Giro d'Italia 2024 Giro d'Italia route rumours

[Devil's Elbow]

A halfway decent MTF in week 1?

That's illegal!

We literally had Blockhaus in the same slot last year...

 

[nightowl]

No idea of the veracity of these but it’s something I guess?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701729567327580633

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1701729567327580633

 

[Eshnar]

No idea of the veracity of these but it’s something I guess?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701729567327580633

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1701729567327580633

They should be pretty accurate. But in general we know a lot less than usual this year. I've been collecting rumours but can't tell anything with confidence yet.

The presentation is on October 13th.

 

[Netserk]

They should be pretty accurate. But in general we know a lot less than usual this year. I've been collecting rumours but can't tell anything with confidence yet.

The presentation is on October 13th.

How much is known about the Lombardia route? It's just 3½ weeks away ffs ...

 

[Eshnar]

How much is known about the Lombardia route? It's just 3½ weeks away ffs ...

gonna finish in Bergamo. The presentation is next Tuesday. That's all I know

 

[Netserk]

Thanks. Should be better than last year.

 

[nightowl]

They should be pretty accurate. But in general we know a lot less than usual this year. I've been collecting rumours but can't tell anything with confidence yet.

The presentation is on October 13th.

If they are finishing at Passo Coe like in 2002, I wonder what that stage would look like. Seems like the best option is using a similar route/climbs as this year’s stage to Bondone but I wonder if they’d do that?

 

[Poursuivant]

Final stage to Rome??

 

[Red Rick]

Thanks. Should be better than last year.

Bergamo going 2014 route wouldn't be very good.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Thanks. Should be better than last year

Would like to see a repeat of the 2016 route.

 

[Netserk]

Would like to see a repeat of the 2016 route.

That would be fabulous. But I expect to see Ganda again. I just hope that it will be followed by the full Selvino ascent this time around, something like this.

 

[roundabout]

I think I read somewhere (Le Grupetto maybe?) that it will be the same route as in 2021, but I kind of hope that it will not be the case.

 

[Monte Serra]

Grande partenza likely to be in Torino:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1703086231691649325

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1703086231691649325

 

[Red Rick]

Grande partenza likely to be in Torino:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1703086231691649325

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1703086231691649325

Bocca di Forca>Monte Grappa one time?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

As per the article, they would approach Sappada from the east (contrary to the 2018 stage), over Duron, Sella Valcalda and Sappada. The latter two climbs also featured in the famous 1987 stage.

The presentation being in Trento definitely lends further credence to the Coé rumour.

 

[Red Rick]

Sounds like we're gonna go an unprecedented amount of time without any of Mortirolo, Finestre or Zoncolan

 

[Mayomaniac]

As per the article, they would approach Sappada from the east (contrary to the 2018 stage), over Duron, Sella Valcalda and Sappada. The latter two climbs also featured in the famous 1987 stage.

The presentation being in Trento definitely lends further credence to the Coé rumour.

Sappada from the other side also means that they'll ride througgh godforsaken villages like Rigolato. I'm not even joking, the area between Forni Avoltri and Comeglians is pretty much at the end of the world. Anyway, that probably means we'll at least see all the old houses in Plodn/Cima Sappada and a Sappada stage is always a good excuse to have Lisa Vittozzi on our screens.
But yeah, more of a potential ambush stage that the full blown gc stage that we had in 2018 (that one featured many of my training climbs).

 

[Monte Serra]

Sounds like we're gonna go an unprecedented amount of time without any of Mortirolo, Finestre or Zoncolan

The Mortirolo was on the course last year. (And their absence won't be unprecedented anyway, considering the fact that none of these climbs featured in the Giro before 1994.)

 

[Netserk]

The Mortirolo was on the course last year. (And their absence won't be unprecedented anyway, considering the fact that none of these climbs featured in the Giro before 1994.)

The fake side. But those three climbs are part of the Giro's modern mythology. Only Gavia and Stelvio are in the same league.

 

[ChiefMasterPro]

Although Zoncolan is epic, Finestre and Mortirolo always deliver great racing because they are super hard but the finish normally is still a bit to go. That creates awesome racing with long range attacks and in todays cycling it also could create tactical chaos whilst the breakaway forms. Even though we know that the final of the Giro might be in the Dolomites, there still is chance that Mortirolo or Finestre are included late in the second week or on stage 16.

Mortirolo the last four times it was used was always on stage 16 which also was each time that Giros queen stage.

 

[Gigs_98]

Although Zoncolan is epic, Finestre and Mortirolo always deliver great racing because they are super hard but the finish normally is still a bit to go. That creates awesome racing with long range attacks and in todays cycling it also could create tactical chaos whilst the breakaway forms. Even though we know that the final of the Giro might be in the Dolomites, there still is chance that Mortirolo or Finestre are included late in the second week or on stage 16.

Mortirolo the last four times it was used was always on stage 16 which also was each time that Giros queen stage.

The fools just need to descend Zoncolan and it's gonna be epic enough. Oh well, I feel like with rider protests and all of that, this is only moving further away.

 

[nightowl]

The fools just need to descend Zoncolan and it's gonna be epic enough. Oh well, I feel like with rider protests and all of that, this is only moving further away.

What they should do for the Cima Sappada stage is go up the old road from Priola to the junction with the new road, descend back to Sutrio, then go over Sella Valcalda to the finish.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The fools just need to descend Zoncolan and it's gonna be epic enough. Oh well, I feel like with rider protests and all of that, this is only moving further away.

The Zoncolan descent ist totally fine, only the First part is steep but overall it's a nice descent without risky parts.
Maybe once Vegni finally geht's deported to North Korea...

 

[OlavEH]

Very tough stage in Veneto - does that mean Zoncolan?

So now we have Folgaria/Passo Coe, Sappada, perhaps Monte Grappa and a very tough stage in Veneto? That would probably be most of the GC stages the last week.

A Grande Partenza in Torino. Does this mean no big mountain stages in the western Alps unless they return to Piemonte/Aosta in the third week?

MTF at Prati di Tivo is okay, but they certainly need much more in the Apennines if they aren't using the western Alps.

 

[yaco]

What the Giro needs is a balanced route with no backloading - It's not hard to have 6 sprinter stages, 6 High Mountain stages, one ITT and the other eight stages can be hilly or rolling.