Category: Giro d’Italia
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Simon Yates ain’t falling for that one again | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2025 Giro d’Italia
You can’t tell the story of Simon Yates’ 2025 Giro d’Italia win without first telling the story of Stage 19 of the 2018 Giro. That particular story began on Stage 6. On that day, scaling Mount Etna, Yates rode away from all the other favourites and took the race lead. Three days later, on another…
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Isaac del Toro rides towards the Colle delle Finestre | a cursory acknowledgement that Stages 10-15 of the 2025 Giro d’Italia did in fact take place
I began the Week 1 recap by applying a big asterisk to everything that had happened. That asterisk – the severity of the final week – still remains and given the first major mountain stage will most likely have finished by the time you read this (blame the bank holiday), it seems unwise to devote…
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Isaac del Toro enjoys a dust-up | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2025 Giro d’Italia
The Giro d’Italia’s underway and someone’s leading it and that someone is Isaac del Toro. Will he still be leading it after they’ve spent 90% of the final week riding uphill? Probably not, but never say never. The first phase of this Giro is a peculiar thing when viewed as one part of the whole.…
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ITV4 are not showing the 2025 Giro d’Italia – here’s where you can see it
ITV4 will not be covering this year’s Giro d’Italia. In fact the grim news is that they won’t be covering cycling at all after this year – not even the Tour! TNT Sports has the rights to everything these days, you see – although they are at least making highlights available free-to-air. Live TV coverage…
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Tadej the Giro, tomorrow the Tour | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
And surprises came there none – not unless you count Tadej Pogacar working his way up to the biggest winning margin in a Grand Tour this century as a surprise (which I’m sensing by this point you probably don’t). Start-stop Tuesday’s Stage 16 was positively awash with tension, excitement and intrigue, with more plot twists…
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Tadej is hard, tomorrow will be worse | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
Well this is all getting a bit processional, isn’t it? Albeit a very rapid, phenomenally exhausting procession. The working week Tadej Pogacar hopped back onto his bike on Tuesday with a 2m40s advantage over second placed Daniel Martinez. When he knocked off on Friday afternoon, the gap was still 2m40s, so I’m not going to…
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Tadej, tomorrow and for the rest of the race? | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
No plot twists so far. And going by the form of Tadej Pogacar, we may very well never get one. The opening weekend This year’s Giro kicked off with a hilly stage and followed that up with the first summit finish. This meant that by the time we hit the working week, Tadej Pogacar already…
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Primoz Roglic finally gets round to winning | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
Primoz Roglic famously lost the Tour de France in a mountain time trial. He was first overall at the bottom but only second by the top. This time he did the reverse, albeit with a gut-churning pause halfway up when he dropped his chain and came to a complete standstill. That stationary moment must have…
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Riders v weather | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
A rapid descent on soaking roads with equally wet clothing in one degree temperatures anybody? No, I wouldn’t fancy it either. The case for the Giro to be considered the most gruelling of the three Grand Tours has a little to do with the terrain – which never truly eases – and a lot to…
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Geraint Thomas second-places himself into the lead | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
When you plot the route for a three-week bike race, the ideal scenario on the first rest day is for one rider to be faster in the time trials, another rider to be faster in the mountains, and whichever one’s behind to have more opportunities coming up in the rest of the race. The 2023…