Keep your stops short and few.
Eat before you’re hungry, drink before you’re thirsty.
Never get too tired to eat or sleep.
Add a layer before you’re cold, take one off before you’re hot.
Lay off wine, meat and tobacco on tour.
Ride within yourself, especially in the first hour.
Never show off.
The Giro’s third week took place in my neck of the woods, northeastern Italy, and I was able to see three of the stages.
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Tournai - Mont de l’Enclus 190.6 km
Essentially a Flemish-Walloon classic that will be won by a strong classics sprinter. A race that would have us salivating on a Wednesday in March but now it just seems a little confusing.
Estimated finish time: 17:15-17-45 CEST
Le Roi de Ronse: Axel Zingle
Maybe he has found his groove and will keep winning now. But there’s no shortage of strong competition. Girmay and Sheehan to round out the podium?
Official Site , Startlist
Puget-Théniers - Valberg 168.2 km
Time to warm up for summer racing in France. Warming up for the warming up race that is the Dauphiné so to speak. Has been good racing the last few editions.
Estimated finish time: 15:40-16:15 CEST
SouthAlpian of the Day: David Gaudu
The startlist isn’t stacked but it’s got some interesting second tier guys that can be fun to see when they don’t have the absolute bigs to contend with.
Official Site , Startlist
Roma - Roma 125 km
Short and sweet and with one final sprint is how we say arrivederci to Italy for this year.
Estimated finish time: 18:30-18:55 CEST
Romanista of the Day: Milan (Jonatan)
Milan winning in Rome, it’s the dream of every editor on this site.
Official Site , Startlist
The Course
Flat run around Rome.
The Favourites
It should be a sprint but there’ll be late attacks. I’ll guess it ends up Ganna, Affini and Valgren vs the Sprint teams. Who you got for the finale??
Here is the startlist.
The Rules
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Alpago - Bassano del Grappa 184 km
They really have saved some of the best for last in this Giro. The mighty Monte Grappa twice in one day.
Estimated finish time: 16:55-17-40 CEST
Digestivo of the Day: Tadej Pogačar
Tadej wants it. What Tadej wants, Tadej gets.
Official Site , Startlist
Photo by LUCA BETTINI/AFP via Getty Images
Mortegliano - Sappada 157km
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while others are roaming around italy and norway for the next three days, there are also intrepid adventurers exploring the wilds of france. technically this is a four-day race, though there is only live video for Stages 1-3, as the race started with a 5.4km mostly flat Prologue which was won by that well-known time trial specialist, Benoit Cosnefroy.
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