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

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here's what i want:
Zoncolan from the easiest side
Mortirolo from the easiest side
at least 3, but ideally 4 mountain top finishes on climbs less than 7% average
10 sprint stages
a time trial on the penultimate day that is so hard everyone saves their energy for it for the entire previous 19 stages

looks like i got most of these. room for improvement though.
 
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The route is okay at least. Finestre is back, the sterrato stage is good and same for the Castelnovo ne' Monte stage. The rest of the mountain stages are very "meh". Especially the Bormio stage. What the heck is the point with that one.
 
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Finestre, the sterrato stage, the reduced amount of easy sprints (only 4, they’ll have to work for it if they want more), the refusal to rely on big MTFs and the San Valentino stage make for a clear improvement over 2022-2024 and a much better route than the Tour and Vuelta have managed, That being said, it’s disappointing that the tendency to make absolutely infuriating decisions is still very much there. Castelraimondo and Champoluc are a bit disappointing on their own and the decision to simultaneously not have a TT in Rome and to have a meme-length main TT is bad enough, but the Bormio and Asiago stages are you should get fired from your job, preferably out of a cannon territory. Especially because it’s not like there’s a huge amount of big mountain stages in the first place. Just like in 2022, this could have been a stellar route if they’d just done sensible things with all their stage hosts, now it’s ‘only’ a 7/10 for me.
 
Finestre, the sterrato stage, the reduced amount of easy sprints (only 4, they’ll have to work for it if they want more), the refusal to rely on big MTFs and the San Valentino stage make for a clear improvement over 2022-2024 and a much better route than the Tour and Vuelta have managed, That being said, it’s disappointing that the tendency to make absolutely infuriating decisions is still very much there. Castelraimondo and Champoluc are a bit disappointing on their own and the decision to simultaneously not have a TT in Rome and to have a meme-length main TT is bad enough, but the Bormio and Asiago stages are you should get fired from your job, preferably out of a cannon territory. Especially because it’s not like there’s a huge amount of big mountain stages in the first place. Just like in 2022, this could have been a stellar route if they’d just done sensible things with all their stage hosts, now it’s ‘only’ a 7/10 for me.
The point of limiting big MTFs is to induce action on well designed mountain stages that don't have a MTF. Problem is there's no well designed mountain stages where attacking makes any sense.

Sometimes, less is just less.
 
Finestre, the sterrato stage, the reduced amount of easy sprints (only 4, they’ll have to work for it if they want more), the refusal to rely on big MTFs and the San Valentino stage make for a clear improvement over 2022-2024 and a much better route than the Tour and Vuelta have managed, That being said, it’s disappointing that the tendency to make absolutely infuriating decisions is still very much there. Castelraimondo and Champoluc are a bit disappointing on their own and the decision to simultaneously not have a TT in Rome and to have a meme-length main TT is bad enough, but the Bormio and Asiago stages are you should get fired from your job, preferably out of a cannon territory. Especially because it’s not like there’s a huge amount of big mountain stages in the first place. Just like in 2022, this could have been a stellar route if they’d just done sensible things with all their stage hosts, now it’s ‘only’ a 7/10 for me.
I think 2023 was good apart from the ridiculous MTT at the end. The race was awful partly due to Evenepoel and TGH retiring and leaving Roglic (who I think had crashed mid race), Thomas and Almeida to fight.
 
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The point of limiting big MTFs is to induce action on well designed mountain stages that don't have a MTF. Problem is there's no well designed mountain stages where attacking makes any sense
Exactly. This year's Giro contains 3 stage finish locations (in addition to Finestre/Sestriere) which are from good to excellent if they want to create well designed stages suitable for long range action. I'm not expecting them to take full advantage of all these 3, but at least 1 or 2. Especially the Bormio stage is immensely disappointing.
 
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The point of limiting big MTFs is to induce action on well designed mountain stages that don't have a MTF. Problem is there's no well designed mountain stages where attacking makes any sense.

Sometimes, less is just less.
Stage 20 is obviously good. Stage 16 and 19 are acceptable too I'd say.
Anyways, what an awful route overall. Strade Bianche stage is good though.
Asiago stage is one of the worst I've seen considering the start and finish towns. Bormio too.