{"id":245414,"date":"2026-05-27T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/giro-ditalia-stage-17-live-long-punchy-day-promises-to-be-one-for-the-breakaway\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:17:38","slug":"giro-ditalia-stage-17-live-long-punchy-day-promises-to-be-one-for-the-breakaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/giro-ditalia-stage-17-live-long-punchy-day-promises-to-be-one-for-the-breakaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d&#8217;Italia stage 17 LIVE: Long, punchy day promises to be one for the breakaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Refresh <i class=\"fa fa-refresh\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T10:17:38+00:00\">2026-05-27T10:17:38.811Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-2e5273f5-dbf0-4c61-8c29-311960d01c79\">Large crowds have assembled in Cassano d&#8217;Adda to see the riders off from the unofficial start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T10:16:01+00:00\">2026-05-27T10:16:01.251Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-a9450409-230d-4270-b56c-a493bb8d3956\">With such a breakaway-friendly parcours, and with 16 teams still lacking a stage win at the race, there will be a huge number of riders wanting to get into the breakaway, so brace yourself for another hectic start to the stage as riders fight to form the definitive group.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"elk-cc14ea31-9b35-4360-bef3-bd5c5bd034a9\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:66.70%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JQEuB3jaj8JmpNvTyTGJG4-1024-80.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JQEuB3jaj8JmpNvTyTGJG4-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JQEuB3jaj8JmpNvTyTGJG4-970-80.jpg.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JQEuB3jaj8JmpNvTyTGJG4-650-80.jpg.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JQEuB3jaj8JmpNvTyTGJG4-480-80.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JQEuB3jaj8JmpNvTyTGJG4-320-80.jpg.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/>\n<\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside id=\"seasonal_0\" class=\"hawk-root\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T10:06:01+00:00\">2026-05-27T10:06:01.991Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-4e6bcf3a-1758-42ce-865c-e4e5ad70591e\">With such a breakaway-friendly parcours, and with 16 teams still lacking a stage win at the race, there will be a huge number of riders wanting to get into the breakaway, so brace yourself for another hectic start to the stage as riders fight to form the definitive group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T10:00:21+00:00\">2026-05-27T10:00:21.907Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-6b71fd45-d89a-4c53-82b8-69ec64d4aa1f\">Today\u2019s parcours has one outcome written all over it: breakaway success. Not hard enough for the GC riders, but too hard for the sprinters, many riders will have spied this as one of, if not the, final chance to win a stage, and will therefore put their all in making this one succeed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T09:53:58+00:00\">2026-05-27T09:53:58.507Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-60d5d9e4-a23f-47d9-bc8a-5901a2d27834\">Here&#8217;s our preview of the stage.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/2026-giro-d-italia-stage-17-preview\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/2026-giro-d-italia-stage-17-preview\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/2026-giro-d-italia-stage-17-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia stage 17 preview \u2013 Big breakaway battle expected on a long day with just three minor climbs but 3,300 metres of elevation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside id=\"seasonal_0\" class=\"hawk-root\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T09:52:04+00:00\">2026-05-27T09:52:04.450Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-88ed4061-e000-449a-96da-9543903dae81\">After yesterday\u2019s excursion into the mountains, and fourth stage victory for Jonas Vingegaard, today\u2019s parcours is far punchier, with three category three climbs, plus an uphill to the finish<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcp-item-content\">\n<time class=\"no-wrap live-feed-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-27T09:47:06+00:00\">2026-05-27T09:47:06.888Z<\/time><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-4083357d-6864-41f2-aaee-43c857366bb8\">Buongiorno and welcome to stage 17 of the Giro d&#8217;Italia!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/live\/giro-d-italia-stage-17-live-long-punchy-day-promises-to-be-one-for-the-breakaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refresh 2026-05-27T10:17:38.811Z Large crowds have assembled in Cassano d&#8217;Adda to see the riders off from the unofficial start. 2026-05-27T10:16:01.251Z With such a breakaway-friendly parcours, and with 16 teams still lacking a stage win at the race, there will be a huge number of riders wanting to get into the breakaway, so brace yourself for another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6804],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}