{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"2026 Giro d’Italia | The Preview","description":"On Friday, the first Grand Tour of the season rolls out from Bulgaria, not Italy – and, as always, we’ll be there, on the ground, to bring you all the action from the Giro d’Italia.\n\nThis year’s “Corsa Rosa” starts here, with our race preview and the troika who’ll take you on the journey to Rome over the next three weeks: Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci. Before sinking our teeth into the Giro, though, we discuss the first big headline of the week: Paul Seixas’s announcement that he’ll be riding the Tour de France.\n\nIt’s then time to talk about the Giro, focusing first on the favourites, then moving into the beautiful canvas upon which Jonas Vingegaard et al. will hopefully create cycling art over the next three weeks.\n\nEPISODE SPONSOR\n\nNordVPN\nGet NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee.\n\nFollow us on social media:\nTwitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast)\nInstagram @thecyclingpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thecyclingpodcast/)\n\nFriends of the Podcast\nSign up as a Friend of the Podcast at thecyclingpodcast.com (http://thecyclingpodcast.com/) to listen to new special episodes every month plus a back catalogue of more than 300 exclusive episodes.\n\n2026 Girovagando selection:\nYou can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.\nThe wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:\nStage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)\nStage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)\nStage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)\nStage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)\nStage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)\nStage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)\n\nThe 11.01 Cappuccino\nOur regular email newsletter is now on Substack. Subscribe here (https://thecyclingpodcast.substack.com/) for frothy, full-fat updates to enjoy any time (as long as it’s after 11am).\n\nThe Cannibal & Badger\nFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our virtual pub, The Cannibal & Badger. A friendly forum to talk about cycling and the podcast. Log in (https://thecyclingpodcast.supportingcast.fm/) to your Friends of the Podcast account to join in.\n\nThe Cycling Podcast is on Strava (https://www.strava.com/clubs/thecyclingpodcast)\n\nThe Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.","author_name":"The Cycling Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1405050-the-cycling-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43630135/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}