The day after the complete presentation we take stock of the next pink race
Now the cards are all uncovered: the route of the next Giro d'Italia is revealed, from the start in Hungary to the arrival inside the Verona Arena with a 17 km time trial. The total kilometers against the clock at the next “Pink Race” will be 26, the lowest altitude since 1962, just when the most representative Italian rider on the international scene is Filippo Ganna; formidable specialist and two-time specialty world champion (consecutively). The Giro has already concluded with a time trial in Verona on four occasions, the most famous in 1984, when Francesco Moser took the pink jersey off Laurent Fignon .
This time we will arrive at the Arena after the Torricelle ascent, which characterized the course of the World Championship in 1999 and 2004. Gaétan Scherrer for the team returns to the small presentation of the Giro and calls it “a fun feuilleton. This pirouette, whose merit was that of occupying the media space, hides economic reasons: the Giro does not yet have a broadcaster for next year, having not reached an agreement with Rai. Without a channel to broadcast it, no television ceremony could reveal the complete history of the journey ”.
The French newspaper, in its analysis of the route, points out how "this edition number 105 will be unique: the longest stage will be limited to 201 kilometers (compared to 235 last spring and 258 in 2020), the organizers favored short days and therefore nervous. While the Tour de France will resume next summer with long time trial stages, the Giro pushes in the opposite direction, unheard of for a great Giro in modern times and will open its doors to sprinters, offering them seven great goals, including four during the first ones. six days".
As for the protagonists, some previews are already arriving and will be useful for building your teams at Fantacycling , especially in private leagues: Vincenzo Nibali wants to be there and his managers at Astana have already hinted that he will accompany Miguel Angel Lopez . Remco Evenepoel should prefer the Vuelta, given the few time trial kilometers. Tadej Pogacar , on the other hand, does not exclude the possibility of facing the double Giro-Tour commitment: the last one to succeed was Marco Pantani in 1998 and the young Slovenian, already in history, wants to enter the legend.
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