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Giro 2012 Stage 18 mapGiro d'Italia: Stage 18 Preview - San Vito di Cadore to Vedelago 149 km
Classified as a flat stage, but the likelihood is that most of the sprinters who contested the finishes in the opening week or so will be long gone by now, and the mountains will have taken their toll on the ability to control the race of some teams who might want to do so.
With a drop of more than 900 metres from start to finish and only one climb of any note at Cesiomaggiore, just after halfway, it looks like being a fast one, and taking place in one of Italy’s cycling heartlands means there’s an extra incentive for some of the smaller home teams perhaps to put on a show. This is also a must win stage for Mark Cavendish if he wants to win the points jersey as the final three stages are not going to offer him much in the way of point scoring opportunities.
GT: Again, this could be a sprint but it depends whose around by then. I’m sure if there’s a decent sprinter left [and there is] then they’ll try and do it, even so-called second tier sprinters, they could really be up for having a go here.
For more on this year's race read our full Giro d'Italia Preview.
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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