PREVIEW | Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 18

The Corsa Rosa is the first Grand Tour of the season and this year it will include a start in a nation that will for the first time in it's history host a Grand Tour, Albania; and also several mountain stages in it's second half whilst the first half will feature some tricky stages including one that goes through a lot of the Strade Bianche course. We preview stage 18.

Stage 18 will be the penultimate opportunity for the sprinters, however this late in the race there will be a lot of riders looking to attack the first half of the day to try and form a strong breakaway. Into Cesano Maderno, we should have a thrilling day of action amongst many riders.

There are four climbs on the day and the most difficult one is the first one, which is 7.6 kilometers long at 5.8%... If the group only goes up the road here, it can be a very strong one, and with such short distances on the day it can be quite hard to keep up a hard pace to bring them back.

The final climb ends with 56 kilometers to go, and then there is one hour of racing left into Cesano Maderno as the riders leave the lakes region and head towards the outskirts of Milano. The finale isn't too technical and it is completely flat.

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