Friday the 13th and a safety stage in the Giro that could mark before and after

13th Friday and the second stage is really difficult in 15th edition of the Giro d’Italia. A day that can be defined as fractures of the legs, with continuous rise and fall, with four major ascents spread over 196 kilometers of the sun and ending in the city of powerwith the last 350 meters with an average gradient of 8% and a maximum of 13%, a difficult result that could sink some of the runners called protagonists here. Turn around or embarrass them.

Before this decisive moment, the survivors of the Giro have to ride a bike with all five senses, at a stage that quickly starts with its roller coaster, where it will ride fast and where the qualities that leakage is likely to shake the current hierarchy of the platoon.

There is terrain and challenges to cause more than one scare to the peloton. It is enough to see the four ports that should be crowned by the corridors, along with their respective descents: Colla Pass 3rd category, (km 45, 9 km of ascent with maximum ramp of 12%), Mount Sirino (1st category in km 90, 24 km of ascent with an average slope of 3.8% and maximum 12%), Monte Grande di Viggiano (2nd category, at 135 kilometers, 6.6 km of ascent with 9.1% average gradient and maximum 15%) and The Sellata (Third category at kilometer 172, 7.8 km of climb average 5.9% and ramps up to 12%).

A field in which the Sevillian JJuan Pedro Lopez there is no need to have much trouble to keep the pink jersey of the leader, because the Lebrija he defends well uphill, but it depends on how his team runs, how the other formations approach the race and how they read the stage. ‘Juanpe’ he has a 1’42 ”margin at the top of the table in the first classified favorite overall, Simon’s Yachtsat 1’42 “.