Stage 15 Fiume - Asiago (219.0km)
After several relatively easier stages, the fifteenth stage forms the finale of the second week. And even now it's certainly not the most difficult stage of the entire Giro. Along the way awaits the difficult Monte Grappa, but actually you could mainly see this as a 'pre-Alpine stage', as the organization itself describes it. A precursor to the real work, thus.
That Monte Grappa might ring a bell, because a year ago Tadej Pogacar secured his final victory in the Giro d'Italia there. The climb was waiting twice then, only this time the organization chooses a different side of the climb than was the case then.
It concerns the side from Romano d'Ezzelino, from which riders tackle the climb via the historic 'Strada Cadorna'. The riders only went down there in the past decades, so it's quite unique that we now get to see that side as a climb. It's no less than 25 kilometers uphill at 5.8%. The descent now goes towards Feltre.
Afterwards, again a substantial number of climbing kilometers must be covered. This time not a first, but a second-category climb towards Dori, good for 16.3 kilometers at 5.5%. Something tells us that the escapees might well get a free hand here too.
Particularly because on the top of that climb, it continues to undulate for about thirty kilometers, until the riders arrive in Asiago, the largest of the seven Sette Comuni enclaves of the Veneto region that played a major role during the First World War.
Stage 15 Fiume - Asiago (219.0km)
After several relatively easier stages, the fifteenth stage forms the finale of the second week. And even now it's certainly not the most difficult stage of the entire Giro. Along the way awaits the difficult Monte Grappa, but actually you could mainly see this as a 'pre-Alpine stage', as the organization itself describes it. A precursor to the real work, thus.
That Monte Grappa might ring a bell, because a year ago Tadej Pogacar secured his final victory in the Giro d'Italia there. The climb was waiting twice then, only this time the organization chooses a different side of the climb than was the case then.
It concerns the side from Romano d'Ezzelino, from which riders tackle the climb via the historic 'Strada Cadorna'. The riders only went down there in the past decades, so it's quite unique that we now get to see that side as a climb. It's no less than 25 kilometers uphill at 5.8%. The descent now goes towards Feltre.
Afterwards, again a substantial number of climbing kilometers must be covered. This time not a first, but a second-category climb towards Dori, good for 16.3 kilometers at 5.5%. Something tells us that the escapees might well get a free hand here too.
Particularly because on the top of that climb, it continues to undulate for about thirty kilometers, until the riders arrive in Asiago, the largest of the seven Sette Comuni enclaves of the Veneto region that played a major role during the First World War.