Today’s stage in the Giro d'Italia will offer a new opportunity for the sprinters. The twelfth stage takes the riders from Noale to Bibione and the course is entirely flat. Inthe end, two local laps will be covered before the riders reach the finish line. The local lap is tricky as it contains a lot of difficult corners.

André Greipel said:

“Yesterday, we knew that the final would be too hard for the sprinters. We wanted to keep Maxime, Tim and Jelle in the front as good as possible and that turned out well. Today, we will cover the flattest stage in this year’s Giro. We aim for another stage win, but therefore we’ll have to race wisely. The break cannot contain too many riders as it will be hard to control the race if that’s the case. We need to be attentively at the front of the peloton, especially when we enter the final laps. Each local lap contains sixteen corners so the positioning will be extremely important. I only thought about this stage since my last victory. It will be my final stage though; tonight I go home.”