(Rome) The Tour of Italy will reconnect with Rome in 2023, five years after its last eventful passage through the “potholes” of the capital, at the end of an edition scheduled from May 6 to 28 which will good share for climbers, but also for stopwatch specialists.
The 21 steps of this 106e Giro, which will set off from Abruzzo on May 6 in a time trial, will like this year give pride of place to mountain stages: seven in total, with as many summit finishes, for an overall positive elevation of 51 300 meters, according to the route unveiled Monday by the organizers.
Time trial experts will not be outdone with three stages for them: the first of 18.4 kilometers in Abruzzo, with a small bump in the final; the 9e offering 33.6 km entirely flat in Emilia-Romagna; and finally the 20eon the eve of the finish, a veritable mini-mountain stage of 18.6 km leading to Monte Lussari with 7.5 km of ascent at an average 12%.
That is a total of more than 70 km (70.6 km) of individual time trial, a first for ten years (75.4 km in 2013). This choice could be likely to attract the Belgian prodigy Remco Evenepoel, one of the hoped-for stars of the next Giro.
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After leaving Budapest in 2022 and having criss-crossed Hungary for three days, the battle for the pink jersey will be fought almost entirely next year on Italian roads. The only foray abroad is planned for the 13e stage, with an arrival in Switzerland, in Crans Montana.
Challenging third week
For the second consecutive year, the Giro will not end in Milan, the busiest final city in the history of the Giro d’Italia. This year, Verona hosted the final stage with the overall victory of Australian Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe). Next year it will end in Rome, at the Imperial Forums.
This is only the fifth time that the Eternal City will host the final stage of the more than century-old race. It will be the 49e stage finish on the banks of the Tiber.
The last passage of the Giro in the capital, at the end of the 2018 edition, left mixed memories for the peloton, despite the majestic decor. The stage had indeed been truncated, the fault of the imperfect pavements and the dreaded “potholes” of the Roman streets.
The riders, citing safety reasons, had obtained that the times were neutralized about 80 kilometers from the finish. The favourites, including Briton Chris Froome crowned that year, got up and left the teams of sprinters interested in stage victory to explain themselves in a kind of criterium.
In the mountains, where the battle for the pink jersey will be decided well before the Roman cobblestones, four major events are announced, with stages approaching or exceeding 5,000 meters of elevation gain: the Gran Sasso massif (2,135 m) in the Apennines (7e stage), in Crans Montana (13e stage) – with the passage through the Great Saint-Bernard pass (2469 m), the highest point of this edition –, in Monte Bondone (16e stage) and finally the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (2304 m) in the Dolomites (19e stage).
The third week, after the second and last day of rest set for Monday, May 22, promises to be particularly demanding for all those who dream of wearing the laurel wreath at the foot of the Colosseum on May 28.
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