Here are Czesław Lang's scenarios. This is what the last kilometer will look like.

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The route from the "Gołębiewski" Hotel Karpacz to Karpacz is nearly 150 km long. The total elevation gain is approximately 2,000 meters. The final kilometer is a climb with an average gradient of 8.2%. The Tour de Pologne and Orlinek have a long-standing relationship, and great things have happened here. What will it be like this time? We asked Czesław Lang, who raced in Karpacz as a cyclist and led the peloton over this hill many times as the organizer of the Tour de Pologne.

"Tuesday, the second stage of the Tour de Pologne, will show the form of the favorites. 150 km isn't a huge distance, but we know the finish line. But let's start from the beginning. We're starting at the "Gołębiewski" Hotel in Karpacz, a place known to all who value comfort and good conditions, including those for an active lifestyle. The route will quickly climb, and in fact, stage two is designed in such a way that there's almost constant action. I expect breakaways, as it's a good opportunity, but I'm also betting that the finish line will be different. There won't be a sprint from a large group at Orlinek; I think a smaller group will arrive there, from which a winner will emerge, and the entire peloton will be disjointed. No one will win the general classification here yet, but it will slowly start to take shape, and someone might have to say goodbye to their dreams of success."

And Orlinek itself? I remember this climb from many occasions. I won the Polish Mountain Championships there myself! Let me put it this way: it was never easy. It might seem easy at first, you're going gently uphill, nothing happening, but from the roundabout on, it's all out. When I think of Orlinek, I think that this is probably the climb where the Tour de Pologne was most often held. There were editions and stages where cyclists would climb this climb five or six times in one day! And I also remember one edition with a time trial, won by the then-unknown Spaniard Alberto Contador. He won, and in the years that followed, he went on to have a stunning career. Who will cross the finish line first this time? I know who the Polish fans are counting on, but I also know that anything can happen there. The last kilometer will most likely decide it; you have to go full throttle there!