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Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements

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Since someone talked about Fedaia being passed the right way, is the Serrai closed forever to bike racing? Was it reconstructed as a walkway instead of the road that was there before?
I think most (all?) is fixed. But the width of the track is very slim.
It may work as a final climb in a hard stage but you can't have cars on this part of the climb.
 
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I think most (all?) is fixed. But the width of the track is very slim.
It may work as a final climb in a hard stage but you can't have cars on this part of the climb.

But I believe it was reconstructed as in the image below. Don't think a peloton will go through there. Maybe a MTT, but I don't put my hopes high.

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I like a lot of it, the Grappa stage is gonna be wasted though with this final climb. I think the bormio stage could work with the steep eastern side but I think the number of stages where the final hard climb is far from the finish is a big risk. Like, I always wanted to see Tze Core into Joux but with another 17km to go after that this might just be a snoozefest. With the same final climb in the Grappa stage as 2017 plus maybe a finish on Col de Joux itself or something like that, it would look extremely great.
 
I think this Giro route is shaping up depending on racing. so that everybody loves the route if the racing is great and everybody hates it if the racing is bad.

Stage 19 is great but might be wasted because of Finestre being the next day. I like the pacing of the big MTF, Bormio stage and (I guess) flat stage 18 after that. Although I think that Bormio stage might be a waste by the way it looks without a hard Mortirolo.

Personally I think this is high risk-high reward kind of route and doesn't guarantee anything but it has the potential for a lot of great stages depending on GC situation throughout the race.
I like that risk so I praise the route.
 
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I think this Giro route is shaping up depending on racing. so that everybody loves the route if the racing is great and everybody hates it if the racing
I think people on here will agree that the 2012 Giro was one of, if not the worst edition of the race. But the route itself actually had some awesomely designed stages, which would be praised on this forum, but were passively raced.
 
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Afaik both climbs have very sketchy descents and Vegni isn't the guy to take that risk, without massive sponsors in the area
For the southern descent of Fauniera, is the problem mostly the state of the road near the top or the nature of the descent the two places where cars can only go one way? I can see why it might be complicated with cars, but other than that it looks fine.
 
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For the southern descent of Fauniera, is the problem mostly the state of the road near the top or the nature of the descent the two places where cars can only go one way? I can see why it might be complicated with cars, but other than that it looks fine.
yeah I think the width of the road is the main problem there. There are also quite a few dangerous sections that would need concrete safety measures, and since we are talking about a very long descent, I can imagine the costs would be high.
I'm sure that none of that would be a dealbreaker with the right offer, but as I said there are no sponsors in the area and I doubt the villages there can pay enough.
 
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I hope that when the deal with Rome is finished, Torino will pay for the Giro to finish there and that the penultimate stage will be in southern Piemonte (like in 2016, but with no visit to France). That should be a way to channel some funds in that direction, and then we might not have such a long drought afterwards again.

Do you think it was the city of Cuneo only who bid for a Fauniera stage a few years ago?
 
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I hope that when the deal with Rome is finished, Torino will pay for the Giro to finish there and that the penultimate stage will be in southern Piemonte (like in 2016, but with no visit to France). That should be a way to channel some funds in that direction, and then we might not have such a long drought afterwards again.

Do you think it was the city of Cuneo only who bid for a Fauniera stage a few years ago?
I think so, yes. Maybe the province, but pretty sure not the region.
 
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I don't understand the comment, so fare rumours show a much better route than have been in years.
It is definitely better than recent years but its a long way from the 2015 and 2016 routes. For me stages 15,16, and 17 look like big missed opportunities compared to earlier rumours. If they were able to have Giau, Druscie as originally planned along with a proper mortirolo stage then this would be an all timer as the first 2 weeks look like they should be action packed while not overly favouring climbers.