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

[ashhutch1997]

No Recta Contador despite rumours:

It's just such a pointless stage design.

 

[Red Rick]

No Recta Contador despite rumours:

Petulant Whiners United is always justified.

 

[Red Rick]

It's just such a pointless stage design.

It doesn't need Recta Contador. The problem is that it's about 30km too long

Spoiler

Gavia instead of Mortirolo is waayyyy shorter

 

[ashhutch1997]

It doesn't need Recta Contador. The problem is that it's about 30km too long

Spoiler

Gavia instead of Mortirolo is waayyyy shorter

Thats my point, just a pointless stage full stop. Maybe Gavia and Bormio 2000 would work, and have this is a back up incase Vegni does a Vegni.

 

[E_F_]

No Recta Contador despite rumours:

Breakaway stage with a fruitless GC attack on Le Motte.

 

[Gigs_98]

It doesn't need Recta Contador. The problem is that it's about 30km too long

Spoiler

Gavia instead of Mortirolo is waayyyy shorter

Think I would take Recta Contador over Gavia. Change that and put Tzecore close to the finish and suddenly I genuinely like this route

 

[pastronef]

No Recta Contador despite rumours:

I did read yesterday on an Italian website, forgot which, the works were ready, new tarmac being laid. who knows

 

[Mayomaniac]

They should have put Gavia in and just have the faux-Mortirolo as the alternative.
Hell, give me the 2012 side of the Mortirolo!

 

[Red Rick]

Think I would take Recta Contador over Gavia. Change that and put Tzecore close to the finish and suddenly I genuinely like this route

Both RC and Gavia would be a huge improvement, but if you go RC I think you should also take the final Motte climb out and put the emphasis on Mortirolo. Don't care that much for Tzecore, though the original design was better.

Overall I'm still baffled by how tolerated the route is despite how backloaded it is and how much deliberate sabotage of good racing there is. Bormio and Asiago are inexcusable to me. And then you finally bring on Pradaccio but it's a million km from the finish too.

Before stage 16, we're lucky to get 3km of road stage action outside of the Strade Bianche stage.

 

[Red Rick]

They should have put Gavia in and just have the faux-Mortirolo as the alternative.
Hell, give me the 2012 side of the Mortirolo!

Guspessa one time?

Best designed queen stage of the Giro this decade was the baby Giro.

 

[Onizuka999]

They were working sometimes ago on the Recta Contador. Maybe it will appear in the Giro Next Gen? I can confirm that it won't be in the Giro.

 

[Gigs_98]

Both RC and Gavia would be a huge improvement, but if you go RC I think you should also take the final Motte climb out and put the emphasis on Mortirolo. Don't care that much for Tzecore, though the original design was better.

Overall I'm still baffled by how tolerated the route is despite how backloaded it is and how much deliberate sabotage of good racing there is. Bormio and Asiago are inexcusable to me. And then you finally bring on Pradaccio but it's a million km from the finish too.

Before stage 16, we're lucky to get 3km of road stage action outside of the Strade Bianche stage.

It's backloaded in the sense that there is essentially no relevant mountain stage before week 3. But then week 3 probably only has two stages with big gaps itself. Really think, Asiago, Bormio and the aosta valley stage will be completely softpedalled. So I don't think it's more backloaded than previous years but the overall number of mountain stages where I expect much is ridiculously low. If one of the three stages I mentioned above and the Praddaccio stage turns out to be good I'm already positively surprised

 

[E_F_]

But just think of the excitement on the Finestre stage! It'll all come down to one single stage! What joy.

 

[Netserk]

But just think of the excitement on the Finestre stage! It'll all come down to one single stage! What joy.

It would be the perfect year to end with double Sestriere as Finestre wouldn't be the best climb to wait for any longer.

 

[Cycling111]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917194089314898302

View: https://x.com/Eurosport_IT/status/1917194089314898302

 

[Red Rick]

Foreign starts is one thing but then going back outside the country to start the final stage in a whole different nation is just going too far.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Foreign starts is one thing but then going back outside the country to start the final stage in a whole different nation is just going too far.

So you're suggesting that we should just annex that thing?

 

[Netserk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917241973703860332

View: https://x.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1917241973703860332

 

[E_F_]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917241973703860332

View: https://x.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1917241973703860332

The platonic ideal of a backloaded GT.

 

[Netserk]

Other than stage 14, I think the pacing and overall structure is perfectly fine. The first half of the race only has a single boring sprint stage.

 

[zlev11]

yeah it's just...the route would be sooo much better with just a few changes. the Bormio stage needs to just be...completely different. if that was Mortirolo-Aprica instead that would make me love this route.

 

[YavorD]

yeah it's just...the route would be sooo much better with just a few changes. the Bormio stage needs to just be...completely different. if that was Mortirolo-Aprica instead that would make me love this route.

Or, as @Red Rick stated, use the baby Giro 2022 stage as example.
Go through Tonale-Aprica-Guspessa and keep the finish in Bormio

 

[OlavEH]

There are two good aspects about this route. That is the Finestre stage and the sterrato stage to Siena. Otherwise it's mostly missed opportunities. It's pretty amazing that when they do San Pellegrino in Alpe, Monte Grappa, Bormio finish with a start nearby Trento and a Champoluc finish, they don't manage to create something better than this. One could also add a Nova Gorica finish. It is almost like they aim to make it bad.......

 

[Mayomaniac]

Other than stage 14, I think the pacing and overall structure is perfectly fine. The first half of the race only has a single boring sprint stage.

It's not the pacing, it's the stages and what side of the climbs they (don't) use. A hard side of Grappa, 2012 Mortirolo or this one just as a bad weather alternative to Gavia and maybe an uphill finish on that Murito above Novi Gorica that the Tour of Slovenia has used before and this would be sooo much better. They banked on a route that would attract Evenepoel, after he has already robbed them multiple times. Vegni and his handler Cairo are spine- and shameless.

 

[Rou]

If they remove the Finestre just add the Zoncolan and make it a battle royale.