Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2022 route rumors

[Netserk]

Sounds good. Perhaps with Vetriolo Terme/Passo del Compet before?

Best case scenario?

 

[Sciatic]

Oh, so we compensate the lack of awkward looking cyclists in suits by wearing suits and looking awkward ourselves? I could get behind this idea! I looked forward to the suits ever since TdF event.

Did someone say suits?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457075887933960203

View: https://twitter.com/nicholasroche/status/1457075887933960203?s=21


Seems they are trying for a 1960s French “New Wave” look??

 

[BlueRoads]

Did someone say suits?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457075887933960203

View: https://twitter.com/nicholasroche/status/1457075887933960203?s=21


Seems they are trying for a 1960s French “New Wave” look??

I'm glad they took down the "sexiest cyclists" threads, otherwise I would have had to edit my post and erase Bardet from my list just for that suit...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Did someone say suits?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457075887933960203

View: https://twitter.com/nicholasroche/status/1457075887933960203?s=21


Seems they are trying for a 1960s French “New Wave” look??

Is it Carlton Kirby or David Brailsford in the mirror?

 

[Ricco']

Bardet is a tweed jacket away from writing a book about existentialism and the denial of reality.

 

[Eshnar]

Sounds good. Perhaps with Vetriolo Terme/Passo del Compet before?

Best case scenario?

well, I would also throw Bondone in there.

 

[Netserk]

well, I would also throw Bondone in there.

Seems highly unlikely given the rest of the route, I'd think.

 

[Eshnar]

Seems highly unlikely given the rest of the route, I'd think.

I was just saying it as a best case scenario, not a likely one.

 

[noob]

I'm glad they took down the "sexiest cyclists" threads, otherwise I would have had to edit my post and erase Bardet from my list just for that suit...

What's wrong with it? I approve

 

[noob]

When I logged into Facebook today there was Almeida on a gala in black and white from yesterday. Suiting suit! Suits suits.

 

[Netserk]

I was just saying it as a best case scenario, not a likely one.

Best case of what's probable. I don't even know what best case of what's possible would be. 300 km long mountain stage?

 

[Red Rick]

Best case of what's probable. I don't even know what best case of what's possible would be. 300 km long mountain stage?

Exactly 110km.

Somebody exorcise Prudhomme please

 

[BlueRoads]

What's wrong with it? I approve

It makes him look very uptight.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Exactly 110km.

Somebody exorcise Prudhomme please

"That sounds like an awfully long distance. I hope for the riders sake that at least 10 kms of that includes soft pedalling in the neutral zone."

A professional cyclist's grandmother, probably.

 

[Eshnar]

Local articles today in Veneto and Trentino:
Stage 17 to finish in Passo Vezzena, roadworks delayed to next year
Stage 20 Belluno - Passo Fedaia

Based on this and the fact that the latest news mention Martellago as a stage start, there might be a Martellago - Treviso on stage 18. Not sure what they would do there.

1 Budapest - Visegrad
2 Budapest ITT
3 Kaposvar - Balatonfüred
4 ??? - Etna (M)
5 ??? - Taormina (F)
6 Somewhere in Calabria - Scalea (F)
7 Diamante - Potenza (H)
8 Potenza - Monte di Procida (H)
9 Isernia - Blockhaus (M)
rest
10 Pescara - Jesi (H)
11 Sant'Agata Feltria OR Santarcangelo - Reggio Emilia (F)
12 Parma - Genova (H)
13 Sanremo or Imperia - Cuneo (F)
14 Santena - ??? (Piedmont) (H)
15 Rivarolo Canavese - Cogne (M)
rest
16 Salo'? - Tirano or Aprica (M)
17 Ponte di Legno - Lavarone or Passo Vezzena (M)
18 Martellago ? - Treviso (F)
19 Marano - Castelmonte (H)
20 Belluno - Passo Fedaia (M)
21 Verona ITT

 

[Red Rick]

Stage 20 Belluno - Passo Fedaia

Vegni redemption arc incoming?

 

[Netserk]

Starting from Belluno, I could easily see a stage similar to the one of 2008.

 

[SafeBet]

Vegni redemption arc incoming?

Wait until it snows a week before the stage.

 

[Red Rick]

Wait until it snows a week before the stage.

The real plottwist is that it's from Canizei

 

[SafeBet]

The real plottwist is that it's from Canizei

And not after Pordoi or Sella, but riding all the way through Val di Fassa.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Vegni redemption arc incoming?

Only a villain would think about a Fedaia Mtf...
A Fedaia Mtf from the other side after Passa Sella from Waidbruck/Ponte Gardena would be better.

The Serrai are still not useable, so there is no real incentive to use it as a Mtf from that side, imo.

 

[Mayomaniac]

And not after Pordoi or Sella, but riding all the way through Val di Fassa.

I mean, if you put Passo San Pellegrino in halfway through that stage you have an option for a crazy long range attack.
I fear that we'll get a 2014 style mtf fest...

 

[OlavEH]

Poor option: San Pellegrino - Sella - Gardena - Campolongo - Fedaia
Good option: San Pellegrino - Sella - Gardena - Valparola - Giau - Fedaia, would still not be more than around 187 km.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Exactly 110km.

Somebody exorcise Prudhomme please

Just waiting on Prudhomme to call like...

 

[Gigs_98]

The real plottwist is that it's from Canizei

To be honest, as stage 20 I would unironically prefer a mtf on Fedaia from Canizei. Fedaia from the east as a mtf is completely unsuited for the finale of a gt. It's hard enough to scare any potential long range attackers, the final 5 km are the steepest meaning everyone will play the waiting game till then and even if you wanted long range attacks there aren't that many hard climbs to put in front of it. The best option is the Giau but from that side the Giau isn't really that hard either. I suppose you could use a large number of climbs to make things harder but then I'm not a fan of the concept of making your final mountain stage the hardest one. Fedaia as the finish of stage 20 would simply be mediocre at best.