Giro d’Italia, The 107th Version is Unveiled

Six sprinter’s levels, two time trials totalling 68.2 kilometres, 5 mountain levels with 4 uphill finishes, and eight very tough and undulating levels can be on the menu for the 107th Giro d’Italia working from 4 to 26 Could. Riders will climb 42,900 metres in vertical elevation and canopy 3,321.2 kilometres. Grande Partenza from Piedmont with a stage that can stay within the historical past of the Giro. On 4 Could in truth, on the anniversary of the Grande Torino tragedy, the Corsa Rosa will contact the Colle di Superga to pay homage to the ‘Invincibili’. Grande Arrivo in Rome the place the Giro will finish for the sixth time in its historical past. The Passo dello Stelvio would be the Cima Coppi with its 2,758 metres. The climb of the Santuario di Oropa would be the Montagna Pantani whereas the Bartali stage would be the Viareggio-Rapolano Terme. Elisa Longo Borghini and Letizia Paternoster have unveiled the Trophy devoted to the winner of the Giro d’Italia Girls 2024.

The 107th Giro d’Italia
The route of the 107th Giro d’Italia, working from 4 to 26 Could 2024, was introduced on the Teatro Sociale of Trento, through the days of Il Competition of Sport. The Occasion, introduced by Cristina Fantoni and Nino Morici, was attended by many well-known faces in sport, leisure, establishments and corporations, all of whom are a part of the good Giro d’Italia household. The winner of the final Giro d’Italia, Primož Roglič, Filippo Ganna, Jai Hindley and three-time World Champion, Peter Sagan, in addition to an excellent rider who has made the historical past of the Corsa Rosa, Vincenzo Nibali, additionally spoke on the stage. To unveil the Trophy and speak concerning the Giro d’Italia Girls two biking champions as Elisa Longo Borghini and Letizia Paternoster. Among the many establishments additionally current have been Francesco Lollobrigida, Minister of Agriculture, Meals Sovereignty and Forestry, and Cordiano Dagnoni, President of the Italian Biking Federation.
Doing the honours have been the President of RCS Mediagroup, Urbano Cairo, the Managing Director at RCS Sport, Paolo Bellino, the Director of the Giro d’Italia, Mauro Vegni, and the Director of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Stefano Barigelli.

Grande Partenza
It begins with two uncommon levels already filled with climbs that can power the captains and ‘favourites’ to be already in good situation, though they aren’t akin to to generate extreme gaps.

The 136-kilometre Venaria Reale-Torino is a lightened re-edition of the “mountain stage within the metropolis”. After an preliminary method by means of the hills of Turin, it approaches Superga from a less-travelled facet on the day of the seventy fifth anniversary of the Grande Torino tragedy. After passing the end line for the primary time, it would climb Colle Maddalena from the Eremo facet to complete on the normal end line in entrance of the Gran Madre.

Twenty-four hours later we’ll begin from Canavese (San Francesco al Campo) and using by means of the hills of Biella to reach on the closing climb of Oropa (150 km) the place in 1999 Marco Pantani achieved one among his most iconic victories by remounting 49 cyclists after a mechanical drawback and successful the stage.

The third stage gives a possible bunch dash (Novara-Fossano 165 km), however the sprinters must earn it because the precedent of a GranPiemonte (2009) reveals how a rider like Philippe Gilbert, can overturn the prediction and win.

The First Week
The Giro strikes on to Liguria (Acqui Terme-Andora 187km) after which Tuscany (Genoa-Lucca 177km) earlier than a sequence of demanding and in some circumstances doubtlessly decisive levels. There may be one hilly stage, a person time trial and a mountain stage with an uphill end. So as: Viareggio-Rapolano Terme (177 km) with about 12 km of gravel roads within the finale, partly already seen on the Strade Bianche. That is adopted by Foligno-Perugia, a person time trial (37.2 km) with the final 4 km uphill to achieve the historic centre, touching probably the most well-known locations in Umbria linked to Saint Francis akin to Assisi and Spello. After that, the second uphill end on the 14 km to Prati di Tivo (Spoleto-Prati di Tivo 153 km), already the location of levels on the Tirreno-Adriatico on a number of events. From Spoleto, we cross the Umbrian Apennines to reach on the Gran Sasso massif. Earlier than the remaining day, the caravan arrives in Naples (Avezzano-Napoli 206 km), in Through Caracciolo, with a possible dash stage.

The Second Week
After the remaining day, we set off once more from Pompeii for a stage that options an unprecedented uphill end (Pompei-Cusano Mutri [Bocca della Selva] 141 km) and culturally hyperlinks archaeology and palaeontology. Pompeii and close by Longola within the beginning space converse of Roman historical past, of each day life till the eruption of Vesuvius. Pietraroja a number of tens of kilometres away tells the story of the infant dinosaur ‘Ciro’ discovered fossilised virtually intact, which has made it attainable to be taught many issues concerning the world 65 million years in the past.

