S14 Ep42: Stage 9 | Cervia - Corno alle Scale | Giro d’Italia 2026
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia. Today, ahead of the second rest day, they head further north as the race heads from Cervia to Corno alle Scale.
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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 at Corno Al Escal. |
| 0:37.3 | Brian, how do you say, goodasera in Romanian? |
| 0:41.3 | I'm not sure. We should also want this chap. |
| 0:44.3 | Excuse me. |
| 0:45.3 | Say how you say, goodasera in Romano? |
| 0:48.3 | Goodsera. |
| 0:49.3 | Oh, good-sera. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, well, we can do the rest of this podcast in Romanian then. Yeah. Well, we're drinking in an alcohol-free Romanian beer called Ursus. Ursus, we know the translation of that. That's bear. And Brian, we're in a Romanian bar close to, well, the race course. We thought it was a Sardinian bar because Sardinian words have a lot of use at the end and |
| 1:13.2 | Romanian words also do hence our mistake we thought that's what we were but we're not |
| 1:18.4 | Brian the riders are coming down from the top of the mountain we're standing just by the team |
| 1:23.8 | they're coming around a mountain when they come when they come but, but it's been a long time, hasn't it? |
| 1:28.3 | It's about an hour after the finish now. |
| 1:30.3 | Something like that. |
| 1:31.3 | Oh, oh, drinks are happening here. |
| 1:33.3 | We're now being offered some Romanian... |
| 1:34.3 | What is? |
| 1:35.3 | Some Romanian delicacies in liquid form. |
| 1:40.3 | Grazie mila. |
| 1:41.3 | Grazie, mila. |
| 1:43.3 | Grazie. Cherry, some kind of cherry liqueur. Fantastic. Awesome. Salute. Sorry for that interruption. All kinds of barbecuing and drink. I'm not. I'm not sorry about that. The listeners can't smell what's wafting over and lots of meat being barbecue. This is a... Tough. Tough. Anyway, Brian, look, let's get back to the action. As I said, the riders are coming down, team cars are coming down. We might have to interrupt the podcast as I dive off to interview some of the direct sports teams that are arriving. Brian, before we go any further, I want to issue a Maya Colper. Yesterday I made a horrific, a horrible error, I think. I haven't listened back to yesterday's podcast. I think a horrific a horrible error i think i haven't listened |
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