Cycling: our preview of the Corsa Rosa. In October the official presentation In sight the noble climbs and the great mountains such as the Colle delle Finestre or the Fauniera
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Tomorrow the World Championship will be held in Flanders in front of a million people, the autumn classics of the Italian calendar that lead to the Giro di Lombardia are missing, yet the die now seems to have been cast for what will be the Giro d’Italia 2022.
The pink race will be unveiled right after the Giro di Lombardia, but the question marks on the map are less and less. With great mountains such as Colle delle Finestre or Fauniera in Piedmont and the grand finale in the East.
After the false departure from Hungary in the 2020 edition, redesigned due to Covid with departure from Sicily without the Magyar stages, if the virus is definitively left behind, the 2022 edition will start from May 7 with the time trial of not even ten kilometers from Heroes’ Square, a UNESCO heritage site, to the citadel of Budapest and then with the two stops in Gyor and Nagy Kanizsa. The order should be the same, so the caravan will move to Sicily (Etna and Taormina obligatory stops) to begin the ascent to the north. Attention to the return of the Blochaus (Teutonic name but in Abruzzo, it is the Maielletta) and probable time trial in Umbria (Spoleto?) Then three hamlets in Emilia Romagna (Reggio Emilia, city of the tricolor on pole) and twinning with Tuscany thanks to the Apennines . Then the crossroads: East or West? The grand finale will be in the Dolomites, as happened in the 2019 edition, the one won in Verona by Richard Carapaz, or in the Piedmont and Lombardy mountains, as happened in those “tablets” in just seven months due to the pandemic of October 2020 and last May. ?
East, Dolomites, remake with final time trial of the arrival three years ago at the Verona Arena. The president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, is pushing to get back the race most loved by Italians. Where is it? The derbissimo nobile between Cortina, theater in May of the stage shortened by snow, and Tre Cime di Lavaredo, where the last time in 2013 Vincenzo Nibali instead dominated under the snow, could be won by surprise by the third wheel: Belluno, the Nevegal, and its basin which pays homage to a singer of the Giro, Dino Buzzati, half a century after his death. The day before another leap in history because the stage in Friuli will cross over into Slovenia – the new cycling mecca – crossing the very mountains that on 24 October 2017 were the scene of the Caporetto route.
And the Giro a Ovest? There is, indeed if there is, and is announced with two heavy loads: the Colle delle Finestre, with those 8 km of dirt roads from the Susa valley and the Fauniera in the Cuneo area of “pantaniana” memory. The three-day Piedmont event that could include a long-awaited departure from the Cavour Memorial in Santena, but not a stop in Turin, already the scene of the binge of the great 2021 departure. Speaking of binges. Do you remember that of Liguria in 2015? Three days ago the Liguria Regional Council reiterated its desire to get the Giro back, as did the Aosta Valley. All that remains for RCS is to fill in the last boxes and then start the most important thing: the casting of the riders. So as to close the gap with the Tour. Because the nobility of climbs and routes is not enough.
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