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Spencer Martin and Andrew Vontz discuss the Giro d'Italia's course design and the challenges faced by Jonas Vingegaard in the general classification.

Spencer Martin and Andrew Vontz discuss the ongoing Giro d’Italia, debating whether the race has successfully designed an interesting modern course and, most importantly, whether it is providing a safe racing environment for the riders and teams. They also discuss the GC situation thus far, and check in on Jonas Vingegaard’s assumed GC victory, which has already run into more resistance than anticipated thanks to Decathlon’s Felix Gall. Follow Andrew’s path to beating cancer here BTP Newsletter: Get Daily Giro Breakdowns ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to Andrew’s Choose the Hard Way Podcast Follow Spencer & Andrew on Strava This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beyondthepeloton.substack.com/subscribe

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Host: Spencer Martin

Guest: Andrew Vontz

Topics covered

• Giro d'Italia
• Jonas Vingegaard
• race safety
• general classification
• cycling course design

Keywords

• Giro d'Italia
• Jonas Vingegaard
• Felix Gall
• cycling
• race safety
• general classification
• course design

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Organizations: Decathlon

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