Comments on: Giro 2022 Route stage 19: Marano Lagunare – Castelmonte https://www.cyclingstage.com/giro-2022-route/stage-19-italy-2022/ Cyclingstage.com: stages, routes, riders and results Sat, 28 May 2022 05:57:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Burkhar https://www.cyclingstage.com/giro-2022-route/stage-19-italy-2022/#comment-19486 Fri, 27 May 2022 10:54:40 +0000 https://www.cyclingstage.com/?p=19057#comment-19486 Kolovrat actually means spinning wheel.

]]> By: Milan Malej https://www.cyclingstage.com/giro-2022-route/stage-19-italy-2022/#comment-19447 Sat, 21 May 2022 08:08:29 +0000 https://www.cyclingstage.com/?p=19057#comment-19447 As a Slovene, I would just play a little with the name of the hardest climb on this stage – Kolovrat… “Kolo” in Slovene means “Cycle” or “Bike”. “Vrat” is a “neck” or something above the shoulders… You can translate also as “”hold your bike for its neck”… So the steepness of this “hill” (almost 1000 m altitude) is something that will force the riders to push their bikes with their “shoulders” (handlebars) upwards :-))

One more serious thing, when we have fun observing an supporting the riders… Just again in Slovenia, over the border of the stage finish at Santuario de Castelmonte, the most difficult ecological and health pollution far around (in Anhovo) is happening for decades. A cement factory is burning the huge amounts of “non-dangerous” waste from north Italy and Friuli… And people are dying for lung cancers… The capital is holding these people literary for their necks… And this happens together with our uncritical support of the professional sport masters… So, I propose that the priests there and cyclists and organizers give a mass for all these people (with Eurosport and RAI reports, too). I am sure, many cycling funs will attend, too…

Regards, Milan

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