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The Giro d’Italia, the Tour of Italy, is the first major tour in the annual cycle of international cycle races. In 2012, the Corsa Rosa (Pink race) takes place from the 5th to 29th May, starting with three days in Denmark. Watching the Giro in Italy is very similar to watching the Tour in France. abelard.org has several pages giving general advice on how to be a effective road-side spectator.
The online version of the Giro d’Italia brochure [40-page .pdf] gives information about the intended broadcasters for the 2012 Giro. Page 19 provides urls for internet broadcasters, while page 20 shows terrestrial broadcast regions on a world map. Notes on il Giro web site
the italian giro
This year, the Giro d’Italia starts in Denmark with an individual time trial and two flat stages. Unlike the Tour de France, which struggles to include a team time trial - there will not be any in the 2012 edition of the TDF - the 2012 Giro will start with a team time-trial, a display of speed, colour and technique. Being considerably longer than last year’s team trial - 32.2km as opposed to 19.3km for the 2011 Giro - long gaps could well appear as smaller teams find it difficult to maintain time gaps. Last time, the smaller teams lost from 45secs to 1 minute 13 secs in 19km. Mindful of last year’s criticisms that back-to-back demanding high mountain stages were interspersed with long, tiring transfers, this year gives the appearance of being much better designed with fewer arduous transfers and climbs being spaced by rest days and flat stages. Many renowned peaks will be visited, the last week being a steady itinerary of peaks except the relieving flat 18th stage. Stage 17 finished at the summit of Passo Giau, while stage 19 finishes at the peak of Alpe di Pampeago. The most gruelling climb comes on the 20th stage when the riders cross the Mortirolo at 1,718 m with its 22% sections and being unpaved for 3 km, before finishing on the summit of Stelvio at 2,757 m, the highest ever summit finish in a grand tour race. |
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the need for speedThe Italian need for speed is not only to be found in the Italian construction of fast cars such as Ferrari and Lamborghini The Giro organisers are calling the flat stages in this year’s Giro ‘fast stages’. Even though the prologue is only 8.7 km long, it will be a fast but tricky dash through the streets of Herning as the cyclists try to qualify for the Maglia Rosa (Pink Jersey). This will be followed by two long flat stages made for sprinters. The second stage includes roughly 50 km alongside the North Sea giving the prospect of strong cross winds that could aid or hinder depending on the prevailing wind’s direction. Mark Cavendish and Alessandro Petacchi will find good opportunities in these opening days, as well as in the second week when a couple of flat, fast stages are tucked in between more rolling medium mountain stages. Later on in the Giro, the flat stage finishing at Vedelago (stage18) will be an incentive that the sprinters won’t fly home after ten days.
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champions NEVER dieThe scenery in this year’s Giro poster commemorates two cyclists who are now always associated with the race. One is the four-time winner, Fausto Coppi. The other is Wouter Weylandt (Leopard Trek) who died after crashing during a descent on Stage 3 (Reggio Emilia > Rapallo) of the 2011 Giro. Fausto Coppi, a legendary Italian rider, known as il campionissimo, is remembered each year by naming the highest point of each year’s race as the Cima Coppi (Coppi summit). In 2011, the Cima Coppi was the Passo di Giau near Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites, location shown in the 2012 poster photograph. The 2012 Cima Coppi will be the 2757 metre Passo dello Stelvio at the end of the 20th stage. The words Coppi è sempre presente—Coppi is always here—are painted on the road tarmac, together with Weylandt’s initials and his race number, 108. The road painting ends with Campioni non muiono MAI—champions NEVER die. Wouter Weylandt has Stage 3 (Horsens > Horsens) the 2012 race dedicated to him. This reflects not only the stage number where he died last May, but also the 2010 stage where Weylandt took his second Grand Tour win, when the Giro visited Middelburg in the Netherlands. Weylandt had also won a stage of the 2008 Vuelta. His race number, 108, has been retired permanently from the Giro. this year’s stages21 stages are planned , with four high mountain stages including three with a summit finish, seven medium mountain stages including three with a summit finish, two individual time trials (stages 4 and 21), and a team time trial (stage 1). There will be two rest days. All other days are flat stages. The total distance ridden will be 3,476.4 km, kilometres, or roughly 2,160 miles.
the teamsLAM: LAMPRE – ISD, ITA 198 riders. winner of the 2011 giro
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