Giro D'Italia 2021 Will Favour The Climbers
Muhammad Irfan Published February 25, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Paris, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Feb, 2021 ) :This year's Giro d'Italia begins in Turin on May 8 and will take in some signature highlights including Monte Zoncolan in the Alps, the Dolomites and the inceasingly popular 'Strade Bianche', organisers revealed on Wednesday.
The 104th edition honours the 160th anniversary of Italy's unification, and ends in Milan on May 30, returning to its traditional time-slot after the 2020 edition took place in October.
The course is light on time trials -- two individual TTs on the first and last days at a total of 38.5 kilometres -- which will please the elite climbers such as the Colombian Egan Bernal and Frenchmen Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet, with the mountains looming large in the second half of the event.
The Giro has six mountain finishes and seven other hilly stages, and was presented on live television for the first time.
Bernal, Bardet and Pinot had already earmarked the Giro in favour of the 2021 Tour de France, which is heavy on time-trials. Conversely, 2020 Giro champion Tao Geoghegan Hart will miss this year's race and make his Tour debut.
The first week of the 3450km, 21-day Giro is devoted to the sprint south to the Puglia coast on the heel of Italy but loops back towards the heart of Umbria without hitting the deep south that hosted a series of stages last year.
After the first rest comes a big test with 35 kilometres of Tuscan 'Strade Bianche' -- unpaved roads -- during the last 70 kilometres to Montalcino, one of the great wine sites of the peninsula.
The riders will need to take on Zoncolan, one of the hardest climbs in Europe, at the end of the second week, two days before the queen stage of the Dolomites, scheduled for May 24.
A trio of great historic passes -- Fedaia, Pordoi, Giau -- will begin that stage leading to Cortina d'Ampezzo, one of the host resorts for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The third week takes the riders back to the north of the country and includes a testing sidestep into Switzerland to climb the Passo di San Bernardino and the Splugenpass.
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