Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2022 route rumors

[Mayomaniac]

I really prefer Giau-Falzarego-Fedaia. If they give me that combo I don't care very much what comes before

It comes down if you prefer the harder side of the Giau before the easier Falzarego and more false flat or the harder side of Valparola instead of the Falzarego (5kms at 8.4% befre the easier final km) before the easier side of the Giau and very little flat between the final 3 climbs.
I mean the Giau from Pocol is still a hard climb, we haven't seen (pun intended) that side already last year and the following descent is pure bikeporn.

 

[Red Rick]

It comes down if you prefer the harder side of the Giau before the easier Falzarego and more false flat or the harder side of Valparola instead of the Falzarego (5kms at 8.4% befre the easier final km) before the easier side of the Giau and very little flat between the final 3 climbs.
I mean the Giau from Pocol is still a hard climb, we haven't seen (pun intended) that side already last year and the following descent is pure bikeporn.

It's a fine stage that way, but I don't think Giau this way is a super enticing launching pad and especially starting the climb in Pocol it's clearly easier than Fedaia which comes relatively quickly after it.

I think if you take Giau from Caprile and go over Santa Lucia like this year it works really well to hammer Santa Lucia with domestiques cause you can't really afford to start pacing yourself already there and then Giau is a full 33 minutes in the hurtbox.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So how are things going with the route reveal? Will we know the mountain stages before the spring? Remco can't wait so long, can he?

 

[Mayomaniac]

So how are things going with the route reveal? Will we know the mountain stages before the spring? Remco can't wait so long, can he?

Remco will ride the Vuelta and tomorrow we get the hilly stages, one day later the mountain stages.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

I really prefer Giau-Falzarego-Fedaia. If they give me that combo I don't care very much what comes before

Another Sella show at under 32 km/h. And after that stage Contador got his first Maglia Rosa. I totally agree, it's a great combo.

Giau would be Cima Coppi then?

 

[Red Rick]

Another Sella show at under 32 km/h. And after that stage Contador got his first Maglia Rosa. I totally agree, it's a great combo.

Giau would be Cima Coppi then?

We can even compromise with @Mayomaniac and put in Valparola before Giau

 

[Mayomaniac]

We can even compromise with @Mayomaniac and put in Valparola before Giau

I don't mind, I'm just a sucker for the Giau descent.

 

[Red Rick]

I don't mind, I'm just a sucker for the Giau descent.

I'm gonna assume this is reverse psychology and you have the Strava record on the other descent?

To be honest I'm also more into the descending part than the climbing part

 

[sir fly]

No question the presented sprint stages are for the sprinters.
The one to Cuneo looks intriguing. Partially 'cause of the field that's still gonna be in contention and more 'cause of its aftermath.

Wonder if some opportunity for the sprinters will pop up from the hilly set.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I'm gonna assume this is reverse psychology and you have the Strava record on the other descent?

To be honest I'm also more into the descending part than the climbing part

I'm not on Strava, so no idea. It's just a super awesome descent.

 

[BlueRoads]

So, posing the question again, which sprinters do you think will come?
Maybe Philipsen, Laporte, Viviani?

 

[Eshnar]

wtf... stage 8 is gonna be Napoli - Napoli, with a 20 km circuit on Monte di Procida to be repeated 5 times. Total 149 (including run in and back)

 

[SafeBet]

wtf... stage 8 is gonna be Napoli - Napoli, with a 20 km circuit on Monte di Procida to be repeated 5 times. Total 149 (including run in and back)

That's 2 kinda long transfers in consecutive days if Potenza and Isernia are confirmed.

 

[Eshnar]

That's 2 kinda long transfers in consecutive days if Potenza and Isernia are confirmed.

indeed. I'm also mad that it's not an ITT

 

[Eshnar]

From the Trivias that the Giro has been publishing, Torino is gonna be involved. Likely as the finish of stage 14.

 

[Eshnar]

2022 Hilly Stages | Giro d'Italia 2022 (giroditalia.it)

Monte Fasce (aka Becco) in the stage to Genova, very good
Torino looks awesome
Castelmonte with some unnecessary flat in the end

 

[OlavEH]

From the Trivias that the Giro has been publishing, Torino is gonna be involved. Likely as the finish of stage 14.

With flat finish? Nothing more interesting like using Superga and/or Maddalena first?

Edit: Found the answer in the link to the profiles.......

 

[Eshnar]

 

[Red Rick]

Sadly I think the first 4 all fall into the category of "just not hard enough for what you'd wish they'd do."

Montescuro especially just comes too early in the race.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Ok, the hilly/medium mountain stuff delivers, at least 4 really good stages and the Genova stage also looks fine.

 

[SafeBet]

2022 Hilly Stages | Giro d'Italia 2022 (giroditalia.it)

Monte Fasce (aka Becco) in the stage to Genova, very good
Torino looks awesome
Castelmonte with some unnecessary flat in the end

I like both the stages to Genova and Torino.
The Napoli circuit looked perfect for an ITT, as you said.
Castelmonte is a bit underwhelming.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

On the giro webpage it says that the Diamante-Potenza stage has 4.500 meters of vertical, is that accurate? Looking at it, it seems more like 3.500, how would 4,5k even qualify as a hilly stage?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Sadly I think the first 4 all fall into the category of "just not hard enough for what you'd wish they'd do."

Montescuro especially just comes too early in the race.

It's still a good stage, but in the 3rd week it could be total carnage with 60kms to go.

 

[Mayomaniac]

They could post the number of each stage to give the fans a better overview, just saying...

 

[Eshnar]

On the giro webpage it says that the Diamante-Potenza stage has 4.500 meters of vertical, is that accurate? Looking at it, it seems more like 3.500, how would 4,5k even qualify as a hilly stage?

they probably got it on some online tool, they do tend to overestimate a lot. The stage to Reggio Emilia is marked with 480m and it is completely flat.