2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 6 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 6 of the 2019 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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The 6th stage of the Giro d'Italia travels on rolling to hilly terrain from Cassino to San Giovanni Rotondo. At 233 kilometres, the route is likely to lead to a day for the breakaway or a sprint of a selected peloton.
The Giro visited Cassino in 2014. A crash in the town shook up the peloton just before hitting the final climb to Montecassino, the Benedictine Abbey on a rock plateau above Cassino. Michael Matthews, Tim Wellens, Cadel Evans, and Matteo Rabottini survived the 8.6 kilometres ascent before crossing the line in that order.
Cassino is included in the 2019 Giro d’Italia as a start. The riders head on hilly terrain to the race’s southernmost point in San Giovanni Rotondo. Although the route is hardly ever flat, it doesn’t feature hard climbs either. A downhill false flat of 50 kilometres runs to the foot of the biggest challenge of the day. The ascent to Coppa Casrinelle appears at kilometre 204.5. The route climbs 16 kilometres at approximately, and this might be too much for some sprinters. A short drop leads to an equally short climb before the finale is a dozen kilometres on flat to mildly downhill roads.
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