TDF 2024:- Stage 3: Piacenza - Turin 230.5km ***Spoilers***
Stage 3: Piacenza - Turin 230.5km
July 1st
Start Time: 10-15BST
Stage 3 of the Tour de France 2024 is a 230.8km flat road stage from Piacenza to Turin.It features a visit to Tortona, which was home to Il Campionissimo Fausto Coppi. Although the route features three KOMs, the hills are nothing special. Neither in length, nor in gradients. The riders cross the Po Valley from east to west. Therefore the race between Piacenza and Turin is likely to see a fast finishers showdown.
Profile.
Map.
The Climbs.
Côte de Tortone Fausto Coppi (Cat. 4)
Côte de Barbaresco (Cat. 4)
Côte de Sommariva Perno (Cat. 4)
Côte de Barbaresco (Category 4)
The climb of the Côte de Barbaresco is 1.5km at an average 6.5%, to a height of 263m after 156.1km raced.
The climb is through Barbaresco vineyards.
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Last Kilometres
Leaving Moncalieri, the race takes the Strada Torino along the left bank of the Po.
There's a sharp left over the Ponte Principessa Isabella di Savoia (Princess Isabelle of Savoie bridge), joining the Corso Dante Alighieri on the far side of the river.
Then there's one more sharp turn, this one to the right onto Corso Massimo d'Azeglio. It runs past the Parco and Castello del Valentino.
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What to Expect.
Probably a big crash, or maybe several smaller ones. After all, this is the first, nailed on sprint finish. The sprinter teams to control, the GC teams to hit the front at around the 10km mark, the elbows to start nudging from about the 5 km mark and a frenetic last km. In other words, we all know what to expect.
PIACENZA
Municipality of Emilia-Romagna
No previous stage.
Population: 103,000
Piacenza and Cycling.
Piacenza's best-known and most successful cyclist is none other than 2010-2011 double world road champion Giorgia Bronzini, who also won five stages in the Giro. Known for her fun-loving personality, the former points race specialist now heads up the Lidl-Trek women's team, which she took over in 2019 at the end of her career.
Other than that, Piacenza is the hometown of Georgio Armani.
Specialities: anolini (pasta), pancetta, coppa, bortellina (pancakes), pisarei e faso (pasta with beans), mostarda di frutte (fruit with mustard), turtei (pasta filled with spinach and ricotta). Colli Piacentini wines. Gutturnio and Bonarda (red wines), Ortrugo and Mavasia (white wines)
Anolini from Piacenza
Anolini is a type of stuffed egg pasta from Emilia, more specifically from Parma and Piacenza. They are prepared by placing balls of filling between two sheets of pastry and cutting around the filling with special metal moulds that can be circular or with serrated edges; the pressure of the mould secures the edges of the pastry sheet. The filling is based on beef. After cooking, the meat is finely chopped with the vegetables from the cooking base, then salt, nutmeg and egg are added before kneading with parmigiana.
Pisarei e fasò
This simple, rustic dish hails from Piacenza and is prepared with merely a few humble ingredients. Namely, the word pisarei denotes tiny dumplings made with flour and breadcrumbs, whereas fasò is a thick tomato flavored sauce made with a base of onions, lard, and mashed borlotti beans.
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Turin
Capital of Piedmont
Stage town for the fifth time.
Population: 843,000
TURIN AND CYCLING
Thanks to its proximity to the French border, Turin has already featured on the route of the Tour de France four times, in 1956, 1961, 1966 and 1996. Since 1876, Turin has been the finishing town for Milan-Turin, the oldest cycling race still organised, which in recent years has seen such diverse profiles as Alberto Contador, Rigoberto Uran, Thibaut Pinot, Primoz Roglic and Mark Cavendish or Arnaud Démare raise their arms. Its last winner was Dutch sprinter Arvin De Kleijn. The Giro has stopped here almost 50 times, the last stage winner being Simon Yates in 2022. It was in Turin that Serse Coppi, Fausto's brother, died in 1951 after a crash during the Tour of Piedmont.
