Preview - Giro d'Italia 2022 stage 10

Another tricky day in the Giro d'Italia. The first 100 kilometers are pan-flat by the Adriatic sea, very easy to control on a normal day, but will there be teams interested in doing so?

It will depend on how some riders feel, as this day can finish in a sprint, be fought between puncheurs/rouleurs, and everything inbetween.

As the riders head inland the race becomes a different beast, with plenty hilltops to tackle. The hardest of which with 67 kilometers to go (3Km at 6.9%). The decisive section of the stage comes in the final 40 kilometers to go. 40, 35 (1Km, 5%), 30 (2.7Km, 4.2%), 21 (1.9Km, 5.3%) will set things up. Attacks can be made, a hard pace can be implemented, or it can be a conservative ride if no-one has many ideas of attacking the race.

The final hilltop is Monsano, 1.7Km at 6.1% and it comes with a mere 9 kilometers to go. What will happen in it? The gradients definitely allow attacks, but I can only detail you what the riders will go through, their actions will dictate how the race will look like afterwards.

The finale in Jesi sees a fast descent into town. The final kilometer is essentially flat, however it does feature an average gradient of 2%, not something that is decisive, however if it comes down to a sprint of there is a solo rider trying to survive, every detail matters and the fact is that the gradients do rise slightly into the finish.

CyclingUpToDate prediction:

**** Mathieu van der Poel

*** Biniam Girmay, Magnus Cort Nielsen

** Vincenzo Albanese, Andrea Vendrame, Mauro Schmid

* Simone Consonni, Diego Ulissi, Caleb Ewan, Natnael Tesfatsion

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