Giro 2025 Favourites stage 18: For fast men, or breakaways

The climbing is packed into a section starting at kilometre 30 and finishing 60 kilometres later. The riders tackle four climbs in succession: 7.6 kilometres at 6.2%, 4.6 kilometres at 3.3%, 9 kilometres at 4.4%, and 3.1 kilometres at 4.1%.

The first and toughest climb comes well before the finish. However, as the best sprinters in the Giro (Pedersen, Kooij, Van Aert, Groves) are not afraid of a few uphill sections, their teams could easy to control the race in order to set up a sprint finish in Cesano Maderno.

On the other hand, we’re in the final week of a Grand Tour, and it wouldn’t be the first time that breakaway riders succeeded in a stage that would have been one for the sprinters in the first week.

Favourites 18th stage 2025 Giro d’Italia

*** Olav Kooij, Mads Pedersen, Kaden Groves
** Wout van Aert, Taco van der Hoorn, Dries De Bondt, Ben Turner
* Kasper Asgreen, Mathias Vacek, Timo Kielich, Corbin Strong, Max Kanter

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