Stage 20 | Gemona del Friuli 1976-2026 - Piancavallo | Giro d’Italia 2026
5/30/20261 hr 2 min
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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First 90 secondsMichele Pelacci· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You're listening to Giro Vacanza, the cycling podcast, at the 2026 Giro d'Italia. The cycling podcast, every day on the ground at the Giro d'Italia since 2016. Today we are in Piancavallo.
Daniel Friebe· Host0:22
[singing] Pelachi, a year ago we stood on the finish line in S- Limone Piemonte. No, it, it wasn't Limone Piemonte, it was Sestriere. Sestriere. We stood on the finish line, penultimate day of the Giro d'Italia. A Visma Lease a Bike rider was about to win the Giro d'Italia, and what a sensational penultimate day. It was full of suspense, heart-stopping suspense. Not much suspense today, is there?
Michele Pelacci· Host1:02
No, not much. Everything was going as a planned, right? As Visma planned. The best team controlled the race the entire day, 201 kilometers. They didn't care. Jonas Vingegaard didn't take much of a risks. He was attacking on the very first ramps of the second ascent to Piancavallo, and the rest is history.
Daniel Friebe· Host1:23
The perfect stage, a perfect microcosm of this Giro d'Italia, Pelachi, because we've had a lot of summit finishes, and all of the summit finishes