Francavilla al Mare will host a well-deserved dash (Foiano di Val Fortore-Francavilla al Mare 203 km) earlier than the ‘muri di Fano’ stage (Martinsicuro-Fano 183 km). A selective stage characterised by the ‘low partitions’ of the Marche area, these with excessive however not excessive gradients, which ought to deliver a specific bunch to compete for the stage victory.

There can be one other dash within the Riccione-Cento (179 km), which passes by means of the areas devastated by the flood of Could 2023. Weekend with two very demanding levels: Castiglione delle Stiviere-Desenzano del Garda: particular person time trial (31.0 km) and Manerba del Garda-Livigno (Mottolino) of 223 km with an unprecedented uphill end. The time trial is the final likelihood for the specialists to construct up a bonus over the climbers however, by the next day, the climbers can have the prospect to show the tables. So as to attain Livigno, 5200 m of vertical elevation can be overcome, with the interminable Forcola di Livigno within the finale (trespassing in Switzerland) and the arrival at Mottolino, the place the final 1800 m run on asphalt alongside a ski slope with alternating 18% ramps and brief, nearly flat sections.

The Third Week
Relaxation day and departure from Livigno for the Cima Coppi stage, which in 2024 will as soon as once more be the Stelvio Go with its 2758 m. The Livigno-Santa Cristina Valgardena (Monte Pana) gives 4400 m of vertical elevation culminating with the ultimate 2 km of Monte Pana at all times above 10%. The following stage from Selva di Val Gardena to Passo Brocon is 159 km lengthy and is without doubt one of the decisive levels of the final week. Apart from the brief stretch from Canazei to Predazzo, there are solely climbs and descents. The riders will climb the Passo Sella and the Passo Rolle, which made the historical past of the Giro within the early post-war interval, to cross the Brocon Go from two sides. That of Canal San Bovo, which has already seen the Giro of 1955-56-57 and 67 cross, and the unprecedented one among Val Malene with the lengthy stretch over 10% that results in the end.

The dash to Padua (Fiera di Primiero-Padova 166 km) and the medium-difficulty stage to Sappada (154 km from Mortegliano with Passo Duron and Sella Valcalda earlier than the finale – the stage passes by means of Peonis the place Ottavio Bottecchia died) anticipate the showdown at Alpago-Bassano del Grappa (175 km with two climbs of Monte Grappa from Semonzo that noticed the victorious assault by Nibali in 2010 and the time trial received by Quintana in 2014). Grande Arrivo in Rome with a circuit within the Everlasting Metropolis.

Statistics

• Regione Piemonte will host the Grande Partenza of the Giro d’Italia for the fourth time. The precedents are: 1961, on the event of the Centenary of the Unification of Italy the beginning was in Turin with a stage known as ‘Trittico Tricolore’ which included 3 circuits (White, Crimson and Inexperienced). The stage winner was Miguel Poblet. 2011, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy was celebrated, the beginning was with the Venaria Reale-Torino, a crew time trial received by HTC-Highroad and Maglia Rosa to Marco Pinotti. 2021, begin with a person time trial in Turin, received by Filippo Ganna.
• 4 Could, the day of the primary stage, will mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the Superga tragedy. The Corsa Rosa pays homage to the Invincibili of the Grande Torino by passing by means of Superga.
• Santuario D’Oropa would be the Montagna of the Giro d’Italia 25 years after the epic victory of the Pirata.
• forty fifth stage end in Naples, which can host the arrival of the Corsa Rosa for the third 12 months in a row.
• There are 7 new begin areas: San Francesco al Campo (stage 2), Foiano di Val Fortore (stage 11), Martinsicuro (stage 12), Castiglione delle Stiviere (stage 14), Manerba del Garda (stage 15), Santa Cristina Valgardena (stage 17) and Mortegliano (stage 19).
• There are 6 new end areas: Andora (stage 4), Rapolano Terme (stage 6), Cusano Mutri (stage 10), Desenzano del Garda (stage 14), Santa Cristina Valgardena (stage 16), and Passo Brocon (stage 17).
• Passo dello Stelvio is Cima Coppi for the eleventh time. At 2758 metres, it’s the highest altitude ever reached by the Giro d’Italia.
• Rome hosts the Grande Arrivo for the sixth time in historical past. The precedents are 1911, 1950, 2009, 2018 and 2023.

Giro d’Italia Girls
In the course of the occasion, the Giro d’Italia Girls’s Trophy, which this 12 months can be organised by RCS Sport, was additionally introduced. The Trophy was unveiled to the general public by the 2 champions Elisa Longo Borghini and Letizia Paternoster. The form of the Trophy is that of the inverted eight, the image of infinity (∞), which in arithmetic signifies a limiteless dimension. A selection that desires to signify the infinite ardour, values, challenges and successes that the Corsa Rosa conveys. A devoted presentation of the route can be made by the top of the 12 months.

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