The route for the 2024 Giro d’Italia was unveiled on Friday night on the Teatro Sociale as a part of the Trento Sports activities Competition, with two-time winner Vincenzo Nibali serving because the present host and 2023 winner Primož Roglič among the many main professional riders in attendance as the three,321km course was revealed.
The massive names becoming a member of Roglič in Trento to be taught particulars of the 107th version of the Corsa Rosa have been his future Bora-Hansgrohe teammate and 2022 Giro champion Jai Hindley, Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), who has six profession stage wins on the Giro and Peter Sagan, winner of two levels on the Giro d’Italia and Maglia Ciclamino in 2021.
Race organisers RCS Sport, who not too long ago took over administration of the ladies’s stage race, additionally formally launched the rebranded eight-day occasion because the Giro d’Italia Ladies and introduced that it’s going to happen from July 7-14, 2024.
Earlier than the lads took the highlight, Italian WorldTour riders Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Letizia Paternoster (Jayco AlUla) joined RCS Sport CEO Paolo Bellino on the stage. They watched as a video celebrating girls cyclists was performed within the theatre, and the brand new trophy for the Giro d’Italia Ladies was unveiled, an infinity loop design for the Limitless Trophy. Bellino confirmed a separate ceremony might be held within the subsequent month to unveil the ladies’s course.
Longo Borghini and Paternoster each delivered their reactions to the new trophy and the buildup for subsequent yr’s girls’s Giro. Paternoster, a monitor world champion in 2021, mentioned “2024 might be an necessary yr, additionally for many who, like me, are racing on each street and monitor. The Giro d’Italia Ladies might be necessary in view of Paris 2024 and we’re positive that RCS Sport will organise a terrific occasion”.
Longo Borghini – the reigning Italian street champion who has twice been on the ultimate general podium on the Giro Donne – mentioned she was moved by the design and needed to carry the trophy because the champion.
“This is a crucial day for girls’s biking. It is a terrific first time, an additional step ahead for our motion. My ambition is to win this trophy. I suppose will probably be a dream for all of us”.
The distinctive Trofeo Senza Advantageous was subsequent introduced onto the stage, showcasing the names of the winners of the Giro throughout the final 106 race editions. The editor of Gazzetto dello Sport was joined on stage by Italian racing star Nibali, who helped unveil the 21 levels, segmenting the presentation for every week of the race. In 2024 the occasion will wind counter-clockwise from the Italian Alps, south by way of Pompei, again north alongside the Adriatic coast after which by way of the Dolomites earlier than the route ends in Rome with a circuit stage across the Colosseum on Sunday, Could 26.
Peter Sagan, a three-time World Champion who retired from the street earlier this month, made a short look on the stage in a swimsuit and athletic footwear with brilliant pink accents to debate the primary particular person time trial, with an uphill end in Perugia after 37.2km. He additionally defined his transition again to mountain biking to compete on the Paris Olympic Video games.
Filippo Ganna and Jai Hindley joined Nibali within the highlight to undergo the six levels within the second week of racing. Ganna, who has taken 22 of his 28 victories within the race in opposition to the clock, described the 2024 Giro as “robust and testing”.
“It is going to be a really demanding Giro, clearly my focus might be on the 2 time trials. Of the 2, the one in Desenzano is essentially the most appropriate for me. Successful levels on the Giro is all the time particular, I wish to do it once more,” Ganna mentioned.
Stage 15 caught the attention of Hindley, who mentioned: “I believe will probably be tremendous laborious the second week, and likewise with this final stage. It’s a monster day on the bike and ending at altitude might be tremendous robust, so count on to see fireworks.”
The ultimate week returns with a conventional crescendo within the Dolomites and a second general end within the coronary heart of Rome. That week might be “feared” is how Nibali summed up the presentation, with three days in succession from stage 18 to twenty being a very powerful.
“So many climbs within the second and third week, I’m satisfied that the race might be open till the tip, like final yr, and that Monte Grappa might be the decisive mountain.” Nibali mentioned.
Reigning champion Roglič took the stage to relive his GC victory with a video on the large display.
“Now seeing it again, one of the crucial emotional days in my biking profession, and what can I say, unimaginable,” he mentioned, after watching the replay of the second he dropped a sequence on the stage 20 of final yr’s race enroute to the GC title. “Successful on Monte Lussari was one of the crucial emotional days in my profession. I rewatched that stage many occasions. It was loopy to have a good time with my followers.
“The stage I just like the a lot of the 2024 Giro is stage 20, with the double climb to Monte Grappa. I believe will probably be the decisive day”.