2014 Giro d'Italia Stage 18 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 18 of the 2014 Giro d'Italia! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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Luca Scinto Says: The San Pellegrino will be ridden at tempo, with 60-80 riders going over the top together. Then there will be attacks on the second climb because there are mountains points to be won. The GC riders won’t do anything until the last climb – my guess is that 30-40 of them will hit it together. It’s 16km long and consistently steep. They have two huge days ahead of them so I don’t think much will happen before the final kilometres. That could change if one of the maglia rosa contenders is having a really bad day though. For me, today’s stage winner will be a very good climber who has no GC aspirations at all.
Local History: Riccardo Menapace from Termeno rode his first Giro in 1938, the year Mussolini sent all the star riders to the Tour de France. Menapace finished third among that edition’s many independent riders but after the war chose to take Austrian nationality. He won the Tour of Austria in 1949 and 1950, the latter aged 35.
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