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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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this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2022| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: thursday 21 April 2022 at 0:10:00
Team Jumbo-Visma presents an original jersey for the Tour de France 2022: The Masterpiece
Every year, the Dutch Team Jumbo-Visma needs to wear a special team shirt during the Tour de France. The usual team shirt, yellow with black accents, is indeed too similar to the Yellow jersey worn by the leader of the general classifications and during the French Grand Tour a solution thus needs to be found in the form of a specific team jersey.

The team could have simply develop a specific team shirt and wear that every year for the Tour, but instead of that, the team chose for a surprise and originality in every edition of the Grande Boucle. Let's no longer wait to have a look at how Primož Roglič, Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard and their team mates will be recognisable on the Tour de France 2022 roads: thanks to The Masterpiece!
Why a specific team shirt?
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2022| Marketing
Added: thursday 14 April 2022 at 0:42:00
Paris-Roubaix 2022: its race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North
The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2022, will take place this Sunday 17 April. For the 119th edition of the race, the organisor decided to modify the race route just a little bit compared to last year, for the first cobble stones sections: the Vertain (# 26) section finds back its longer version, just like the Saulzoir (# 24) section. The number of sections remains the same however (30) and 54.8 kilometers of cobble stones will be awaiting the riders. The total distance of the race will be 257.2 kilometers.

In the Hell of the North a very small thing can come ruin the race for a rider or come at hand for another. Nothing's thus decided upfront, it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that the whole story will be written!
The 30 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2022
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