All the keys to the Giro d’Italia 2023: stages and favourites

They say that love must never stop cultivating, that for a love relationship to maintain its initial flame, passion must be cultivated daily and focused on detail, because in this edition of Giro, the 106th, the Corsa Pink, the first big three-week cycle race of the year, it will be more’endless love’ never. Of the 22 teams that will start tomorrow at fishing (18 world tour and four Pro Team guests: Aeolus, Bardiani, Isarel and Corratec) awaits them a difficult three-week review in which the word transfer will not appear on the roadmap for almost any day.

The 21 stages of the Giro offer a total of almost 3,500 kilometers and more than 51,000 meters of accumulated elevation gain. A true pink mountain that offers a spectacular and challenging course, with up to three time trial stages, two individual time trials and a decisive time trial on the penultimate day and six finishes in top of the mountain. It is true that the competitive proposition for the most passionate and unpredictable cycling grand tour of all does not contemplate climbing colossi like Mortirolo, Stelvio or Zoncolan, but the beauty and toughness of those who climb the Crans Montana, Lavaredo or the unprecedented Mount Lussari They will not leave anyone indifferent. Neither runners nor fans.

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This Giro has made an important commitment in one of the disciplines where the biggest time differences can be obtained, with up to three time trial stages totaling 70 kilometers. The opening day is true, 20 km to Costa dei Trabocchi, on the Adriatic SeaIt can be said that it is a touchdown, but the 39 km of the ninth round, designed for specialists in the fight against the clock; and the difficult time trial on the penultimate day seems to be the key to the outcome of a race that continues to focus on long mileage, with up to seven stages of more than 200 kilometers. A sporting proposition where two of the cyclists will not be on everyone’s lips and put the entire peloton on the line one by one in the blink of an eye, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar and the daneby Jonas Vingegaard. Both returned to bet on the Tour de France, its hegemony in cycling and its departure from Bilbao It conditioned the presence of cyclists in Italy and especially the Spanish (7 for the 11 present in 2022), with options for a podium that he eventually stepped on. landa (3rd), but without any Spanish victory.

A priori, then the road and chance put everything in their place, the two top favorites to embrace the glory in Rome are the Belgian Remco Evenepoel and the slovenian Roglic is a cousin. The two have the first season to frame and prepared the attack on the Giro carefully. For the young Belgian cannibal, winner of La Vuelta 2022, the Giro is quite a challenge, after his abandonment in 2021. The demand of the mountains may choke him a little, but in the test of time he can smooth out all the rough edges.

And for ‘Rogla’, 3rd in Italy in 2019, the Giro is a challenge. After seeing how the Tour did not respond to his calls, the ‘Vuelta man’, triple winner of the Spanish round, 2019, 2020 and 2021, is looking for his second ‘big one’ and trusts that luck will be with him and he is not submerged in some fall that forces him to turn away. Fasten your seatbelts, the Giro promises intense emotions.