After three days in Albania and then three sprint stages in Italy, stage 7 of this year's Giro d'Italia will see the race really ramp into action with the hardest stage yet and a parcours guaranteed to shake up the general classification.
Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) currently wears the pink jersey after six days of racing and three wins for the Dane but, with 3,390m of climbing and a steep uphill finish on the cards on Friday, he will almost certainly pass his lead onto a new rider come the end of stage 7.
