Giro 2022 - Stage 15: Rivarolo Canavese – Cogne 177 km ***Spoilers***
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Stage 15: Rivarolo Canavese – Cogne 177 km
Sunday, May 22nd, 11:15 BST
The first real Alpine stage is played out in the Valle d'Aosta. The 177 kilometres route sets off from Rivarolo Canavese, then takes in three long consecutive ascents, to finish in Cogne after a climb of 22.4 kilometres. These climbs are on wide and well-paved roads, with a number of hairpins in-between. Both is followed by a fast-running descent.
Once the flag has been dropped the riders race towards Ivrea, where they turn north to follow the Dora Baltea river upstream. The first 57 km of this stage are mostly flat going along the valley. At 86 km to go, the first climb of the day starts and there will barely be any flat to be found until the end of the stage. After the second climb, the route returns to exactly the same spot where it began – in Aymavilles. After crossing the Dora Baltea again the route continues in the valley of the Torrente Grand’Eyvia and the climb to Cogne.
The Climbs:
Pila-Les Fleurs: GPM1, 12.3 km at 6.9%. 30 years absent from the Giro.
Verrogne: GPM1, 13.8 km at 7.1%. Included in the 2019 edition.
Cogne: GPM1, 22.4 km at 4.3%. Hard at the start but little more than a false flat for the last 10kms.
Final kms
Over the last 4 km, from the centre of Cogne (with a short stretch of flagstone) all the way to the finish, the gradient hovers around 2.5% (kicking up a little just outside Cogne). The home straight is 300 m long, on tarmac road.
What to expect:
An elevation gain of almost 4,000 metres and an uphill finish would suggest it to be a day for the GC, especially as a rest day follows.
However, the finishing gradients are very moderate and the weekend GC battle has already taken place.
So the breakaway is more of a straightforward choice, with those with the best legs, to come to the fore over the initial climbs and the guy with the best kick, to take the win.
Favourites 15th stage 2022 Giro d’Italia
***** Bauke Mollema, Thomas De Gendt
**** Davide Formolo, Wout Poels, Koen Bouwman, Lennard Kämna
*** Guillaume Martin, Rein Taaramäe, Santiago Buitrago
** Tobias Foss, Giulio Ciccone, Sam Ooman
* Wilco Kelderman, Diego Rosa, Mauri Vansevenant, The GC.
Rivarolo Canavese
Rivarolo Canavese is in the plain, at the end of the Piedmontese valleys of the National Park of Gran Paradiso. It is 304 mt high of the sea level, and it is the most important and crowded centre of the Western Canavese, with its about 12.500 inhabitants. In 2020 the Regione Piemonte granted the town the title of Distretto Urbano del Commercio. (Trade Centre)
In Rivarolo you can find excellent restaurants, delicious pastry shops and very popular ice-cream parlours, where the Piedmontese, and in general the Italian tradition is always respected according to the ancient way, next to a new and modern look at the contemporary cookery, trying a good and exquisite use of the raw materials.
At the end of June, in Mastri, a cute hamlet of Rivarolo, there is “TOMINO” festival. Tomino is a kind of fresh or aged cheese produced in this area.
The famous “SALAMPATATA”, a DE.CO product ( Common Designation),is a fresh salami with potatoes inside that you can eat in the cold season uncooked – the best way- or cooked in the oven.
Cogne
Situated in the Aosta Valley region, Cogne, at 1,544 meters above sea level, in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park. Once an important mining centre for the extraction of iron, Cogne is now one of the “Pearls of the Alps”, a tourist resort famous for the quality of its hospitality which it has developed while respecting and safeguarding its natural heritage.
Close by to Cogne lies the Gran Paradiso, the only one of the 4 “four thousand” in the region – Mont Blanc, The Matterhorn and Monte Rosa being the others.
Gastronomy
In addition to the Fontina DOP, produced throughout the territory of Aosta Valley, you can also taste other cheeses made from cow’s and goat’s milk as well as other milk derivatives, such as locally produced butter and yogurt.
Typical of the Aymavilles area, located at the entrance to Cogne valley, is Favò, a delicious traditional dish based on broad beans, Fontina DOP cheese, black bread toasted in butter, sausages, bacon and pasta, which goes well with a fragrant red wine like the Torrette DOC.
