Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025: Stage-by-stage analysis

[Mayomaniac]

Best I can do about the penultimate weekend, somewhat taking the (self-imposed) constraints of RCS into account:

Stage 14: Treviso > Asiago
Stage 15: Fiume Veneto > Nova Gorica

The highest-impact minimalist changes I'd make though are double Sestriere and a longer second ITT (10-15 km extra would help a lot).

Bocca di Forca-Grappa before Asiago on stage 15 and on stage 14 you could do something that already worked well in the Tour of Slovenia in 2021 (at least the final part of the stage):

 

[Netserk]

I think a finish in Nova Gorica and a circuit with Goriza are mandatory. So I think just adding Ravnica to the current circuit is the best you can do if you keep the stage order.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Huge thank you to @Devil's Elbow for your hard work to keep this great thread going. It's just ashame the route doesn't match how great this preview is...

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

I think a finish in Nova Gorica and a circuit with Goriza are mandatory. So I think just adding Ravnica to the current circuit is the best you can do if you keep the stage order.

Something along the line of the 2022 Torino stage would have been great on stage 15. I think RCS wants to take the Giro closer to the public and thus favours city circuit, which is reasonable but should not come at the cost of good racing

 

[Netserk]

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[Red Rick]

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Petulant Whiners of Cyclingnews Forum, I summon thee.

 

[E_F_]

This Giro has so many of them gimmes already.....

Well you either have many or you have none, you don't have just one, and if you do you don't have it as literally the last stage where GC-action is possible.

 

[Extinction]

Something along the line of the 2022 Torino stage would have been great on stage 15. I think RCS wants to take the Giro closer to the public and thus favours city circuit, which is reasonable but should not come at the cost of good racing

But RCS could have chosen better nation for the Grande Partenza, as in one that actually likes cycling. Witness the team presentation.

 

[Gigs_98]

It really does the "don't do too many MTF in the 3rd week" without doing the thing you're supposed to do instead of the MTFs.

I think Tagliacozzo is also just disappointing for what it needs to do, the 400m flat at the very end piss me off disproportionately, etc.

But with the first 2 weeks you cannot change that much to make it better or put MTFs in if you wanna finish in the samep laces. Realistically you can do a 10 minute murito finish in Nova Gorica and put a Cat 1 at 15km to go on stage 8, but that requires approaching from the north.

The Giro just needs to put in more decent MTFs in the south and then leave them out in the Alps, but they never do it outside of Blockhaus.

Yeah it feels like they got genuinely self aware that having a bunch of monster stages in the third week but nothing beforehand is bad, but they didn't understand how to fix it.

Another thing I was thinking is that maybe they wanted to Pogacar-proof the route. If someone wants to win the race by ten minutes on this route at least they will have to create a show to do so. Of course when no Pogacar or Vingegaard are actually entering the race you just end up with a bad route.

 

[Red Rick]

Yeah it feels like they got genuinely self aware that having a bunch of monster stages in the third week but nothing beforehand is bad, but they didn't understand how to fix it.

Another thing I was thinking is that maybe they wanted to Pogacar-proof the route. If someone wants to win the race by ten minutes on this route at least they will have to create a show to do so. Of course when no Pogacar or Vingegaard are actually entering the race you just end up with a bad route.

The Giro has been very backloaded for a long time. I don't believe Pogacar or Vingegaard had anything to do with it.

If you want me to go full tinfoil hat it's more likely to me they wanted Roglic vs Evenepoel while making the route extremely favorable for the latter.

 

[Gigs_98]

The Giro has been very backloaded for a long time. I don't believe Pogacar or Vingegaard had anything to do with it.

If you want me to go full tinfoil hat it's more likely to me they wanted Roglic vs Evenepoel while making the route extremely favorable for the latter.

It's been backloaded for a long time but with a much higher quantity of clear gc stages. I mean last year had more cat.1 mtf's in the first ten stages than this year in all 21 stages.