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

[Dazed and Confused]

is there a tube link?
edit: yes there is. safebet posting a link earlier.......

 

[Netserk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1995513953976553731

View: https://x.com/laflammerouge16/status/1995513953976553731

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Comfortably the best route any of the women's GT equivalents has had in the modern era (ie post-relaunch of the women's Tour).

 

[Netserk]

Comfortably the best route any of the women's GT equivalents has had in the modern era (ie post-relaunch of the women's Tour).

Very happy for that to be the case, especially with the calendar spot next year. Will be easier to follow closely, and worthy of it.

I just hope that in won't make it even more difficult to postpone the Giro by a week or two in a few years.

 

[gavia88]

damn, when are they going to show the route

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If Gaia Realini returns to form, this could be a route for her, although she could also easily lose it in one of the trickier descents.

With a Finestre/Sestriere combo you could of course argue that an MTT is overkill and that it would have been better to have had a flatter ITT instead, but since the race hasn't had an uphill time trial since 2021 I still welcome the change/return to roots.

 

[Netserk]

damn, when are they going to show the route

Best served with extra waffle.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Obviously Fauniera's return to the Giro remains fans' wet dream, right?

 

[Netserk]

They actually go through Viggiano again, I thought they'd make the stage substantially easier than that.

A loop in the beginning of the Blockhaus stage, making the stage more than 240 km. Good.

 

[Netserk]

Saint-Barthélémy from the same side as it's only inclusion before, I had thought they would have done it in the opposite direction.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

A loop in the beginning of the Blockhaus stage, making the stage more than 240 km. Good

Not if the riders boycot it it isn't.

 

[Red Rick]

They actually go through Viggiano again, I thought they'd make the stage substantially easier than that.

A loop in the beginning of the Blockhaus stage, making the stage more than 240 km. Good.

RCS literally reading cyclingnews forum and suddenly making stages over 240 just when Red Rick is posting about fresh legs creating more action when it's just about the MTF anyway

 

[Red Rick]

Not if the riders boycot it it isn't.

Incoming "don't you care about riders' health"

 

[Potomac]

Aosta Pila.....good lord!

 

[vappaxbipmv]

A few stages are very hard but the rest is very soft. If some hard one gets changed or even cancelled ...

 

[gavia88]

more boring talking

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It is so obviously missing a big, non-MTF-centric mountain stage somewhere between Blockhaus and Piani di Pezze. As has been the standard from 2022 onwards, they are a few changes away from having a very good route, but the missing parts/bad decisions are important enough for the end result to be rather mediocre.

 

[OlavEH]

That Cari stage is a good candidate for most useless mountain stage in the Giro in later years.....

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

SPOILER, Atto finale: il percorso del Giro d'Italia 2026 in anteprima

Per voi l'unico e inimitabile spoilerone: una sola cronometro (ma lunga) e molte salite; ecco in pillole il Giro d'Italia 2026 che verrà p

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This was correct in terms of the start and finish locations, if not all the routes from A to B.

 

[Netserk]

Bit superfluous inclusion of Coi.

 

[houtdffan]

there is no good reason at all that the final stage cannot be an ITT vs a circuit race

 

[Netserk]

 

[Devil's Elbow]

That Cari stage is a good candidate for most useless mountain stage in the Giro in later years.....

San Martino di Castrozza 2019 and Bormio 2025 are both unequivocally worse, TBF.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yates with what appears to be white Adidas trainers on the Giro stage, can take the boy out of Manchester etc...

 

[Netserk]

Yates with what appears to be white Adidas trainers on the Giro stage, can take the boy out of Manchester etc...

Nibali is not much better ...