After yesterday’s punishment of the 31.2 kilometer individual time trial, today the Italy is spinning faced with one of the longest and most difficult stages of this edition, 222 kilometers and 5,400 meters of elevation gain. Today the 107th Corsa Rosa faces one of the decisive stages, a very difficult mountain day that comes after the second individual time trial and before the second rest day. A day where the word rest does not exist at the beginning, with the appearance of the first difficult climb at kilometer 37 and the ascent of one of the mythical cycling passes such as Mortirolo75 kilometers from the finish line.
A stage where there will probably be a quality break, where Tadej Pogacar will try to decide if he can turn the luck of the Giro in his favor to face the final week more calmly, in the last two climbs of the day. in the last nine kilometers: Foscagno Pass (1st category, 15 km climb at an average slope of 7.7% and maximum ramps of 19%) and the outcome in Livigno (4.7 km of climbing at an average slope of 7.7%), not to mention the climbs before Lodrino (3rd, km 37, 7.6 km at 4.4%) and Colle di San Zeno (2nd, km 64, 13.7 km at 6.7%), which in turn is ahead of the colossus of Mortirolo (1st, 12.6 km at 7.7% average and 16% ramp). However, to the joy of runners, this year the Mortirolo climb through Edolo slopewhich is commonly used as a descent, the ‘softest’.
Stage that the organization considers the highest difficulty, high mountain with a path and finish above 2,000 meters, which can break into a thousand pieces at any moment, which will push all the cyclists to the limit and where the force.
Source: La Verdad
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