The first of the Giro d’Italia’s big mountain stages to Blockhaus shuffled the general classification but kept the race very much alive.

Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they assess the winners and losers from stage nine. Who bounded up the stairs three at a time and who pressed the button for the basement in the elevator? Who scaled the ladders and who slipped down the snakes?

We also visited a key sight in the 1860s unification of Italy, we heard from one of the stars from the breakaway and asked what the leading GC teams weigh up when deciding which riders should and shouldn’t be allowed to get up the road.

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S10 Ep41: Stage 9 | Isernia – Blockhaus | Giro d’Italia 2022