Cycling: Giro d'Italia

The Giro d'Italia simply means the "Tour of Italy", this prestigious elite professional cycle racing competition dates back to 1909 with the sole aim of boosting the La Gazzetta sports newspaper. This event has gone on to be hosted annually. The Giro d'Italia is a 3 weeks sporting event, in which participants will compete through 21 stages to…

Sestola owes its place on the sporting map to Alberto Tomba, who began his glorious downhill skiing career on its slopes. Thanks to his natural flamboyance as much as his technical brilliance, 'Tomba la Bomba' bestrode the world of alpine skiing in the 1980s and 1990s. On Tuesday's stage 4 at the Giro d'Italia, the day's main test was uphill rather…

Much has been made of the revival of the'do everything' rider, with stars such as Tadej Pogačar, Wout van Aert, and Julian Alaphilippe dispensing with the age of strict specialisation and triumphing in sprints, time trials, mountains, hills, cobbles - you name it. At the very top level, the days of the best riders being pigeonholed into one narrow…

Cycling 04:42:06 Redemption for Yates, after what has been a disappointing Giro by his original expectations. Jai Hindley beats Richard Carapaz to second, claiming a few precious seconds on his rival who comes home to become the new maglia rosa. What a day we've had. Cycling Cavendish joins Astana Qazaqstan for 2023 season 7 HOURS AGO Vincenzo…

While the first stage in no way dictates what will happen over the next three weeks, it can set a tone. Is there a sprinter strong enough climbing that he can take daily honors? Could a GC candidate put his foot down and make clear who the favorite is? Alternatively, a breakaway isn't impossible with racers keyed up early on, though the course…

Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when you join Outside+ . Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux and its motley crew of dark horses, war horses, and breakout stars had wounds to lick while it poured its podium prosecco Tuesday. The underdog rabble…

We're nine stages into this year's Giro d'Italia and, in Jai Hindley, Australia has a rider within striking distance of the overall race lead. Hindley currently sits in fifth place, 20 seconds behind overall leader Juan Pedro López Pérez. However, if you exclude Pérez, who is unlikely to stick with the climbers as the Giro progresses, Hindley is in…

There's a few photos circulating on the internet, published in mid-October, that depict a collection of the world's best bike riders laughing, smiling and having a jolly good old time on a mountain in the Alps. All the photos are very heart-warming, definitely very cute, and above all great #content. The subjects were Bora-Hansgrohe's riders, the…

Veteran Mark Cavendish won stage three of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday after launching a long sprint for the line at the end of a flat 122 mile run to Lake Balaton in Hungary. Dutch ace Mathieu van der Poel retained the overall leader's pink jersey as Quick-Step's Cavendish easily outpaced FDJ's Arnaud Demare with Team UAE's Fernando Gaviria coming…

The first Grand Tour of 2022 gets underway on Friday May 6 with the Giro d'Italia, and there are a number of riders expected to battle it out for overall victory over the three-week stage race. Starting in Budapest, Hungary, for the Grande Partenza, the Giro peloton will spend three days in the central European country before heading to Sicily and…

As his fifth career Giro d'Italia start looms, Simon Yates (BikeExchange-Jayco) is hoping that his first few months of the 2022 season have prepared him to improve on his strong podium performance at the Giro last season. That objective could require striking a delicate balance. On the one hand, the Giro will not cater to those riders hoping to…

Almost no one expected Tobias Foss to win the World Championships' time-trial, but huge upsets in sports sometimes happen - particularly after long travel to the other side of the world. Sunday was the performance of Foss' career delivering an evenly paced ride with a huge final sector to shatter Stefan Küng's rainbow dreams. Results powered…

Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when you join Outside+ . Tobias Foss was at the edge of most people's TT radars Sunday morning. That may change now the Norwegian has a rainbow jersey on his back. Foss stunned an all-star cast of talent Sunday…

KAPOSVAR, Hungary, May 8 (Reuters) - Mark Cavendish marked his return to the Giro d'Italia with a commanding sprint on stage three of the Grand Tour race, a 201km-ride from Kaposvar to Balatonfured, on Sunday as Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel retained the overall lead. Cavendish and his QuickStep-AlphaVinyl team mates timed their move to…

BikeExchange's Simon Yates, having fallen out of the race for the Giro d'Italia, attacked with abandon on the Colle della Maddalena to get clear of a group of overall favorites to take the punchy, action-packed 14th stage in Torino, 15 seconds ahead of the remaining elites. Which is a great moment for him, but it would be fairer to say that INEOS'…

Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when you join Outside+ . TREVISO, Italy (VN) - Logic suggests that four riders who are being chasing by 150 riders are always going to get caught, but thanks to the effects of terrain, the elements and canny…