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The Giro will be back when they comeback with the mythical climbs of the past. The Giro is getting too soft plus the incompetence.The Giro is so back, corruption and incompetence is deeply embedded within the history of this great race, and only adds to the intrigue and spectacle.
2025? 0.01%How likely is having both Vingo and Pogi next year?
Yeah, but they want the media buzz, a "big" presentation with big names attending and everything.You know what could be fun?
If instead of having a big fancy presentation, they just casually publish the road book.
Just email it to Devil's Elbow who publishes it on CN so the gang gets to whine about it before all the lame ass journalists get their "very difficult route" chat gpt articles out.
Or the previous rumour about finishing in Torbole. Monte Fae followed by Barbara and then a descent finish to Torbole. That is a very nice combo of climbs.My golly
That's just such a poor choice of MTF.
Just finish in Mori after Santa Barbara and put like Bondone before SB and you have fairly simple, but very solid mountain stage.
You're probably right about that. But that is still better than them pulling some opposite horseshite, like a stage after the Bormio stage, starting in Bormio, directly into Stelvio and then a loooooong valley before a MTF somewhere in the Merano area.I do think the race benefits from a Mtf the day before the Bormio stage.
As the only "big" MTF, it still is as good as such one gets (if from Mori), more or less. I doubt they'll do Bondone, and I can imagine that they'll go past Torbole, so my hope is Valbona and Bordala first.I do think the race benefits from a Mtf the day before the Bormio stage.
Too many construction works for the Olympics in Cortina atm (last time I counted 20 cranes) and the whole mess that is the construction of the bobsleight track, riding though Cortina and finishing up there is a mess/a logistic nightmare. Apparently they did a recon and said that it was not possible/realistic.This might be slightly offtopic but what happened to the early rumors with Col Druscie?
That aside there are a lot of things I like about the rumoured route. First week is more or less perfect but the second week could be better. Third week is very, very promising compared to recent years.
At least Vegni is encouraging long range attacks
A few intersting things from this post
Stage 15: Descending the north side of Grappa which leads to a slighlty longer (although hillier) valley road before an easy final climb compared to the 2017 finish. Only benefit would be that the run in after the final climb looks a bit more interesting
Stage 16: A really difficult selection of climbs before san valentino probably making it the queen stage
Stage 17: A shorter easier stage before the normal edolo side of the mortirolo than previously suggested. This information comes from the same article as the news about the stage 16 finish although that article had no mention of which side of the mortirolo was going to be used
It's not looking quite as good as I had hoped from some rumours but it's not bad. I don't think we will know what side of the mortirolo they are using until they route presentation but based on everything else I think it will be the easier side as they like to have 1 medium mountain stage for breakaways in the 3rd week a bit like the stage to sappada this yearAt least Vegni is encouraging long range attacks
All in all, it is pretty good, but still there are some annoying choices. Longer valley after Grappa. San Valentino and not Bormio as a queen stage. That combo of climbs in Aosta on a rather short stage and the day before Finestre. That combo should rather been saved for a proper tappone on a later occasion adding for example and at least Saint Panthaleon at first.A few intersting things from this post
Stage 15: Descending the north side of Grappa which leads to a slighlty longer (although hillier) valley road before an easy final climb compared to the 2017 finish. Only benefit would be that the run in after the final climb looks a bit more interesting
Stage 16: A really difficult selection of climbs before san valentino probably making it the queen stage
Stage 17: A shorter easier stage before the normal edolo side of the mortirolo than previously suggested. This information comes from the same article as the news about the stage 16 finish although that article had no mention of which side of the mortirolo was going to be used