Key Takeaways: Giro d'Italia Stage 19

Breaking down how a stage that featured a scenic foray into the Carnic Alps was won

After riding a perfectly executed tactical race on a high-speed stage up the Friulian plain and through the remote hamlets of the pine-covered Carnic Alps, Andrea Vendrame won Stage 19 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia out of an elite breakaway with Movistar’s Pelayo Sánchez and EF’s Georg Steinhauser rounding out the stage podium. With every rider capable of d…