director, do you know what? |
| 1:46.4 | The identity of the judithu d'italia would be, |
| 1:47.2 | it would be... Just this. It would be eight stages like this. Yeah. Because this is the geography of Italy. Yeah. This stage like this represents Italy perfectly. Hills up town. And then you go to the mountains as well, and then you have some completely flat stages. in the Venetor, of course. |
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