A good day for a breakaway in a race that’s been rewarding the breakaways so this should make for an exciting start to the stage too.
Profiling The Profiles
A quick note on stage profiles. We all rely on cross-section graphics used to depict the route elevation of a race, this blog’s daily race previews use them as the prime graphic because they’re a graphical heuristic for the day to come, at a glance you can tell a sprint stage from a GC day. Study it for a moment and it says even more but sometimes races can hide information about the route, deliberately or not.
Giro d’Italia Stage 4 Preview
A hard stage in tough weather, today’s stage features several tough climbs to reshape the overall classification.
Giro d’Italia Stage 3 Preview
An interesting stage where the day’s hardest climb masquerades as an intermediate sprint and it’s chased by tricky roads to the finish. Which sprinters can hang on in this hectic finale?
Giro d’Italia Stage 2 Preview
The Giro rolls out of Turin and crosses the Padan plains for a likely sprint finish in Novara.
Giro d’Italia Stage 1 Preview
A time trial and ever since the route was announced Filippo Ganna felt like the certain pick only his form’s not so reassuring of late. Today also brings some answers about the form of the GC contenders.
Giro d’Italia Preview
The Giro is back in its rightful spot, when spring turns into summer and the Italian countryside is bright green. This year promises an open contest with three grand tour winners in Egan Bernal, Simon Yates and Vincenzo Nibali taking to the start and many others hoping to seize the opportunity in the absence of the almost invincible Slovenians. For Nibali just starting is a victory following a race to recover from a broken wrist while Bernal is also overcoming injury, while Simon Yates returns for the third time since his 2018 implosion. Add on Remco Evenepoel, Pavel Sivakov, Jai Hindley, Romain Bardet, Mikel Landa, Hugh Carthy and others to a route full of surprises and we have a mouthwatering prospect.