S14 Ep56: Stage 20 | Gemona del Friuli 1976-2026 - Piancavallo | Giro d’Italia 2026
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 68 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, Giroditao. |
| 0:13.6 | The cycling podcast, every day on the ground at the Girod Italia since 2016. |
| 0:20.4 | Today we are in Piancavalho. The last few year ago we stood on the finish line in... |
| 0:43.3 | Limone Piemonte. |
| 0:45.3 | No. |
| 0:46.3 | It wasn't Limone Piemonte, it was Sestriere. |
| 0:49.3 | We stood on the finish line Penozo Day, the Giro d'Italia, |
| 0:52.3 | a Visima Lisa Bike Rider was about to win the Girod Italia, and what a sensational penultimate day. the Giro d'italia. Visma Lisa bike rider was about to win the Girod Italia and what a sensational |
| 0:56.0 | penultu day it was full of suspense, heart-stopping suspense. |
| 1:00.0 | Not much suspenses today, is that? |
| 1:02.0 | No, not much. |
| 1:04.0 | I don't think it was going as a planned, right? |
| 1:07.0 | As Visma planned. |
| 1:09.0 | The best team controlled the race the entire day |
| 1:11.7 | 201 kilometers they didn't care you know Svingegar didn't take much of a |
| 1:17.0 | risk he was attacking on the very first ramps of the second Ocent Piancavalo and the |
| 1:22.2 | rest is history the perfect stage a perfect microcosm of this Jurydita |
| 1:26.4 | Pellachi because we've had a lot of seven finishes and and all of the summit finishes pretty much, I keep using this phrase, where it's how transparent this Jira has been. |
| 1:34.7 | We've seen exactly how good each of these riders is on each one of these summit finishes, and there's been no snakes and ladders, there's been no movement, really, and there't been any sign of weakness from Jonas Wingard and it was one criticism of a posterior in Italia. |
| 1:49.0 | It's been that, but we've had an exciting race anyway, mainly because of who? The Motel maestro, Larry. |
| 1:55.0 | Oh yeah, of course. What a brave ride by Larry today. We had some Bardianismo as well, but Daniele, |
| 2:01.6 | interesting comparison you made |
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