Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 10: route, altimetry, favorites and TV times

Bologna, 19 May 2025 – The dirt stage, a small Strade Bianche, has turned the rankings upside down Giro 2025, made Isaac's talent even more and better known Del Toro, but above all brought Wout back to victory Van Aert. The video from the flagship where the sports directors of Visma encouraged the Belgian on the radio was beautiful: 'do it for your children, it's your day', the key phrase to encourage him to hold on to the Mexican's flaming wheels. And in Piazza del Campo he won, to the delight of cycling fans who had seen first-hand the disappointment of a series of defeats that were hard to accept. Then, there was the fight for the general classification and Primoz paid the price. Roglic, delayed due to a fall involving him. The Slovenian will have to try to make up for it immediately in the time trial in Tuscany. The Italians are holding up, with Tiberi e ciccone widely in the running.  

Timeline

Almost flat time trial, and for specialists, of 28 kilometers from Lucca to Pisa. It will be a hard ride and climbers could suffer. Departure in Lucca with an almost complete tour of the city walls. You then reach the state road through the southern area of ​​the city and the route, after the first intermediate measurement in Pontetetto at kilometer 8, becomes practically straight always with a very slight climb up to the Monti Pisani tunnel (950 m). It is four kilometers of light climb, nothing particularly hard, but it will be necessary to generate a high pace. After the exit, a series of wide and fast hairpin bends leads to San Giuliano Terme and from there to the hamlet of Asciano. Always along straight roads you reach the town of Pisa 3 km from the finish. Arrival in the center next to the leaning tower.

Favorites

The favourites are the time trialists, one above all: Joshua Tarling already winner in Tirana. Primor could threaten him Roglic, who also has to make up ground in the standings, but also watch out for Jay wine, Edward Allied Products, Mathias Vacek and Brandon McNulty. In terms of the standings, in addition to Roglic, also Juan Ayuso He will have to send a signal to his teammate in the pink jersey Isaac Del Toro, while the blue Antonio Tiberi, who is good at competing against time, will have to gain ground on the climbers Carapaz, Ciccone, Yates and Bernal.

TV schedules

The Pisa time trial will be held on Tuesday 20 May with the first rider starting at 13.15pm and the pink jersey starting around 17.15pm. An average speed of between 50 and 54 km/h is estimated with travel times of between 31 and 34 minutes. Live free-to-air from 12.40pm on Raisport HD, channel 58 on digital terrestrial, then switching to Rai Due for the stage finale. Streaming on Raiplay. Live for a fee on Eurosport 1, channel 210 on Sky, and streaming on Discovery Plus and Dazn. Read also - Giro 2025, Wout Van Aert's high point. Del Toro in pink