Specialities: agnolotti (stuffed ravioli), tajarin (truffle pasta), Barolo risotto, polenta carbonara, chicken chasseur, stuffed artichokes, gianduiotto (chocolate), Bicerin, vermouth. Gressins. Sabayon.
Gianduja
Gianduja is a paste of chocolate and finely ground hazelnuts, to which other nuts (almonds or, more rarely, walnuts) may also be added, along with icing sugar and fat (cocoa butter, pastry butter or crème fraîche). A successful gianduia is characterised by its creaminess. One hypothesis is that the name derives from a character in the commedia dell'arte nicknamed "Gioan d'la douja" (John of the pint), or "Gianduja". This character was to become one of the symbols of Turin.
Vermouth.
Vermouth is a quintessential European aperitif. This sweetened and fortified wine is aromatized with various botanicals, and it is usually classified as red (sweet) or white (dry). The origin of vermouth is ancient and closely connected to wormwood wine, but the first official vermouth was produced in Turin by Antonio Benedetto Carpano.
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Comments
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Looks as if the weather might turn wet for a while, mid stage. Hopefully things will have dried up by the time they reach Turin.
The finish has a technical turn with 700 metres to go, so the last thing the peloton needs is rain. Especially as it will be Kirby hyperventilating on the stage finish.
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Yep, thunderstorms for Alessandria for much of the afternoon according to the BBC. Wind speeds are disappointingly light though, I was hoping for crosswinds.
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FWIW, I've found the BBC weather forecast to be reliably unreliable. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Looks a bit overcast at the ville depart.
JHB isn’t doing the pre stage link for once. Instead we have Kirby “battle planning” it up, (one of his most stupid catch phrases) and yup, you guessed it- going through a list of favourites ftw.
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Orla absolutely roasting Adam Blythe for claiming Pogacar didn't try to engineer his way out of yellow is probably the most interesting thing that will happen until the last 5km
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Is he nailing his colours to the mast with a shortlist of less than 50 contenders?
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29kmh and nobody wants to go out for a 200km break.
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YR.NO the Norwegian forecaster is my favoured site, better than the Danish met office
And we finally have an attempt to get a break, a Uno-X towing Abrahamsen in green. Could be a long two up time-trial for them today, nobody else seems interested
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It's Kulset with Abrahamsen, the youngest rider in the peloton
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We will be spending the entire day in the Po valley.
Only 220km to go
Our two up have 1'30"
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If he gets the three KOM points on offer today, that puts him on 26 points.
There's 20 for Galibier, 5 for each of the other climbs tomorrow, so he probably keeps the jersey through to the TT. Reasonable chance of holding it through to the Pyrenees.
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This is going to take FOREVER
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
The peloton are so stingy these days that the BOTD lasted 10kms.
It’s going to be a whole lot of nothing today for over 5 hours.
zzzzzzzztage.
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Situations like this could come to bite you ....there's going to be a lot of fresh legs in the rear part of this stage
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
I don't think the Uno-X boys thought the joke was worth pulling out for another 200km
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Cav (rightly) complaining he had 180km in a bus THIS MORNING to the race start. That's insane
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Wait, they brought the break back? Who did that?
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Erm.. thunderstorms forecast this afternoon so maybe not
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Only 200 k to go
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
Ripping along at 38kph…
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Nairo
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It's going to be a long day, I was taken by surprise to switch on at 11.00 and see the race already in progress.
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Definitely more of a pattern we're seeing, a bit like late 80s racing. Balls out for a few days and they take a recovery day when it's flat.
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That's a very broad definition of "in progress" you're using there.
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Feels like a piece of piss in a 175 rider bunch on the flat though (well, for an hour or so anyway).
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Looks like the Jumbo DS wasn't the only one who wanted to get home for tea as the peloton is fully strung out now.
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Arkea being told to move up because the wind might be picking up. I think that's massively paranoid
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Smart thinking. Spread fake rumours of crosswinds, everybody tries to move up, we get to Turin sometime before Wednesday.
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