Blog - Giro d Italia

The UCI WorldTeams (UCI WorldTour) for 2018 and the other teams

The year is about to come to and end. That seems to be the perfect moment to catch up with the UCI's decisions about the registration of the UCI WorldTeams for 2018, the teams which will participate in all UCI WorldTour races. At the same time we'll have a look at the second division teams, the Pro Continental teams.

The 18 UCI WorldTeams for 2018

The Tour de France 2018 will start one week later .. and with less riders!

It was the surprise announcement made by the UCI yesterday and it was confirmed to velowire.com by A.S.O. today: the Tour de France 2018 will start one week later than planned and it will thus take place from 7 till 29 July 2018. Furthermore, the UCI announced that the number of riders will be reduced to 8 instead of 9 per team, as asked for by A.S.O. for 2017 already ...

The dates of the Tour de France 2018: from Saturday 7 till Sunday 29 July 2018

The Tour of Italy 2017 (100th Giro) race route on Google Maps/Google Earth

This Friday, 5 May 2017, the Tour of Italy 2017 (or Giro d'Italia 2017) will start on the island Sardinia south of Corsica, with three stages in line on the island followed by a transfer towards the mainland. All the other details about the race route, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth can be discovered in this article, so you can follow the battle for pink with all the knowledge of the race you need!

Due to a lack of time and since the conception of these maps requires quite a lot of work, velowire.com offers you to start with the race route of the 9 first stages, knowing that the following stages will be published progressively as soon as I finish them, but in any case always quite some time before they'll take place! ...

Team selections for the WorldTour races in France - A.S.O. (Tour de France, Paris-Nice and Critérium du Dauphiné) and in Italy - RCS (Giro d'Italia, Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milano-Sanremo)

The 2017 cycling season is alive and kicking already and there have already been 4 UCI WorldTour* races this year and there are still 34 to come.

As you know, the UCI WorldTour races can invite, in addition to the 18 UCI WorldTeams, other continental pro teams, with a so called wildcard. And all those races of course do that to come up with a nice and dense peloton starting in all of the races.

The French (organised by A.S.O.) and Italian races (organised by RCS Sport) have already announced which teams they invited this year and hereunder you'll find the list for each of them.

* yes indeed, in addition to the Santos Tour Down Under, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is now the second Australian race on this prestigious calendar, and the Abu Dhabi Tour the third one, despite the fact that for the ...

One less rider in the Grand Tours (TDF, Vuelta, Giro) and the classics .. or not?

Through a common press release sent out on 25 November around 7PM, the three big cycling race organisors:
- Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O., organisor of the Tour de France, Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, the Critérium du Dauphiné and Paris-Tours to mention just a few),

- RCS Sport (the Italian organisor of the Giro d'Italia, Tirreno Adriatico, Milan Sanremo and Il Lombardia for example) and

- Flanders Classics (the Belgian organisor of numerous classics: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen [A travers la Flandre], Gent-W ...

The Tour of Italy 2016 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth

This Friday, the 6th of May 2016, the Tour of Italy 2016 (or Giro d'Italia 2016) will start in Apeldoorn in The Netherlands with an individual time trial. All the other details about the race route, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race routes on Google Maps/Google Earth are available in this article, so you can follow the "fight for pink" in the best possible conditions, knowing what the riders will face!

Due to a lack of time and because the creation of these maps represents a big amount of work, velowire.com offers you the race routes of the 6 first stages to start with, knowing that the others will be published progressively while I'm working on them but in any case always before they'll take place! The race routes of all stages are now online, as ...

The start of the Tour of Italy 2016 in The Netherlands officially presented

We already knew it since one year: the Giro d'Italia 2016 will start in The Netherlands. At that time, it was not clear yet where the pink jersey race would start, but the details of the Grand Start of the Tour of Italy 2016 have been announced yesterday!

The Tour of Italy 2016: 3 days in the province of Gelderland

The Tour of Italy (Giro d'Italia) 2015 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth

Today, Saturday 9 May 2015, the Tour of Italy 2015 (or Giro d'Italia 2015) starts in San Lorenzo Al Mare with a team time trial which will mainly take place on ... a bike path! All the other details about the race routes, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth are available in this article and will allow you to follow the fight for pink in the best possible circumstances with the knowledge of the race!

The Giro d'Italia 2015 race route on Google Maps

The Tour of Italy 2015 race route presented: 7 mountain top finishes and less transfers

This Monday afternoon the 98th edition of the Tour of Italy, the Giro d'Italia 2015, was officially presented in Milan, in presence of Brian Cookson, the president of the International Cycling Union. 3,487.8 kilometers longs, this Giro commemorates Alfredo Martini*. The organisor of the Giro is also the organisor of the Milan-Sanremo classic and thus insists on the fact that this Giro is somehow a 3 weeks Classicissima the other way around, since the start will be close to Sanremo** and the race finishes in Milan.

In this article you'll find a quick presentation of the 21 stages which make up this Tour of Italy and the first details about the race route of these stages.

The Giro d'Italia 2015 in a few numbers

The tweets of the week, special Giro edition

The Tweets of the week have been quite popular on velowire.com when they listed every week the best Tweets of the cycling world.

After a long interruption, you can find below a special edition of Tweets of the week, dedicated to the Giro d'Italia 2014. Indeed, the Italian Grand Tour seems to have given the inspiration to the twitter-riders, a reason for velowire.com to select the best out of them!

The Giro d'Italia, isn't that the Tour of Italy?