Here’s a Giro d’Italia calendar for your phone or organiser with all stages listed along with a rating for their likely importance to the race or potential for action.
These calendars seem popular for each grand tour. This lists each stage, with the distance plus a stellar rating to indicate the strategic importance or likely entertainment.
If it’s not for you but you’re interested in watching one lesson is that every stage until the final weekend is expected to finish at 5.15pm CEST.
One week to go and here are all the 2025 Giro d’Italia stage profiles together on one page. From here to the end of May you’ll also find them at inrng.com/giro, along with a technical guide to the race rules and regulations… once they’ve been shared by the organisers.
Sam Watson was out training and one and half hours into a five hour ride got a call from the Ineos team to turn around , pack his bags and get to Switzerland. The next day he won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie. It’s a good news story but these late calls can also be dreaded by riders.
The Tour de Romandie starts today with a prologue, the only World Tour race that still has one. It’s different from an opening time trial as it’s defined as no more than 8km, also the rules say if a rider crashes and doesn’t finish they can start tomorrow’s stage with time of the slowest rider.
It’s not just the prologue, Romandie’s course is often traditional, even retro: no wall-climbs, no cobbles, no gravel. But this is part of the attraction for participants where Giro contenders get as risk-free racing as they can hope for, all on opulent Swiss tarmac. Also teams can test out younger riders in a World Tour stage race that’s less hectic. For a change the weather forecast looks good too.
Tadej Pogačar attacks on La Redoute to go solo and win Liège-Bastogne-Liège for the third time. Nobody could or would respond, especially as Remco Evenepoel was out of team mates and out of position.
Peter Barry Hoban has died at the age of 85. One of the pioneering British cyclists, he made a name for himself in Europe with eight Tour de France stages, Gent-Wevelgem and more which made him arguably Britain’s best cyclist until the likes of Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish surpassed his achievements.
A long sprint, Remco Evenepoel has launched with 250m to go and Tadej Pogačar seems to have the measure of him. But out of the slipstream comes Mattias Skjelmose to deliver the surprise, sprinting past the two stars to take a fine win. Indeed the more you watch the sprint, the more convincing Skjelmose’s win proves.
Addicted to Tadej Pogačar? Like many addicts you may not realise it or want to confront it but the Slovenian is becoming essential to the sport.
A look at the standings this week, plus a look at the victory rankings to see how many wins teams have and which ones are still chasing a World Tour win.
Stopped by the side of the road, Tadej Pogačar tries to get his chain back in place after a crash, leaving Mathieu van der Poel to ride away. This wasn’t the precise winning moment as Pogačar could still hope to catch his arch rival… but he never did. Once again the two riders dominated a race, while misfortune seemed reserved for others.