The startlist is better than the 2024. There will be a higher quality, more gc contenders and more puncheurs.
- Feb 20, 2012
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Will be amazing to see a neutralized Mortiwronglol 5 more times before we see her classical side again.
- Jun 30, 2022
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Carlos Ivan Oyarzun in 2011. Don‘t know if there were more.
- May 27, 2022
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This is why it was really annoying that they did a stage finish at Aprica in 2022, and for some reason used the eastern side of the Mortirolo, when it made more sense to use the classic side.
- Apr 30, 2011
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It's still last year's edition on the site: https://www.giroditalia.it/garibaldi/
But the individual stage pages have climb details etc. now.
Had they just done Trivigno as the penultimate climb, it'd have been a much better stage.
- Apr 26, 2023
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That stage was not bad per se, but I also prefer the classic Mortirolo stage, especially if you include the Corteno Golgi murito instead of the full statale.
- Jul 15, 2021
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Seeing they just started working on the roads a month ago according to Eshnar, I think the road book might still take a while.
They'll probably publish it around the same time EF announces their team.
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- Jul 16, 2024
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I'm afraid I can't do that. So you better be patient..!
- Apr 30, 2011
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RCS won't even be able to retaliate after Tudor breaks their deal like that, as they will qualify for an automatic wildcard next year.
- Apr 10, 2019
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- Apr 26, 2023
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Something similar will happen to the Vuelta with Q36.5 and Pidcock.
Pidcock has said his goal is the MTB World Championships. Before the Vuelta even starts, they'll say he's not going, or at most, he'll retire in the first day of rest.
- Feb 20, 2010
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"This kind of behaviour is disgusting and disrespectful to these great and historic races, and you would never have seen anybody dare to behave like this in my time", said a prominent ex-cyclist disappointed to see such withdrawals.
Storer is the man, not Hirschi, it's not like Marc's recent results had RCS go "wow, look at that, he'll sparkle a few stages" and now they are angry
- Jul 8, 2017
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Too easy, too early in the race and too far from the finish to really hope for a GC battle.
- May 5, 2010
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- Apr 10, 2019
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A few good things, stage 8 has an 800m at 12% murito topping with 6kms to go and the overall stage ain't easy. The Vicenza stage is also decent.
The stage with San Pellegrino in Alpe mid stage could be harder than expected because it comes right after the ITT.
IMO the big problems are stage 14 and stage 15 being so bad and the meh Aosta stage. The Grappa stage having the intermediate stage in Possagno, where the hardest side of Bocca di Forca starts, is just taking the piss, at that point they are trolling the hardcore fans.
RCS giving the Bormio stage over the Midtirolo only 3 out of 5 starts tells you it is easy, but it could at least result in more gc action the previous day, someone could attack from further out.
The stage with San Pellegrino in Alpe mid stage could be harder than expected because it comes right after the ITT.
IMO the big problems are stage 14 and stage 15 being so bad and the meh Aosta stage. The Grappa stage having the intermediate stage in Possagno, where the hardest side of Bocca di Forca starts, is just taking the piss, at that point they are trolling the hardcore fans.
RCS giving the Bormio stage over the Midtirolo only 3 out of 5 starts tells you it is easy, but it could at least result in more gc action the previous day, someone could attack from further out.
- Feb 18, 2015
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I'm starting to hope bad weather makes the north side of the Finestre unridable so they instead go for a Finestre mtf from the south side. That way we could get a "Grappa stage", a "Mortirolo stage" and a "Finestre stage" all in one Giro without any of them being remotely interesting. Don't think we'll ever come this close to achieving the trinity of fake mythical stages again.
- Jun 30, 2022
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Why would they do a Finestre MTF though, they‘d just do loops around Sestriere.
- Feb 18, 2015
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- Jul 27, 2009
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Hirschi has been taken off the start list by Tudor due to bad shape. So it's rather a penalty for him than an offense for the Giro d'Italia!
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