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Added: thursday 05 May 2022 at 23:32:00
The Tour of Italy 2022 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
The month May has started already and it is thus already the time for the comeback of the first Grand Tour of the year, with the Tour of Italy 2022, or Giro d'Italia as Italians say, which starts this Friday 6 of May: exceptionally on a Friday because of the start in Hungary, which leads to an additional transfer/rest day, right on Monday.

The Giro d'Italia 2022 will take place from Friday 6 May 2022 till Sunday 29 May 2022, over a total distance of 3445.6 km split out in 21 different stages. It'll be the 105th edition of this Italian Grand Tour. Let's now look in detail to the different stages of this Tour of Italy 2022 with the race routes on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
The Giro d'Italia 2022 race route on Open Street Maps
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Added: friday 07 May 2021 at 23:39:00
The Tour of Italy 2021 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
This publication is unfortunately not available in English. You can however read the French version below.

Le mois de mai 2021 est entamé et - avec un retour sur la programmation habituelle - on retrouve donc déjà le Tour d'Italie 2021, ou Giro d'Italia comme on dit en langue locale en Italie.

Le Giro d'Italia 2021 aura lieu du samedi 8 mai 2021 jusqu'au dimanche 30 mai 2021, sur une distance totale de 3479,9 km répartis sur 21 étapes différentes. Il s'agira de la 104e édition de ce Grand Tour italien. Regardons en détail l'ensemble des étapes de ce Tour d'Italie 2021 avec les cartes Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
Le parcours du Giro d'Italia 2021 sur Open Street Maps
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Added: friday 10 May 2019 at 22:26:00
The Tour of Italy 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
Tomorrow, on Saturday 11 May 2019, the Giro d'Italia 2019 will start in Bologna with an individual time trial. The 102th edition of the Tour of Italy, which celebrates in 2019 its 110th anniversary, is made up of 21 stages of which three will be individual time trials (the 1st, 9th and 21st stage) for a total distance of 3,576.8 kilometers. 7 stages will have a mountain top finish while 5 stages will take place in the higher mountains and 7 in the medium mountains.

Let's now look in detail all stages of this Tour of Italy 2019 with the maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
The Giro d'Italia 2019 race route on Open Street Maps
1/ Saturday 11 May 2019 - Bologna > Bologna - individual time trial - 8 km
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Added: tuesday 26 December 2017 at 20:46:00
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
For the 18 UCI WorldTeams there are no changes between 2017 and 2018, except for some name changes.

Therefore, we'll seize the opportunity to give you a look at the 2018 team kits for the different top level teams! Here's the full list (the teams indicated with a star * are the teams which were submitted to validation by the licence committee, either because they didn't fulfill all the criteria or because their UCI WorldTeam licence expired at the end of 2017; you can have a look at ...
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Added: friday 23 June 2017 at 21:27:00
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
As usual, the Professional Cycling Council (PCC), of which Christian Prudhomme is one of the members, not directly in his role as the director of the Tour de France but in this case as a "Member designated by the other organisors of the UCI WorldTour, member of the AIOCC", which defines the calendar of the ...
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Added: thursday 04 May 2017 at 23:39:00
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! ...
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Added: monday 27 February 2017 at 22:38:00
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 ...
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Added: saturday 03 December 2016 at 17:52:00
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 ...
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Added: thursday 05 May 2016 at 14:57:00
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 ...
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Added: saturday 27 June 2015 at 21:33:00
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
For its 99th edition, the Giro d'Italia chose to start abroad, for the 12th time in the history of the race and for the 3rd time from The Netherlands (after Groningen in 2002 and Amsterdam pour for the Giro d'Italia 2010).

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