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

[Ilmaestro99]

Anyway I am the only one counting 6 mountain stages. 5 of which are rubbish? Doesn't seem a good route

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Whether Remco goes to the Giro or not he will probably end up having a two week training camp in Italy during May.

 

[Red Rick]

@Netserk saying the Tour route is better had me question my memory.

Bit however ass this Giro route is, it's still better than the Tour route. Imagine that.

 

[Netserk]

@Netserk saying the Tour route is better had me question my memory.

Bit however ass this Giro route is, it's still better than the Tour route. Imagine that.

Galibier-Sarenne wipes the floor with Giau, both as single stages and as part of the whole. Very little upside in the rest of the Giro route, unless you love a week 1 Blockhaus MTF and a stage 10 40 km flat ITT over the Tour's TTT, Tourmalet and ITT.

 

[Red Rick]

Galibier-Sarenne wipes the floor with Giau, both as single stages and as part of the whole. Very little upside in the rest of the Giro route, unless you love a week 1 Blockhaus MTF and a stage 10 40 km flat ITT over the Tour's TTT, Tourmalet and ITT.

If I had a nickle every time they went full gas on the Galibier and it all came back together I'd be filthy *** rich.

 

[Berniece]

I’m happy with it, purely because I’m going to watch stage 7 and 8 live

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Galibier-Sarenne wipes the floor with Giau, both as single stages and as part of the whole. Very little upside in the rest of the Giro route, unless you love a week 1 Blockhaus MTF and a stage 10 40 km flat ITT over the Tour's TTT, Tourmalet and ITT.

On top of that Tourmalet + Gavarnie can deliver long GC action as well. The rest of this Giro is more like uni-puerto Vuelta action. Very poor route (obviously the Tour is poor as well, too backloaded).

 

[Gigs_98]

If I had a nickle every time they went full gas on the Galibier and it all came back together I'd be filthy *** rich.

But then at least they went full gas on the Galibier.

 

[Red Rick]

But then at least they went full gas on the Galibier.

Bernal on unipuerto Giau did more damage than Galibier has done since I don't know how long.

 

[Gigs_98]

Bernal on unipuerto Giau did more damage than Galibier has done since I don't know how long.

So what? The point is that the Galibier from the north is often causing great stages even if the race ends up coming back together. Both Granon 2022 and Alpe d'Huez are among the best Tour stages in recent history, and all the favorites started the final climb together. Aside from that I also think the reason I prefer the Tour stage is not because I necessarily think the Galibier is better than the Giau but because of the climbs that come afterwards.

 

[Red Rick]

So what? The point is that the Galibier from the north is often causing great stages even if the race ends up coming back together. Both Granon 2022 and Alpe d'Huez are among the best Tour stages in recent history, and all the favorites started the final climb together. Aside from that I also think the reason I prefer the Tour stage is not because I necessarily think the Galibier is better than the Giau but because of the climbs that come afterwards.

Both cases were entirely circumstantial. Contador would have attacked anything in 2011, and Vingegaard/Roglic making a mess out of the specific intermediate section on top of the Telegraphe is hardly a predictor for future racing.

If anything it's an indictment of the climb that twice (three times if we include 2007) we have some of the best of the era go full gung ho on this climb and every time everythign came back together again.

 

[ice&fire]

This looks like a lame attempt to please the newly elected President of AIOCC

 

[memyselfandI]

It's a trap! Too intimidating for Pogi and Remco. My dream scenario that they all enter except Vingo skips after stage one because of sore throat. Pogi smashes Remco (well I can accept vice versa for sure) and Vingo smashes Pogi again in the Tour (with Wout tbf but anyway).

 

[OlavEH]

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

The first one is probably the worst yeah. And Macugnaga in 2011. But Cari is at least at top 3 or 5.

 

[OlavEH]

Are they using any muritos on the Fermo stage? If not, that is a waste of the century......

All in all this seems like a really, really underwhelming route!

 

[Forever The Best]

Another awful route. Seems like both Giro and Tour are a step back from last year, not sure about Giro though, may need another look at both parcours. (worth noting that 2025 Tour was better than I initially thought, I think week 1 was great for example)

 

[Red Rick]

The first one is probably the worst yeah. And Macugnaga in 2011. But Cari is at least at top 3 or 5.

By virtue of being a moderately difficult MTF it's pretty hard to be one of the worst GT mountain stage designs, and basically any GT has worse mountain stages by simply having mountain stages that are more likely than not simply not gonna do anything.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

A lot of sprinter stages. A belgie rider might have a successful giro after all

 

[ashhutch1997]

On a side note, stage 15 to Milan is one of the worst penultimate Sunday I've ever seen in a Giro, make it a flat ITT, and make stage 10 ITT a bit more undulating and you've got a better route.