Stage 21 | Roma - Roma | Giro d’Italia 2026
5/31/20261 hr 35 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 secondsSilvia Bertaldo0:00
[upbeat music] You're listening to Giro Vacante, 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 not in Rome.
Daniel Friebe· Host0:23
[singing] For the final time, buonasera, Michele Pelacchi.
Michele Pelacci· Host0:40
Ciao, Daniele. We are back for 21st stage.
Daniel Friebe· Host0:44
We're separated by several hundred kilometers. We're still in Italy, Pelacchi, but oh, what a s- what a sad, what a sad sight. You're there sitting there with your top off. [laughs] That's sort of first, the first sight. What I meant, Michele, was that you're on my computer screen and you- and you're not sitting in front of me because our paths have diverged this morning. We already announced yesterday that as usual, we're not going to Rome for various reasons, um, practical reasons, ecological reasons. We'll put that there as well. Michele, and hence you're in Parma.
Michele Pelacci· Host1:15
Yeah.
Daniel Friebe· Host1:16
You've returned to the home of the- We are in Parma today. Yeah, you've, um, returned to the home of the Pelacchi Prosciutto empire. [laughs] And I am somewhere in a secret location in the hills of Val- Valpolicella above