2024 Giro d'Italia stage 12 - preview

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May 16, 2024: Martinsicuro - Fano, 193km

The pack rides in Termoli during the 11th stage of the 107th Giro d'Italia cycling race, 207km between Foiano di Val Fortore and Franca Villa al Mare, on May 15, 2024. (Photo by Luca Bettini / AFP)
The peloton will ride along the Adriatic Coast for a second day on stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia (Image credit: Luca Bettini / AFP / Getty Images)
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Stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia leads riders north with the opening section along the Adriatic coastline from the start in Martinsicuro and 193km later will deliver the goods in Fano, which is ripe for a breakaway on Thursday. The first 50km are flat, and when the course veers inland at Fontespina, there are a series of unrelenting small climbs that build to the crescendo back on the coast.

The second day in the second week of the Italian Grand Tour has been compared to a route from the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico by race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who said the string of 10 short, very punchy late climbs reminded him of a day at the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico, one where Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) rode a solo breakaway to a spectacular victory. 

Four of those 10 climbs are classified as category 4, and a final ascent of Monte Giove is unclassified but with 10 kilometres remaining to the finish it tilts skyward with gradients of 20%. 

“It’s going to be really crazy for getting in a break, I think, unless somebody in the bunch has other ideas. But I doubt it, this is stage 12 of the Giro. So everyone else will want their shot in the break and it will be a hard stage to control,” Pogačar said after finishing safely in the peloton on Wednesday to remain in the maglia rosa.

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Stage 12 Sprints

  • Intermediate sprint, km. 77.5
  • Intergiro bonus sprint, km. 147.8
  • Time bonus sprint, km. 161.4

Stage 12 Mountains

  • Osimo (cat. 4), km. 93.2
  • Monsano (cat. 4), km. 126.8
  • Ostra (cat. 4), km. 138.4
  • La Croce (cat. 4), km. 150.6
Jackie Tyson
Jackie Tyson
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Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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