08 Saturday 17 May FOLIGNO MON TECOPIOLO
SCINTO SAYS…
A true test for all the climbers
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.
Ivan Basso (Cannondale) is in the twilight of his career and it’s on stages such as this that he will show whether he still has what it takes to challenge the young guns