Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro D’Italia Route Rumors

[Red Rick]

Stage 14 is a proper meme stage. Small chance it could actually be a sprint if the break is bad enough.

 

[Escarabajo]

This Giro is pretty field dependent. Hindley may be inclined to want to race the Tour now that he has crossed the Giro off his list.

Apart from Evenepoel, Almeida and maybe Roglic I don't see many of the top 10 GT riders inclined to race the Giro

Lopez. Probably. If Vino does not get another GT rider then He could be inclined to keep Lopez for the Tour.

 

[Red Rick]

Lopez. Probably. If Vino does not get another GT rider then He could be inclined to keep Lopez for the Tour.

Lopez sounds exciting apart from the fact that it's gonna be 2023 and not 2018

 

[Andy schleck]

This Giro is pretty field dependent. Hindley may be inclined to want to race the Tour now that he has crossed the Giro off his list.

Apart from Evenepoel, Almeida and maybe Roglic I don't see many of the top 10 GT riders inclined to race the Giro

Almeida is going to the tour, just like hindley.
Roglic vs evenepoel would be a great battle.

 

[Tim Cahill]

What an utter piece of brilliance. GT cycling is finally saved. I am in. That is it. Congrats to all of you who advocated for this. You won, You have saved what we loved. Thank you and hello. This is the beginning. The curtain has risen.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

-Roglic
-Evenpol + Masnada
-Almida
-G Thomas
-S Yates
-Arensman?
-Landa?
-Bora might send Vlasov if no Hindley
-heard rumours that Belgian Pozzato is going.
-Maybe Jungels can give GC another go
-Gino Mader?

 

[Andy schleck]

A really bad route. We will have to wait until stage 13 to have a proper mountain stage. Lago laceno and grand sasso are a mountain jokes. Not even proper medium mountain stages in first one week and half.
I don't like a route with three ITTs, it's ridiculous, and even more the distance of every ITT. One ITT of 50/60 km it's better than one ITT of 18, and other of 33 km. A proper ITT should have more than 50 km.
The last ITT should be a pure MTT with just mont lussari.
I like tre cime di lavaredo and crans montana stages.
Where are the mythical climbs like gavia, finestre, fauniera that was rumoured to comeback to the giro last year? Stelvio? Vegni is getting worse, unlike the organization of the tour, that are doing each year, better routes.

 

[OlavEH]

Almeida is going to the tour, just like hindley.

Is this something that is confirmed or just an assumption?

 

[sir fly]

I don't expect decisions about participation to be brought quickly.
Unless the Tour eases the conundrum.

 

[red_flanders]

I mean, there are lots of obvious deficiencies with this route and I don't think it's unreasonable to complain about those. In spite of that, it's obvious even to a regular criticaster like me that this route is better than any GT route in 2022, and probably also 2021. Like I said upthread, I legitimately like the route and it should deliver provided we don't get three weeks of Carapaz and Hindley spending every high mountain stage looking at each other again.

There are always deficiencies according to someone. I've just been here too long and seen too many gripe threads.

 

[Andy schleck]

Is this something that is confirmed or just an assumption?

Rtp journalist from portugal called marco chagas, said on live tv during the tour, that he talked to almeida, and he said to him that next year he will do the tour with pogacar.

 

[Red Rick]

So there's no climb profiles on the Giro site yet? When do those usually appear? There's a few I can't really find I think.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Is anyone on here familiar with the Croix de Coeur descent?

 

[red_flanders]

Remco was peaking for the Vuelta, Hindley was not in a really good form. If both are peaking for the same event, Remco still would be far ahead of Hindley but not 6-7 just in time trials.

He'll also drop him on most of the climbs.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Lopez sounds exciting apart from the fact that it's gonna be 2023 and not 2018

I guess Vlasov could be here if Hindley goes to the Tour and Thomas has shown some interest (ok, maybe wishful thinking).

 

[red_flanders]

-Roglic
-Evenpol + Masnada
-Almida
-G Thomas
-S Yates
-Arensman?
-Landa?
-Bora might send Vlasov if no Hindley
-heard rumours that Belgian Pozzato is going.
-Maybe Jungels can give GC another go
-Gino Mader?

Why didn't you put the second tier gregarios for the other riders in the list?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why didn't you put the second tier gregarios for the other riders in the list?

Remco is not a second tier gregario, he is quite talented actually

 

[KZD]

-Roglic
-Evenpol + Masnada
-Almida
-G Thomas
-S Yates
-Arensman?
-Landa?
-Bora might send Vlasov if no Hindley
-heard rumours that Belgian Pozzato is going.
-Maybe Jungels can give GC another go
-Gino Mader?

Vlasov would be a proper candidate for the podium and a good outside bet for the win. A good climber and time-trialist as well. I don't think this is a good route for Simon Yates and I would finally like to see him go for the Tour GC but he always prefers the Giro so dunno. Lopez could very well come too just like Ciccone and Caruso. @Andy schleck, as for Almeida, on the UAE emirates topic there was an article saying that he will race the Giro again in 2023 and I don't think that he will do Giro-Tour so I wouldn't trust too much what that journalist said. Unless they are going to send Adam Yates to lead in the Giro but he can't podium this unlike Almeida.

 

[Red Rick]

Is stage 18 this climb?

 

[gavia88]

So there's no climb profiles on the Giro site yet? When do those usually appear? There's a few I can't really find I think.

there are:

https://www.giroditalia.it/il-percorso/

 

[Red Rick]

there are:

https://www.giroditalia.it/il-percorso/

Ah I missed the tab for climb details thanks

 

[Andy schleck]

Why didn't you put the second tier gregarios for the other riders in the list?

It's so sad when you have to put masnada in a list, just because italy doesn't have a better rider to grand tours than him, and the only thing that he's gonna do his give bottles to remco.

 

[red_flanders]

Remco is not a second tier gregario, he is quite talented actually

Well played, sir.

 

[red_flanders]

It's so sad when you have to put masnada in a list, just because italy doesn't have a better rider to grand tours than him, and the only thing that he's gonna do his give bottles to remco.

Well to be fair, no one HAD to put Masnada in the list...

 

[Andy schleck]

Well to be fair, no one HAD to put Masnada in the list...

Or put "fausto" instead of masnada. It wouldn't be so embarassing. People could think that could be fausto.....coppi.