Blog - Giro d Italia

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?

The Tour of Italy 2016 will start in The Netherlands!

After the additional information Amaury Sport Organisation provided yesterday about the start of the Tour de France 2015 in The Netherlands, it was announced today that the next year, in 2016, it'll be the turn of the Tour of Italy to visit the country which already saw the start of the Giro d'Italia 2010*.

The start city has not yet been confirmed, but it seems that Den Bosch^#, which also organised the Grand Départ of the Tour de France in 1996**, is the best candidate.

The start of the Giro d'Italia 2016 in The Netherlands, negociated by Libéma Profcycling, like in 2010

A summary of the first week of the Tour of Italy 2014

After the summary of the 3 Irish stages of the Tour of Italy 2014, velowire.com now looks back on the first week of the Giro d'Italia 2014 on this second rest day of the Italian race.

Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEDGE) arrived in Italy with the pink jersey on his shoulders and the Australian rider managed to keep this precious leader's jersey of the general classification until the start of the first mountain stage last Saturday. Since the finish of that stage, his compatriot Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) wears this jersey and he thus still has to defend it for 12 stages starting tomorrow.

4/ Tuesday 12 May 2014 - Giovinazzo > Bari - 112 km

A summary of the 3 Irish stages of the Tour of Italy 2014

Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEDGE): keep the pink jersey as long as possible

1/ Friday 9 May 2014 - team time trial - Belfast > Belfast: no surprises but rain and an important crash!

The Tour of Italy 2014 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and all details

Friday 9 May 2014. Belfast, Ireland.

That doesn't ring a bell for you? You did not immediately think of the Giro d'Italia 2014, the 79th edition of the Tour of Italy? Not really surprising since this Italian Grand Tour starts for the first time from Ireland and it's start will be on a Friday instead of a Saturday as usual.

All other details about the race routes, the roads the riders will follow, the time- and route schedule/itinerary, the stage profiles and the tracks on Google Maps/Google Earth can be found in this article, in order to follow the fight for pink in the best possible way!

The Giro d'Italia 2014 race route on Google Maps

The Giro d'Italia/Tour of Italy 2014 in detail: maps and profiles

WARNING: the information provided below, based on the initial presentation of the Tour of Italy 2014's race route is no longer up-to-date. If you'd like to know all details of the race route, check out the article
>> The Tour of Italy 2014 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and all details.

While we still have to wait a little bit over 2 weeks before we get to know in detail the Tour de France 2014 race route, the one of the Giro d'Italia 2014 has been announced this Monday ...

The ultima tappa of the Giro d'Italia 2013 for Mark Cavendish, Vincenzo Nibali in pink

Today was the 21st stage, the ultimo tappa thus of this Giro d'Italia 2013. A Giro with much less animation than some of those we've seen a few years ago but a Giro which was mostly impacted by the weather.

The last stage was, as often in a Grand Tour, without much interest, except of course to know the name of the winner of the last bunch sprint in the streets of Brescia and it was, not really surprisingly, the man whose nickname (well, at least in Italy) is the fastest man in the world, Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep).

The summary of the 21st stage of the Tour of Italy 2013: Riese Pio X > Brescia