2014 Giro d'Italia Stage 8 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 8 of the 2014 Giro d'Italia! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
Course Preview
Luca Scinto Says: You’re going to see some extremely nervous cyclists today. Carpegna is a mythical climb but it’s also an extremely hard one. It may be that nothing happens on it but if any of the GC group start to lose contact on it you’ll see attacks going off all over the place. Everyone knows this is the first big theatre. You can’t win the Giro d’Italia here but you can certainly lose it. The last four kilometres are extremely steep and there will be a battle there come what may. Obviously we’re still a long way out, but anyone who can’t go with it here can probably forget about fighting for the overall later on when we reach the Dolomites.
Local History: José Manuel Fuente’s 1974 ascent of Monte Carpegna represents the high watermark of his struggle with Eddy Merckx and marks the day Merckx seemed beaten. However, the ‘Cannibal’ regained time in the TT and when Fuente suffered a hunger flat on a stage to Sanremo, Merckx secured his fifth and final Giro.
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