No procession, no parade, no criterium finish. Instead the maglia rosa is in play with Tom Dumoulin likely to take the race but nothing is certain and all steps on the podium are to be settled today.
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Giro d’Italia Stage 20 Preview
The final mountain stage and everything to play for. Yesterday saw Tom Dumoulin crack on the final climb, lose time and surrender the race lead. Today has more climbing and could see more changes.
Giro d’Italia Stage 19 Preview
A hard stage with the awkward final climb of Monte Cavallo. Hopefully we get two races for the price of one, a breakaway taking time early and then the GC contenders exploiting the final summit finish of the race.
Giro d’Italia Stage 18 Preview
It’s Ascension Day and not just the ecumenical celebration, here’s a short stage packed with climbing, descending and next to no valley roads. A fearsome stage? Possibly but for all the 4,000m of climbing packed into such a short space these climbs are all on well-engineered roads, a test of power rather than wild ambush country. It’s on TV from start to finish.
Giro d’Italia Stage 16 Preview
D-Day as in Dumoulin’s day in the high mountains and a huge stage awaits with three hard climbs spread over a gruelling 222km, or six and half hours.
Giro Rest Day Review
The weather looks set fair for the Alps with cool but sunny conditions expected for tomorrow’s siege of the Stelvio and for the rest of the week too. Tom Dumoulin looks in command and even signalled he was the Giro’s padrone at one point during yesterday’s stage when Nairo Quintana had crashed by telling the main group to slow. As the Giro enjoys its third rest day there’s the sense that everything so far been antipasti to the dishes about to be served up in the Alps.
Giro d’Italia Stage 15 Preview
A taste of autumn with a course borrows, or rather copies the Tour of Lombardy including the lively finish through Bergamo’s citadel.
Giro d’Italia Stage 14 Preview
The sacred and the profane, the Giro brings a bike race to one of the largest religious shrines in the Alps, Oropa and a climb that has been part of the race’s theatre in recent years even if it’s never been decisive.
Giro d’Italia Stage 13 Preview
A flat procession to Tortona, the town where Fausto Coppi died from malaria aged 40. Maybe not the most cheerful commemoration but there’s music along the way too.