Sunday, May 22nd, 11:15 BST
The first real Alpine stage is played out in the Valle d'Aosta. The 177 kilometres route sets off from Rivarolo Canavese, then takes in three long consecutive ascents, to finish in Cogne after a climb of 22.4 kilometres. These climbs are on wide and well-paved roads, with a number of hairpins in-between. Both is followed by a fast-running descent.
Once the flag has been dropped the riders race towards Ivrea, where they turn north to follow the Dora Baltea river upstream. The first 57 km of this stage are mostly flat going along the valley. At 86 km to go, the first climb of the day starts and there will barely be any flat to be found until the end of the stage. After the second climb, the route returns to exactly the same spot where it began – in Aymavilles. After crossing the Dora Baltea again the route continues in the valley of the Torrente Grand’Eyvia and the climb to Cogne.
The Climbs:
Pila-Les Fleurs: GPM1, 12.3 km at 6.9%. 30 years absent from the Giro.
Verrogne: GPM1, 13.8 km at 7.1%. Included in the 2019 edition.
Cogne: GPM1, 22.4 km at 4.3%. Hard at the start but little more than a false flat for the last 10kms.
Final kms
Over the last 4 km, from the centre of Cogne (with a short stretch of flagstone) all the way to the finish, the gradient hovers around 2.5% (kicking up a little just outside Cogne). The home straight is 300 m long, on tarmac road.
What to expect:
An elevation gain of almost 4,000 metres and an uphill finish would suggest it to be a day for the GC, especially as a rest day follows.
However, the finishing gradients are very moderate and the weekend GC battle has already taken place.
So the breakaway is more of a straightforward choice, with those with the best legs, to come to the fore over the initial climbs and the guy with the best kick, to take the win.
Favourites 15th stage 2022 Giro d’Italia
***** Bauke Mollema, Thomas De Gendt
**** Davide Formolo, Wout Poels, Koen Bouwman, Lennard Kämna
*** Guillaume Martin, Rein Taaramäe, Santiago Buitrago
** Tobias Foss, Giulio Ciccone, Sam Ooman
* Wilco Kelderman, Diego Rosa, Mauri Vansevenant, The GC.
Rivarolo Canavese
Rivarolo Canavese is in the plain, at the end of the Piedmontese valleys of the National Park of Gran Paradiso. It is 304 mt high of the sea level, and it is the most important and crowded centre of the Western Canavese, with its about 12.500 inhabitants. In 2020 the Regione Piemonte granted the town the title of Distretto Urbano del Commercio. (Trade Centre)
In Rivarolo you can find excellent restaurants, delicious pastry shops and very popular ice-cream parlours, where the Piedmontese, and in general the Italian tradition is always respected according to the ancient way, next to a new and modern look at the contemporary cookery, trying a good and exquisite use of the raw materials.
At the end of June, in Mastri, a cute hamlet of Rivarolo, there is “TOMINO” festival. Tomino is a kind of fresh or aged cheese produced in this area.
The famous “SALAMPATATA”, a DE.CO product ( Common Designation),is a fresh salami with potatoes inside that you can eat in the cold season uncooked – the best way- or cooked in the oven.
Cogne
Situated in the Aosta Valley region, Cogne, at 1,544 meters above sea level, in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park. Once an important mining centre for the extraction of iron, Cogne is now one of the “Pearls of the Alps”, a tourist resort famous for the quality of its hospitality which it has developed while respecting and safeguarding its natural heritage.
Close by to Cogne lies the Gran Paradiso, the only one of the 4 “four thousand” in the region – Mont Blanc, The Matterhorn and Monte Rosa being the others.
Gastronomy
In addition to the Fontina DOP, produced throughout the territory of Aosta Valley, you can also taste other cheeses made from cow’s and goat’s milk as well as other milk derivatives, such as locally produced butter and yogurt.
Typical of the Aymavilles area, located at the entrance to Cogne valley, is Favò, a delicious traditional dish based on broad beans, Fontina DOP cheese, black bread toasted in butter, sausages, bacon and pasta, which goes well with a fragrant red wine like the Torrette DOC.
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With that weather forecast, it should look stunning.
Today they will miss the opening salvos of the breakaway battle. Not sure whether they will stick to advertised schedules or until matches are completed.
Carapaz down but appears unhurt.
Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
Any ideas?
Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
I will update for you unfortunates.
53 kms covered in not much more than one hour and still the battle of the breakaway goes on.
Very alpine now.
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Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet