Giro 2014 Route Rumours

[Eshnar]

This is the list of the stages, I believe that 99% of the Giro d'Italia 2014 will be this.

http://www.giroditaliaciclismo.com/giro-ditalia-2014/giro-ditalia-2014-le-tappe-anteprima/

thanks. They look exactly the same as those I posted.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

This financial audit issue. Is this but a temporary/technical acquaronesque problem or will it have any impact in the coming financial year. I'm doubting it will, but have no idea

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Isolated from the rest of the stage Rifugio Panarotta and Montecampione looks like great climbs. Long and fairly steep. Too bad there aren't any climbs which can be used in close connections with these, so whatever route they choose it will be a flat section before the last climb.

This is actually the only negative thing about the mountains in Italy. There are where few of the longer and more natural stage finish climbs like Montecampione, Alpe di Siusi, Monte Bondone, Merano 2000, etc., which can be coupled with the toughest and best climbs like Stelvio, Gavia, Mortirolo, Manghen, Sampeyre, Finestre, Fedaia, Giau, etc.

There are plenty of natural finish climbs that can be attached to the climbs like that. Giau can be attached to Tre Cime di Lavaredo via Tre Croci, Gavia and Stelvio can both be attached to Bormio 2000, and Mortirolo-Aprica writes itself; Aprica's an easy climb, but that only makes attacks on the Mortirolo more commonplace, which is why it's such an epic double. Same goes for Finestre-Sestrières. Sampeyre and Fauniera can be linked, I guess if you wanted a big finishing climb from that the logical one would be to Santuario Sant'Anna di Vinadio. Manghen to Pampeago writes itself too. Fedaia to Sella or Pordoi (or now, Rifugio Gardeccia) are pretty straightforward options too. The tougher the final climb, the less likely we are to see fireworks beforehand, so it probably wouldn't matter with a Merano 2000 finish that the most likely lead-ins would be Passo di Monte Giovo (37km from Meran) or Passo Castrin (33km from Meran) as all the key moves would be on the final climb, it would just be about the linking of climbs prior to that to ensure the legs were tired enough that the final climb blows the field up early on. Also of course, there are some logical finishing climbs in Aosta (Pila, Place-Moulin, Breuil-Cervinia, though Pila is easily the best of these) that can be linked to some really great (and underused) climbs. My favourite climb in the area (and one of my favourite climbs full stop) is the Col Tze Core. They could have used that instead of Jaux in the 2012 Giro stage, or that could lead into Saint-Pantaleon, into Saint-Barthélemy, then descending almost right into Aosta, from which Pila (tougher) or Place-Moulin (easier) begin.

Now, sure, some climbs really ARE hard to link to anything, either because they're in high-sided valleys with little linking roads (Val Martello, for example) or because they're entering valleys at the edge of ranges (Macugnaga for example). But there are more than enough logical connecting climbs in Italy to be able to create classic stages year on year.

 

[WillyWoet]

Presentation start time?

Anybody know when the presentation starts tomorrow?

 

[Eshnar]

Anybody know when the presentation starts tomorrow?

15 00 CET I think

 

[WillyWoet]

Cheers!

Grazie mille!

15 00 CET I think

 

[Eshnar]

Streaming on Gazzetta.it starts at 14.45 CET.

 

[jens_attacks]

any idea on who will attend it?

i miss ricco's glasses and rujanito's badasz jacket

 

[Netserk]

The 2012 presentation was so awesome with Rujano and Contador.

 

[Eshnar]

any idea on who will attend it?

i miss ricco's glasses and rujanito's badasz jacket

Purito and Valverde said they'll be there I think.

 

[Arredondo]

any idea on who will attend it?

i miss ricco's glasses and rujanito's badasz jacket

I think most guys who competed at Il Lombardia.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Surely Porte will attend.
Majka and Betancur would be nice too.

 

[SafeBet]

Aru should attend. He's gonna be on the podium next year so better start showing his face to the press.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

What about the Irish angle? Martin to attend perhaps.

 

[Arredondo]

Valverde said in a interview he might challenge the Giro next year.

 

[Eshnar]

http://videochat.gazzetta.it/index_Live01.shtml?c=H24_04
stream started already with interviews. Presentation should start in 10 minutes.

 

[SafeBet]

Moreno talking

 

[Netserk]

And then a Belgian(?) song Why not an Italian?

 

[Netserk]

LOL at Boots staring at the camera instead of the interviewer

 

[Eshnar]

LOL at Boots staring at the camera instead of the interviewer

He's used to the showbiz

 

[Eshnar]

Songs' choice is questionable...

 

[Netserk]

Some random has-been on the screen now

 

[Eshnar]

Evans now.

 

[SafeBet]

Cadel says he will do the Giro almost 100%.

 

[Netserk]

Songs' choice is questionable...

It's unbearable