From Trentino to Veneto for the eighteenth stage: Thursday 28 May, Fai della Paganella-Pieve di Soligo, 168 km. Departure at 1.15pm, undulating fraction from start to finish. Follow the Adige and Brenta valleys to continue on an undulating, but mostly downhill route, up to Primolano. You tackle the short climb of the Scale di Primolano (here Fausto Coppi fell in the 1950 Giro and fractured his pelvis) to enter the Piave valley and after Valdobbiadene overcome the short climbs of Combai, Tarzo and Ca’ del Poggio (9 km from the finish) before the finish line in Pieve di Soligo. The Ca’ del Poggio Wall, which has become a fixed destination for all cycling enthusiasts, including foreigners, measures 1100 meters with an average gradient of 12.3% and peaks at 19% after 500 metres. 17 km from the end, there is the Red Bull KM flying finish line with bonuses for the ranking: 6″, 4″ and 2″. The last kilometers are all slightly downhill with two curves in the final 1000 metres: the last one leads into the 300 m slightly uphill finishing straight. Bonuses for the ranking of 10″, 6″ and 4″.
the situation
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We start again with Jonas Vingegaard in the pink jersey. The 29-year-old Dane from Visma-Lease a Bike has a 4’03” lead over Felix Gall, 4’27” over Thymen Arensman, 5’00” over Jai Hindley. The best Italians: Piganzoli eighth at 7’57”, Caruso ninth at 8’34”. So are the other jerseys: Jonathan Narvaez has the cyclamen one for the points, Jonas Vingegaard the blue mountain one, Afonso Eulalio the white one of the young people. In teams he leads the Visma-Lease a Bike of Vingegaard.
