S14 Ep45: Stage 11 | Porcari (Paper district) - Chiavari | Giro d’Italia 2026
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 68 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 2026 Giro d‘Italia.
Today the race rolled from Porcari to Chiavari on a tough 195km medium-mountain stage, with a breakaway-friendly finale along the Ligurian coast. So how did it pan out?
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | Today we are in Chiavary. Palachi Daniele. |
| 0:39.3 | Salute. |
| 0:40.3 | Cunasera. |
| 0:41.3 | Cinchin. |
| 0:42.3 | Where are we? |
| 0:43.3 | What a beautiful setting, Pelachi. |
| 0:44.3 | No barone tonight, and he would love it here, wouldn't it? |
| 0:48.3 | He would love this setup that we've got for ourselves. |
| 0:51.3 | Just explain it. |
| 0:52.3 | Describe it to the listeners, please. |
| 1:00.8 | So we're having a sprits, a Campari Spritz in beautiful Longomare here in Chiavary. |
| 1:04.7 | We've got a long beach in front of us. There is a sun out. |
| 1:05.8 | Disserted beach? |
| 1:09.7 | Yes, but also, you know, you've got Ombreloni out, umbrellas. |
| 1:13.7 | We're ready for the summer season. And yeah, we could see some frittura di marre today was eaten you know how do you say that fried fried seafood yeah amazing stuff |
| 1:22.4 | this is liguria is best with the sun out early in the year yeah very ch Verro Chichiklizmo today, wasn't it? |
| 1:28.3 | Real Chichlizmo, it was a perfect Jurydite day. |
| 1:30.3 | We always get one of these pelace every year where we say that's what the Jurydita Italia should look like. That's what it's supposed to look like. Listen, the weather forecast for the next week is sensational. Certainly, well, certainly on the planes anyway. |
| 1:43.1 | I'm not sure when we go to the mountains. |
| 1:44.5 | Do you know who would love it here? |
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