Race thread: 🇮🇹 Tour of Italy 2026 (Southern Italy week), May 12–17 - sh.itjust.works

Here is the situation after 3 days of apathy and hospitalisations in Bulgary: General time classification It was only determined by the punchy 2nd stage and a couple of time bonuses. 1. Guillermo Silva 🇦🇷 Astana 2. Florian Stork 🇩🇪 Tudor: +4″ 3. Egan Bernal 🇨🇴 Ineos: ’ 4. Thymen Arensman 🇳🇱 Ineos: +6″ 5. Julio Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: ’ 6. 29 riders: +10″ … and about the same number at 1′ ---- Points classification 1. Paul Magnier 🇫🇷 Soudal-QS: 105 pts 2. Jonathan Milan 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: 64 3. Tobias Andresen 🇩🇰 Decathlon: 42 4. Madis Mihkels 🇪🇪 EF: 32 5. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 28 ---- Mountain classification 1. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 42 2. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 12 3. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma: 9 4. Mirco Maestri 🇮🇹 Polti: 8 5. Allessandro Tonelli 🇮🇹 Polti: 6 ---- Teams classification 1. Astana 🇰🇿 2. Tudor🇨🇭 ’ 3. Uno-X 🇳🇴 ’ 4. Movistar 🇪🇸 ’ 5. RB Bora 🇩🇪 ’ 6. EF 🇺🇸 ’ ----------- ----------- Stages (TODO: I shall add them progressively) Stage 4, Tuesday 12 138 km, low difficulty (50 pts), 5 km sprint zone, 3″ splits An even shorter course than stage 1, with the same profile as stage 3, but a nastier last mile. A sprint is to be expected again, favouring the sprinters who can handle an uphill finish; even though a breakaway could have its chances in theory, as the line is closer to the climb than it was in stage 3. [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/12754dda-72f4-4ea9-9d28-8950ed442193.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1b74038c-ed40-46cc-93f9-138b97116b2c.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/06e25862-e2a5-416c-9c46-4143d19b1800.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/3f84747f-21e1-4a3d-8b81-7af1db1556e4.png] ----- Stage 5, Wednesday 13 203 km, medium difficulty (25 pts), 3km sprint zone, 1″ splits This stage is made for breakaways or punchers-climbers, but will they take their chance this time? [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f9b6063b-3726-4f7b-a61f-d7de5b8b176f.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1f2ef3bc-0a3d-47ac-9cea-059138f48006.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b8814a16-e0e4-447e-bd97-0c1ccfc5f06e.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/99894fea-346b-48f5-bdc9-efc0e95bd773.png] [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b0840e29-d805-4005-b0c0-53587f36665b.png]