"It will be super close tomorrow. The 2023 Giro dItalia route was officially unveiled in Milan in October and it is simply eye-watering. 165 RIES Michel (Lux) Eight men are allowed in each squad, with a mix of climbers, sprinters, general classification hopefuls and domestiques. 124 HUYS Laurens (Bel) Laurens De Plus (Bel/Ineos Grenadiers) +7mins 30secs, Her creators, Ruth and Elliot Handler, reveal it all, A chilling crime thriller from the makers of Inside Man and Sherlock coming soon to BBC iPlayer, Michael Mosley shares some sage advice on how to stay energised, This true-crime podcast investigates the story of a baffling murder in a remote Welsh farmhouse. Valerio Conti, formerly of UAE Team Emirates, a veteran of seven Giros and 2016 Vuelta a Espaa stage winner, is set to be team leader and looks the man most likely to get a result. Andreas Leknessund (Nor/DSM) +6mins 08secs, 10. 94 MAGLI Filippo (Ita) They also have Austrian climber Felix Gall, who impressed at Tour of the Alps but is making only his second Grand Tour appearance. Einer Rubio (Col/Movistar) +2mins 26secs, 1. Dan Beck. Now he's turned his attention to the Giro and heads up a powerful Bahrain squad featuring the veteran Caruso as well as 2022 Giro stage winner and Lige-Bastogne-Lige podium finisher Santiago Buitrago. The 38-year-old was teed up by his team mates as well as fellow Briton Thomas as he claimed his first win of the season. Both Evenepoel and Roglic are seeking their first general classification victory in the Giro dItalia. Make sure you make the most of your warm-up with this 20-minute guide. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Gaviria, who moved on from UAE Team Emirates over the winter, has already taken his first win in his new dark blue colours, beating Peter Sagan and Filippo Ganna on an uphill sprint at the Vuelta a San Juan. British climber Thomas Gloag was called up to make his Grand Tour debut just months after turning pro. Roglic, 33, seized the pink jersey with a powerful performance in Saturday's penultimate stage and finished Sunday's ceremonial 126-km flat route unscathed as Mark Cavendish won the stage in his final appearance at the Giro. Details of who will accompany him at the Giro are yet to be revealed, but fellow veteran Simon Clarke could return to the race after three years away to complete the set of Grand Tour stage wins. BA1 1UA. 103 KONOVALOVAS Ignatas (Lit) Primoz Roglic won the 106th edition of the Giro dItalia. Jumbo Visma-rider Roglic finished 14 seconds ahead of Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) and one minute, 15 seconds before Joao Almeida of UAE Team Emirates in the overall standings to add a first Giro title to his three Vuelta triumphs from 2019-21. Climber Jonathan Lastra rounds out the team along with Franois Bidard, Thomas Champion, Rmy Rochas, Alexandre Delettre, and Hugo Toumire, though it's hard to imagine the men in red having a big impact on the race. Road, track, BMX, mountain and many more - there are so many ways and reasons to start cycling. WebThe 106th Giro dItalia will begin on Saturday 6 May 2023 with a 18.4km time trial from Costa dei Trabocchi to Ortona on the Adriatic coastline midway down the boot of Italy. Astana signed Cees Bol to lead out Cavendish, though the Dutchman isn't racing the Giro and has only raced the UAE Tour alongside the sprinter. Giro d'Italia 2021 stage 21 results: Senago to Milan (30.3km ITT) 1. The other British riders who will be at the Corsa Rosa are Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost), Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ), Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), Charlie Quarterman (Corratec) and Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech). Last year, their riders took part in 13 breaks throughout the race, while new addition Mattia Bais racked up 617km across five breakaways to win the breakaway prize for Androni last year. Karel Vacek, Nicolas Dalla Valle, Stefano Gandin, Alessandro Iacchi, and Veljko Stojni round out the selection. The tests in Ortona and, eight days later in Cesena, give him two tilts at breaking that duck, though he'll have to beat a formidable lineup of foes including Evenepoel, Rogli, Foss, Thomas, and Ganna to do so. 132 BERWICK Sebastian (Aus) Do you want to keep up to date on the world of the Giro dItalia and of the other races by RCS Sport? Only a few teams will harbour realistic hopes of overall glory, the likes of Soudal-QuickStep, Jumbo-Visma, and Ineos Grenadiers among them. Look out for him in the high-mountain breaks. 2023-05-11T09:52:06.099Z. It's something a new dawn for the GC-focused team first Matteo Jorgenson and Oier Lakzano represent them at the pointy end of the cobbled Classics, now they head to a Grand Tour with a sprinter leading the squad. