Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements

[Onizuka999]

Giro will start officially on Friday so there will be a rest day on Monday.

 

[Berniece]

Was it already rumoured that there would be a 40km ITT in Tuscany?

 

[vappaxbipmv]

Will we see a Remco & Vingegaard friendly parcours? Lots of tt kms, which also would bring Italy's favourite son, Ganna to the start.

The is no Remco AND Jonas friendly parcours if both are present. Lots of TT kms, good for Remco. Few TT kms, good for Jonas

 

[Berniece]

The is no Remco AND Jonas friendly parcours if both are present. Lots of TT kms, good for Remco. Few TT kms, good for Jonas

Lots of ITT kms and multiple multi high mountain stages?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

A long 50-km TT (climbing Fauniera and finishing in sankt. Anna d' Vinadio) should favor both Remco and Vingo, no?

 

[vappaxbipmv]

Lots of ITT kms and multiple multi high mountain stages?

That's good for Remco, not good for Jonas compared to him if both are there. There's no way to not lose significant time if you're Jonas and it's not MTT

 

[YavorD]

That's good for Remco, not good for Jonas compared to him if both are there. There's no way to not lose significant time if you're Jonas and it's not MTT

From what we've seen it the Tour, Vingegaard won't lose more than 3 (I'm leaning towards 2 minutes max, but whatever) minutes even with 100 km of ITT.
He can close that time in 2 tough high mountain stages, so no. That's not good for Evenepoel.

 

[vappaxbipmv]

From what we've seen it the Tour, Vingegaard won't lose more than 3 (I'm leaning towards 2 minutes max, but whatever) minutes even with 100 km of ITT.
He can close that time in 2 tough high mountain stages, so no. That's not good for Evenepoel.

Good for Remco means a realistic route on which he has the most chance of beating Jonas, in this case. With 1 20km TT he has basically no chance at all unless his climbing is much better than ever before

 

[YavorD]

Good for Remco means a realistic route on which he has the most chance of beating Jonas, in this case. With 1 20km TT he has basically no chance at all unless his climbing is much better than ever before

But Evenepoel doesn't have a chance against Vingegaard on any realistic route unless he improves his climbing and that's the point.
Even if you put 2 long TT's, Vingegaard isn't a bad TT rider and unless he has a bad day, he won't lose that much time and he can gain that time on 2 tough mountain stages.
If you put 2 ITT's, 40km long in the Giro, with the projected mountain stages (Blockhaus, Cari, Pezze, Piancavallo, heck, even Pila) that's not a good route for Evenepoel compared to Vingegaard.

 

[AlpRaid]

But Evenepoel doesn't have a chance against Vingegaard on any realistic route unless he improves his climbing and that's the point.
Even if you put 2 long TT's, Vingegaard isn't a bad TT rider and unless he has a bad day, he won't lose that much time and he can gain that time on 2 tough mountain stages.
If you put 2 ITT's, 40km long in the Giro, with the projected mountain stages (Blockhaus, Cari, Pezze, Piancavallo, heck, even Pila) that's not a good route for Evenepoel compared to Vingegaard.

Gap between vingo and Remco not the same as with Pog.

How much did Vingo beat Almeida (and Pidders!) at the Vuelta.

Vingo favorite for sure. If he has a healthy prep for once, Remco should be competitive, tho, particularly if good amount of flat tts.

 

[AmRacer]

Gap between vingo and Remco not the same as with Pog.

How much did Vingo beat Almeida (and Pidders!) at the Vuelta.

Vingo favorite for sure. If he has a healthy prep for once, Remco should be competitive, tho, particularly if good amount of flat tts.

Jonas wasn't at his best during the Vuelta. And you don't know how good the other two were.

 

[Cookster15]

But Evenepoel doesn't have a chance against Vingegaard on any realistic route unless he improves his climbing and that's the point.

Of course Vingegaard is still the overwhelming favourite. But if Remco can rediscover his climbing level of the 2024 TdF I think he will be highly competitive against Vingegaard depending upon the TTs.

And who says Remco can’t climb better than he did in the 2024 Tour?

In any case, if Evenepoel still loses the Giro but can keep the result in the balance until stage 20 then that is still a great result for Remco and Red Bull IMO.

 

[Berniece]

From what we've seen it the Tour, Vingegaard won't lose more than 3 (I'm leaning towards 2 minutes max, but whatever) minutes even with 100 km of ITT.
He can close that time in 2 tough high mountain stages, so no. That's not good for Evenepoel.

Evenepoel won 1min20s in 33km’s this TDF. When he wasn’t even able to go fully in the red. With 100km of ITT he would have a lead of 4min at least.

 

[houtdffan]

From what we've seen it the Tour, Vingegaard won't lose more than 3 (I'm leaning towards 2 minutes max, but whatever) minutes even with 100 km of ITT.
He can close that time in 2 tough high mountain stages, so no. That's not good for Evenepoel.

100km of flat ITT?

That would be a repeat of the Indurain years in the TTs.

Vingo is not staying within 3 minutes of Remco over 100km of flat ITT

Like Pog, he'd have trouble staying within 3 minutes over a single 50km flat ITT. The gaps really expand once you get toward 50km

 

[Red Rick]

Evenepoel won 1min20s in 33km’s this TDF. When he wasn’t even able to go fully in the red. With 100km of ITT he would have a lead of 4min at least.

Meanwhile it is common wisdom Vingegaard did the best ITT of his life.

 

[YavorD]

Evenepoel won 1min20s in 33km’s this TDF. When he wasn’t even able to go fully in the red. With 100km of ITT he would have a lead of 4min at least.

Come on now, both of us know that Vingegaard massively underperformed in this TT.
Evenepoel won't gain 4 minutes unless TT's are in stage 1 and stage 3 or something. And even that's questionable.

 

[YavorD]

100km of flat ITT?

That would be a repeat of the Indurain years in the TTs.

Vingo is not staying within 3 minutes of Remco over 100km of flat ITT

Like Pog, he'd have trouble staying within 3 minutes over a single 50km flat ITT. The gaps really expand once you get toward 50km

He will. Especially if the second TT is stage 20, Vingegaard probably won't even drop a minute there.
And 2 minutes in the first TT, I think you're underrating Vingegaard (in the Tour).

 

[Berniece]

Meanwhile it is common wisdom Vingegaard did the best ITT of his life.

Come on now, both of us know that Vingegaard massively underperformed in this TT.
Evenepoel won't gain 4 minutes unless TT's are in stage 1 and stage 3 or something. And even that's questionable.

Did we ever got an explanation?