After the punishing day on the Colle delle Finestre, the Giro d’Italia Women serves up one last test in the final stage in Saluzzo: Montoso.
It’s a climb that, with the general classification still in play, could turn into an unexpected detonator – 8.9 km at an average gradient of 9.4% in the Cottian Alps, on the slopes of Monviso above Bagnolo Piemonte, numbers that speak for themselves; true, it comes a long way from the finish (around 90 km), which might encourage the favourites to ride conservatively, but if anyone decides to make a move, it could trigger chaos and deliver a Giro Women finale anything but predictable.