* Giro d'Italia 2018 *

The 2018 Giro d'Italia will be the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of the cycling Grand Tour races. For the first time ever, a Grand Tour will start outside of Europe, and the 13th time that Giro d’Italia starts outside of Italy. The Giro will start in Jerusalem on 4 May with a 9.7 km (6 mi) individual time trial, followed by two additional stages in Israel. After a rest day, there will be 18 further stages in Italy to reach the finish in Rome on 27 May.

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* Route and stages *

Summary of the route and all stages:

- 3,562.9 km total route

- 169.7 km each day average

- 2 individual time trials

- 7 stages for sprinters

- 6 medium difficulty stages

- 6 high difficulty stages






* Favorites *

These are the favorites to win the Giro d’Italia 2018, and the outsiders:

***** Chris Froome, Tom Dumoulin, Simon Yates, Thibaut Pinot

**** Fabio Aru, Michael Woods, Miguel Ángel López, Esteban Chaves
*** George Bennett, Sergio Henao, Domenico Pozzovivo
** David de la Cruz, Davide Formolo, Sam Oomen
* Louis Meintjes, Rohan Dennis, Wout Poels


* Tom Dumoulin *

The most recent winner of the Giro is Tom Dumoulin (NED).




* Websites *

- Official website: http://www.giroditalia.it/eng/

- Live streams: https://www.procyclinglive.com/video/

- Giro info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_d%27Italia

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Pozzo has a plan,
His time trial was really great ;)

i'm missing o'connor , carapaz and betancur on the favourites list with one star :)

The one's in the text are a few of the 1 *. List should not be too long.

Yesterday a nice win for Team LottoNL-Jumbo :)

Today the first serious climb and finish uphill, the Etna.

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Today, stage 8

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Tomorrow, stage 9

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Yates, Pinot or Dumoulin gonna win this , or Froome needs a miracle ;)

Yates et Froome.. ah ah
English better than specialist in mountain, the joke.
Poels which exploded everyone in moutain and the other 2 not tired at all who walks and Poels that ends right behind Pinot.. LOL
And Dumoulin.. better than Carapaz, Pinot, Aru in high mountains .. ok ^^

English and Dutch don't drink only water..


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Quintana : 41.35min for the clim the last time.
Froome : 39.58min today

The best Simoni : 39.03 min.

Yates : positif in 2016
Froome : positif in 2017
Simoni : positif also..

Poels didn't do much work till now, this is what his job is for Froome.


This is why cyclists can't win all 3 Grand Tours (Giro, Tour and Vulta), and most can't be good in 2 Grand Tours.

And why can't Dumoulin be better as Carapaz, Pinot, Aru?? He trains for this whole season, he is just as skinny as those other guys. Dumoulin has more power in his body as those little guys, you can see the difference with time trails.

Hope you will be this critical when 2 French dudes are 1 and 2 in the Tour, which is impossible.

or Froome needs a miracle ;)


Yeh, Froome and his miracles ;)

I'm not a fan to Pinot.. ( rather Nibali, Sagan, Alaphilippe)
if terminated 2 and 3 it's because the others, Froome Contador etc, give up the tour..

Poels was forced to slow down otherwise he was letting everyone down.. if after he stop ok, but no.. finish after Pinot.
Dumoulin are more power yes, but the high moutain is not good for him..look Rod Dennis.. The new Rasmussen ;)
Yates world champion on track and win in moutain.. stop ( and i like her brother Adam ^^ )
Froome is horrible during this Giro, and today, with big stage, he flies away :D

French are not better.. Jalabert, Fignon etc are doping, and your country is well known for cheating by doping .. not so patriotic ;)
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Everyone was using doping at some time. I'm pretty sure Dumoulin does everything by the rules. Has nothing to do with patriotic.