Historic occasion in the Giro d’Italia

This Friday on the streets of budapest start 15th edition of the Giro d’Italia, the most enthusiastic three-stage grand cycling tour and perhaps the most prone to shocks, unexpected events and surprises, due to its own idiosyncrasies and the route itself. Cyclists who have traveled to capital of hungary They will enjoy and suffer from a complete and picturesque route of 21 stages, where there are days for all kinds of runners, but where rocky mountains prevail.

It’s one of the most open editions that a server personally remembers, not because of the route, but because of the list of entries, where three of the heavyweights don’t appear to command and firmly command the reins of platoon.

This is the case of the Slovenians primoz roglic -cured of ailments in one of his knees- and Tadej Pogacar -preferring the Tour de France and other races- o Egan Bernal, winner last year and feeling cyclist again after a fatal accident that almost cost him his life. There are also no runners of stature Caruso, Vingegaard, Gaudu, Van Aert, Quintana, Evenepoel or More.

Some absences leave free way for other colleagues, seeing how the path has been cleared for them to make history again or to actually do it for the first time. This is the case of Richard Carapaz, Simon Yates, Miguel Ángel López, Romain Bardet, Pello Bilbao or Mikel Landa, not to mention the ‘outsiders’ who always appear on a Grand Tour, especially in the Giro, fertile ground for new and great discoveries.

For this it is necessary that luck is on the side, key to a passionate race like Giro, but the absence of the aforementioned number 1 should be taken advantage of by other runners, who will have the same demand, but not the highest rivalry. that they will have if in ‘Pink Corsa’ is Pogacar, Roglic, Van Aert and company.