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) is the new Maglia Rosa. Remco Evenepoel Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro dItalia, Stage 20: Tarvisio- Monte Lussari, 18.6km MTT. DISCLAIMER: This site and the products offered are for entertainment purposes only, and there is no gambling offered on this site. Lennard Kamna (Ger/Bora-Hansgrohe) +5mins 54secs, 9. A return to a Grand Tour podium isn't impossible but taking aim at a top five might be more realistic given the flat time trial kilometres in the race. Belgian youngsters Laurenz Rex, Arne Marit, and Laurens Huys will likely be given free reign to infiltrate breakaways and seek stage wins, with Sven Erik Bystrm sure to have similar freedoms on a very equal and egalitarian squad. Rogli was always going to ride the Giro, illness and injury permitting, and is one of two favourites, alongside Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), but his team has undoubtedly been weakened with the loss of key domestiques. Along with Eolo-Kometa and Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizan, Team Corratec-Selle Italia are the only other Italian second-division squad left and so take up the third of four wildcard spots for the race. Another French team with eyes tilted towards their home race in July rather than the Italian Grand Tour, Cofidis nonetheless send a couple of notable names to the Giro d'Italia. Pinot had the consolation of retaking the lead in the king of the mountains classification. The British champion returns to the race with his team aching for glory and with, realistically, few places to seek it apart from the sprint stages. That's a bucket list sprint, to be able to win outside the Colosseum. Tour of Britain - 3 September - 10 September. Magnus Cort (Den/EF Education-EasyPost) +1mins 46secs, 4. Breakaway specialist Alessandro De Marchi will be aiming for a first career stage win, while Campbell Stewart is the team's only debutant. All roads lead to the Eternal City Rome during the month of May, as the INEOS Grenadiers confirm their line-up for the Giro dItalia. 116 SIVAKOV Pavel (Fra) Don't ask how that is related to cycling. Following Androni Giocattoli's sponsor troubles and subsequent relocation to the Colombian Continental ranks, veteran team boss and Giro staple Gianni Savio will be missing from the race for the first time since 2017. 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Lopez was on 2:34 at this point in the Giro 2018 and ended on the podium. 12 BAUDIN Alex (Fra) Two years ago, Giulio Ciccone was on course for a career-best Giro d'Italia result and a possible final-week podium battle before a multi-rider crash on stage 17 to Sega di Ala saw him injured and out of the race painfully late. There look to be eight possible sprint stages on the route this year, though some are hillier than others and the break will inevitably claim a couple, meaning there are plenty of chances to claim his first win in his new colours. Results | Live report | Preview. This is TGH's best grand tour form since he won the Giro and Thomas is looking good. 2 BALLERINI Davide (Ita) 7 VAN WILDER Ilan (Bel) Thibaut Pinot (Groupama FDJ) and Warren Barguil (Team Arka Samsic) finished second and third respectively. 83 BAIS Mattia (Ita) Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. Mark Cavendish wins final stage of Giro dItalia as Roglic takes overall victory | Giro d'Italia | The Guardian. Photograph: Luca Bettini/AFP via Getty Images Bauke Mollema, the wily veteran who can count Il Lombardia among his palmars, is down to start and will be hunting stages. Bath Rudy Molard is the road captain, while Fabien Lienhard, Lars van den Berg, Bruno Armirail, and neo-pro Reuben Thompson also ride. Geoghegan Hart won the Giro in 2020 and, after a difficult two years, was coming back into the form of his life. He'll miss new Jumbo signing Wilco Kelderman for the race, the Dutchman unfit after a crash at Tirreno and replaced by the squad's premier climbing lieutenant Sepp Kuss. Jos van Emden and Rohan Dennis are their substitutes.". 22-year-old Healy has flown this spring and especially in the Ardennes, with second at Amstel Gold Race and fourth at Lige-Bastogne-Lige. 67 ROCHAS Rmy (Fra) The sole Kazakhstani representative is Vadim Pronskiy. That wasn't the end of Jumbo-Visma's preparation woes, though. Reactions: Bolder Carols In two return visits to the race, he has yet to best that initial effort, finishing sixth in 2021 and then leaving last year's race in the midst of a podium battle four days from the end with COVID-19. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. BA1 1UA. Look out for much more of that, from Bais and his younger brother Davide, as well as the likes of Mirco Maestri and Giro di Sicilia podium finisher Vincenzo Albanese. 