Twenty-four hours after the presentation of the 2026 Giro d’Italia route, riders, teams and the tifosi are still studying the 21 stages, trying to work out the key stages, where the race will be won and who will pull on the final maglia rosa in Rome on May 31.
The 2025 Giro route had a simple but logical narrative, with Strade Bianche gravel roads and a 28km time trial mid-race, some testing mountain stages and then the grand finale over the Colle delle Finestre on stage 20.
‘Modern’ or mediocre?
Outgoing Giro d’Italia race director Mauro Vegni described the 2026 route as modern, justifying both the long 246km stage to Blockhaus and the shorter 133km mountain stage to…
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