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

[YavorD]

Other than perhaps wandering across the odd border and back during a stage, Grand tours should stay within their borders. Far too much travelling and transfers.

The Tour has it's all stages in France and yet there's very high amount of transfers.

 

[YavorD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860611982539338078

View: https://x.com/laflammerouge16/status/1860611982539338078

 

[YavorD]

*** makes me worry they couldn't do Finestre.

I guess they will. Stage 20 still ends in Sestriere.

 

[RedheadDane]

Other than perhaps wandering across the odd border and back during a stage, Grand tours should stay within their borders. Far too much travelling and transfers.

What about going across the regular border?

 

[staubsauger]

*** makes me worry they couldn't do Finestre.

If they do THAT Aosta stage and Stelvio - Bormio 2000 from Prad I'm fine with no Finestre.

Sorry not sorry.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

That would be a really s**tty 'queen stage', after Tzecore it's all tempogrinding.

 

[Wyndbrook]

The Tour has it's all stages in France and yet there's very high amount of transfers.

There have and this year is particularly bad for excessive distances between finish and starts.

 

[JReed27]

That would be a really s**tty 'queen stage', after Tzecore it's all tempogrinding.

Tempogrinding climbs can be good for racing if everyone is tired and there race has split into lots of small groups, but for that you need a hard stage to tire riders and a hard climb to split the riders up.

This proposal would have the only steep climb as the first of the day so it would most likely just be a team setting a relatively hard tempo all day until the last few km of the joux where you might see an attack if the race situation suits.

The only benefit of this route is that its significantly harder than the previously rumoured stage which should mean a more tired peloton for finestre a day later.

 

[OlavEH]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860611982539338078

View: https://x.com/laflammerouge16/status/1860611982539338078

A queen stage in Aosta could be very good, but I don't see the potential if Finestre is the day after. And the sequence of those climbs seems a bit wrong. Tzecore before Saint-Panthaleon and Joux? The best option in that area would be Saint-Panthaleo first followed by the sequence of Arlaz, Tzecore, Joux and then the finish to Champoluc. The small loop to Antagnod also seems a point pointless.

 

[JReed27]

It wasn't long ago that I quite liked the rumoured route but with every update it looks worse and worse lol

 

[Rob5091]

Nah, it's politics. Italy pays Albania to send immigrants there. Italian courts are questioning the legality of the deal so it might get cancelled. The Giro start somehow was part of the deal.

Yes, it's quite the s-show.

Yep, apparently no refugees, no police and no social workers. So the Giro seems to be stuck in the middle of the politicians and the judges. I'll guess that the politicians want the plan to go ahead (as do the Albanians) and use the Giro as "sportswashing". If the plan falls apart then the politicians wont want people to be reminded of the debacle (millions of Euros down "the Adriatic" )

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-albania-after-staffing-empty-migrant-centres

 

[rallybanana]

How did the Giro get embroiled in this? It's the equivalent of the English football association hosting the Charity Shield match in Kigali as part of the Rwanda asylum plan.

 

[Mayomaniac]

How did the Giro get embroiled in this? It's the equivalent of the English football association hosting the Charity Shield match in Kigali as part of the Rwanda asylum plan.

Because RCS are morons who got gaslighted into this stuff, because big money for a Grande Partenza if everything goes right.

 

[RedheadDane]

There we have it; no Albania next year!

(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)

 

[YavorD]

There we have it; no Albania next year!

(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)

La Vuelta never planned to go to Albania though

 

[RedheadDane]

La Vuelta never planned to go to Albania though

Somehow I thought it was the Giro account posting it... I just saw a city in Italy, and knew that there was some questions about where the Giro was starting next year. Well, turn out that sometimes 2+2 does not equal 4.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Somehow I thought it was the Giro account posting it... I just saw a city in Italy, and knew that there was some questions about where the Giro was starting next year. Well, turn out that sometimes 2+2 does not equal 4.

Tbf the idea of La Vuelta starting in Piemonte is pretty random.

 

[YavorD]

Somehow I thought it was the Giro account posting it... I just saw a city in Italy, and knew that there was some questions about where the Giro was starting next year. Well, turn out that sometimes 2+2 does not equal 4.

But, vut...the picture literally has "La Vuelta" right in the middle of it 😀.

 

[Poursuivant]

What are the chances Mr Vingegaard goes then?

 

[YavorD]

What are the chances Mr Vingegaard goes then?

I still rate his chances to go to the Vuelta higher than the Giro.

 

[RedheadDane]

But, vut...the picture literally has "La Vuelta" right in the middle of it 😀.

I focused on the city, and the big Italian Flag background, not the small logo in the top.

Tbf the idea of La Vuelta starting in Piemonte is pretty random.

But I guess still less random than the Giro starting in Albania, or Hungary, or Israel, or The Netherlands, or Northern Ireland, or Denmark...

 

[ashhutch1997]

I focused on the city, and the big Italian Flag background, not the small logo in the top.



But I guess still less random than the Giro starting in Albania, or Hungary, or Israel, or The Netherlands, or Northern Ireland, or Denmark...

Yeah Northern Ireland was random AF, but the Vuelta doesn't have as many starts abroad as the Giro or Tour. Also, the Giro has never been to Spain and the idea of it seems weird.

 

[Rob5091]

There we have it; no Albania next year!

(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)

Correct, the Vuelta is not going to Albania next year!

 

[RedheadDane]

Correct, the Vuelta is not going to Albania next year!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been through this already.

 

[ice&fire]

And I was thinking what do Aru, Nibali, Gimondi, Battaglin and two other dudes I don't recognise have in common that Coppi is missing!