53 BENEDETTI Cesare (Pol) And Primoz Roglic cut Thomas' overall advantage in the final few metres. Einer Rubio (Movistar) prevailed in stage 13 of the Tour of Italy 2023, after winning the shortened 74-kilometre section, which brought together Le Chble and Crans-Montana. It leaves the GC race finely balanced going into Saturday's decisive mountain time trial - an 18.6km run between Tarvisio and the top of Monte Lussari - which packs most of its 1,050 metres of climbing and a ramp up of almost 19% in the second half of the route. 135 GEE Derek (Can) Bath Race history Start list Primoz Roglic, overall winner of the 2023 Giro d'Italia (Image credit: Getty) Giro d'Italia: the complete inside guide Giro d'Italia: Primoz Roglic Or use data from your social media profiles. image: Cor VosThe Giro d'Italia started on Friday 6 May in Abruzzo with 176 contestants and 51 of them did not reachg the finish line in Rome. Michael Steele // Getty Images. 57 KONRAD Patrick (Aut) "My boys did incredible. Davide Ballerini is on hand to mix it up in the bunch sprints, meanwhile. But the problem is, I don't think he can beat Remco that way. 63 CHAMPION Thomas *. Portuguese rider Joo Almeida made his name at the Giro d'Italia, racing to fourth overall at the pandemic-delayed edition in 2020 at the end of his neo-pro season. 192 DE MARCHI Alessandro (Ita) Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. The squad is rounded out by Giovanni Aleotti, Cesare Benedetti, Nico Denz, and Anton Palzer. It will end in the nations capital on Sunday 28 May after having covered a distance of 3,448.6km which includes a total of 51,300 metres of climbing. Fausto Masnada is a surprise omission from the squad, the Italian climber having trained alongside Evenepoel and the core Giro squad on Teide in recent months. It's not the strongest team at the race, but AG2R have had success at the Giro before, so they can't be written off. Ciccone had been flying this spring with stage wins at the Volta a Valenciana and Volta a Catalunya in addition to fifth at Tirreno-Adriatico and La Flche Wallonne. There was a problem. Einer Rubio, the farmer and master builder who won the Giro dItalia. Age: 28. It took three months for Domenico Pozzovivo to find a team for the 2023 season, a ridiculous situation given that the 30-year-old recorded top 10s at the Giro d'Italia and Tour de Suisse last season. But Roglic, cheered on by thousands of fans from across the border to Slovenia, regrouped to take a 14-second overall advantage and made no mistake in the final stage, cruising through the Italian capital to expand his Grand Tour portfolio. 'Help a brother out!'. Evenepoel, Roglic and a race of two halves - Giro dItalia 2023 Preview. e Iscrizione al Registro delle Imprese di Milano n.12086540155r.e.a. 107 STEWART Jake (GBr) 66 LASTRA Jonathan. Hello and welcome to our live coverage Andrea Pasqualon and Jonathan Milan are on board for the sprints, while Jasha Stterlin and Edoardo Zambanini will take on domestique roles. How the Belgian won the stage, took the pink jersey, and put time into his GC rivals. The Belgian's talent has meant a recalibration of the Soudal-QuickStep team in recent seasons, stocking up on climbers to support the 23-year-old star at the Grand Tours, races where sprints and stage hunting had long been the order of the day. All rights reserved. Primoz Roglic is close second, with the 2023 Giro dItalia odds of +150. Experienced lead-out and fellow new signing Ramon Sinkeldam is set to pilot Groves through the hectic bunch sprints along with Kristian Sbaragli, while Oldani and 2021 stage runner-up Oscar Riesebeek are also in the lineup. Apr 25, 2023. 166 RIOU Alan (Fra) 64 CIMOLAI Davide (DNS #9) 65 DELETTRE Alexandre. Time won/lost; 1: 1-118: GC: 78 CORT Magnus (Den), 81 ALBANESE Vincenzo (Ita) #11. Ten Pound Poms starring Michelle Keegan and Warren Brown, Michael Mosley chews over the surprising benefits of these nutrient powerhouses. Others, such as Italian ProTeams Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizan, Eolo-Kometa, and Corratec-Selle Italia will be over the moon with a stage win or content with the breakaway prize. Daniel Ostanek is production editor at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor and later being hired as staff writer. 77 BETTIOL Alberto (Ita) Classics season is over and done with for another year and with the conclusion of the spring comes a return to Grand Tour racing at the 2023 Giro d'Italia. 202 GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel (Eri) 48 ZAMBANINI Edoardo (Ita), 51 VLASOV Aleksandr (Rus) Filippo Ganna (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers, in 33-48 2. Trek will look to stage wins from former world champion Mads Pedersen in Ciccone's absence.