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

[QueenStagiaire]

That Redbull km gimmick has Roglic crash written all over it.

They‘ve mostly put them uphill, it‘s kind of a conflict of interest as has been said before.

 

[zlev11]

I think it makes a lot of sense to critique a route for ensuring that all GC action will be limited to the penultimate stage.

Either make a cool, easy route and ditch the Finestre stage (or make it easier/less nailed on selective) - or make a super hard route with multiple stages as tough as the Finestre stage.

yeah i dont understand why they constantly put the hardest stage as the last mountain stage. id like to see them put the hardest stage on the 2nd weekend for a change. it would open up the race and possibly make the lesser stages more exciting than they might've been.

 

[Netserk]

Giro d'Italia 2025: il Mortirolo inedito è quasi ufficiale

Con l'annuncio dei lavori di adeguamento che costeranno 115000 euro, si può dire che salvo sorprese la nuova Recta Contador sarà sul Gar

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It seems the Recta Contador is on the table again

@Eshnar have you heard anything since?

 

[Red Rick]

Seriously why do they even need to do works on Recta Contador? Like IIRC it's already paved how bad could it be to climb like 2-3km on bad asphalt when you're going 10 kph anyways

 

[Mayomaniac]

Seriously why do they even need to do works on Recta Contador? Like IIRC it's already paved how bad could it be to climb like 2-3km on bad asphalt when you're going 10 kph anyways

It's a narrow goattrack.

Mfw they actually use it for a Baby Giro MTT...

 

[Red Rick]

It's a narrow goattrack.

Mfw they actually use it for a Baby Giro MTT...

What do they wanna do lol. Widen it? Just barrier it off for fans and job done?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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.

19 and 20 in opposite order would potentially be really good, because Finestre is going to create gaps regardless.

Re Pradaccio, though, that stage reminds me heavily of this:

As for stage 17...

 

[OlavEH]

19 and 20 in opposite order would potentially be really good, because Finestre is going to create gaps regardless.

Agreed, but they should regardless changed the sequence of climbs on the Champoluc stage. They should have done Saint-Panthaleon-Arlaz-Zuccore-Joux and than headed straight for Champoluc.

 

[houtdffan]

Finestre may be out.

It snowed recently

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Finestre may be out.

It snowed recently

Will be impossible to clear in more than one month…

 

[Netserk]

Finestre may be out.

It snowed recently

No prob, we just need to call up Dennis of Rohan!

 

[AupaPyama]

Next week it's time! But.... still no pre-inscrito?

 

[Onizuka999]

Ineos: Arensman Bernal Castroviejo Hamilton Heiduk Rivera Tarling Turner

 

[Onizuka999]

Today we will have the provisional startlist and the official guide Garibaldi. Anyway with an enormous delay...

 

[Netserk]

Today we will have the provisional startlist and the official guide Garibaldi. Anyway with an enormous delay...

Provisional startlist: https://www.giroditalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0NU2nxsxhfqaXR3Fw4VH_020525-122741.pdf

 

[Eshnar]

@Eshnar have you heard anything since?

I only heard that they started working on the road last month, so I figured it was way too late for this edition.

 

[Netserk]

I only heard that they started working on the road last month, so I figured it was way too late for this edition.

Thanks. At least it will be ready for an inclusion in the coming years.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Provisional startlist: https://www.giroditalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0NU2nxsxhfqaXR3Fw4VH_020525-122741.pdf

Fausto‘s on it, Woohoo!

 

[OlavEH]

Thanks. At least it will be ready for an inclusion in the coming years.

I wonder when we'll see the best side of Mortirolo again. Combined with the classic Aprica finish. It has been far tool long since last time.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

I wonder when we'll see the best side of Mortirolo again. Combined with the classic Aprica finish. It has been far tool long since last time.

Unfortunately, i don't think Aprica is the reachest ski station, nor the province or Brescia is the most intersted in promoting that area, so the absence of classic Mortirolo may also have some economical reason.

Anyway, terrible route this year. Some stages are fine in isolation, but the way the overall Giro is constructed doens't convince me in the slightest

 

[ingsve]

5 Norwegians at the start line even without UNO-X.

Svestad-Bårdseng, Tjötta, Gudmestad, Staune-Mittet and Byström.

 

[Netserk]

5 Norwegians at the start line even without UNO-X.

Svestad-Bårdseng, Tjötta, Gudmestad, Staune-Mittet and Byström.

Do you think JSM will ride for breakaways or try to go for GC? He should have a completely free role in the team.

 

[ingsve]

Do you think JSM will ride for breakaways or try to go for GC? He should have a completely free role in the team.

No idea really. I doubt he is to 10 material this year so it depends if it would be beneficial for him to fight in GC for a top 30 finish or whether the time is better served going for stages. There is some benefit to go through having to fight every single day to hang on without rest to eventually become a GT rider but without knowing his overall training plans it's hard to know if he is in a spot to benefit from that now or not.

 

[OlavEH]

Unfortunately, i don't think Aprica is the reachest ski station, nor the province or Brescia is the most intersted in promoting that area, so the absence of classic Mortirolo may also have some economical reason.

Really too bad. It's one of the two best combos in cycling. Even if they fix recta Contador, it's not the same.

Anyway, terrible route this year. Some stages are fine in isolation, but the way the overall Giro is constructed doens't convince me in the slightest

Yeah. And what's a shame is that they didn't have to change too much in terms of start and finish locations to make it one of the best routes in later years.

 

[Gigs_98]

Thanks. At least it will be ready for an inclusion in the coming years.

I guess that's a positive, but then I really wish they would stop using the eastern ascent of the Moritrolo for a while.