{"id":7137,"date":"2016-05-19T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/giro-2016-mountain-stages-preview\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:36:25","slug":"giro-2016-mountain-stages-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/giro-2016-mountain-stages-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giro Has Reached the Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past twelve stages you couldn’t win the race, but you could lose it. The task of the captains fighting for the general classification and their teams was to reach this evening’s dinner with the smallest possible losses, because tomorrow the real Giro begins!<\/p>\n

The Giro Has Reached the Mountains!!!<\/h3>\n

Before the last rest day: two brutal mass-start mountain stages and a mountain time trial<\/h5>\n

\"Giro<\/a><\/h4>\n

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\"Giro<\/a><\/h4>\n

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\"Giro<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Table of the GC contenders<\/h4>\n

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The photos used in this post show stage 20 of last year’s Giro<\/p>\n

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Featured image: Yuzuru SUNADA<\/em>\/www.yuzurusunada.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Inside post thumbnail image:\u00a0Yuzuru SUNADA<\/em>\/www.yuzurusunada.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Special thanks to the Japanese photographer Yuzuru SUNADA<\/a> for permission to use his works in our publications.<\/p>\n

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Translated from Georgian with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), reviewed by the Velorbola editors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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