Giro d'Italia 2016: Stage 8 preview
By Cycling News
published Stage map and profile
The second of three Apennine stages that will lure the GC riders into battle. There is no uphill finish, unlike on stages 6 and 10, but this sloane safari through the middle-class holiday haunts of Umbria and Tuscany does feature the 2016 Giro’s only stretch of sterrato, or gravel road, up to Alpe di Poti.
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