Preview: What you need to know about stage 11 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia
Preview: What you need to know about stage 11 of the 2022 Giro d'Italia
Date: Wednesday May 18
Start: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Finish: Reggio Emilia
Distance: 203 km
The profile below tells the story. This is a pan-flat day through Emilia-Romagna that is likely to end in a bunch sprint. That said, the forecast does call for some high winds, which could add at least a little bit of intrigue to the day.
Who’s it for: The sprinters.
Dane Cash’s picks: At this point, Mark Cavendish, Arnaud Démare, and Caleb Ewan seem pretty closely matched. As fast as Démare was en route to victory on stage 6, had any number of tiny tactical details been different, things could have gone a different way. I might like Ewan a bit better than most for stage 11, but I don’t like him significantly more than Cavendish or Démare in what looks like a dead heat.
Fernando Gaviria, Giacomo Nizzolo, Mathieu van der Poel, and – if he’s healthy enough to race – Biniam Girmay are also worth watching on the day.
