Category: Giro d’Italia

AG2R Citroen – E- They got into some breakaways and Andrea Vendrame got some top-10s. Mickael Cherel was their best placed rider in 23rd overall. Terrible performance but not quite an F for a team whose main goal of the season is not the Giro. Alpecin Fenix – A Three stage wins plus three days…

Stage 20 Results General Classification after Stage 20 Alessandro Covi (UAE Team Emirates) won stage 20 and Jai Hindley (Bora Hansgrohe) won the Giro. Sadly, there’s really not much to say about the queen stage of the Giro. It was won from a breakaway, like many others. Covi certainly deserves all the praise in the…

General Classification before Stage 20 I don’t know whether you want to consider the Giro exciting because we’re going into the final day with 1m5s between first and third or a disappointment because, quite frankly, nothing happened so far. The riders make the race and a trio of Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers), Jay Hindley (Bora…

Stage 18 Results General Classification after Stage 18 A perfect storm of fatigue in the peloton, coupled with fairly remarkable rouleurs in front allowed the breakaway to take for themselves what should have been the sprinters’ last chance for a stage victory. Dries de Bondt (Alpecin Fenix), Edoardo Affini (Jumbo Visma), Magnus Cort (EF Education…

Stage 17 Results General Classification after Stage 17 Santiago Buitrago, a young Colombian rider that interestingly wasn’t brought to Europe by Gianni Savio and Androni. His career as a pro rider has been done solely under Bahrain and yesterday he rewarded the Bahraini team with his first ever Grand Tour win, and Bahrain’s own first…

Stage 16 Results General Classification after Stage 16 The first day in the mountains of the decisive third week of the 2022 Giro gave us a promising, albeit not very impactful outcome. Jan Hirt, of Intermarche Wanty Gobert won the second stage for the Belgian team in this year’s edition of the Italian Grand Tour…

The fireworks started on stage 14 and they’ll likely only leave the Giro at its end in Verona, next Sunday. Looking at the profiles one would point to stage 15, and the summit finish at Cogne as the stage to watch in terms of the general classification (GC). Well, stage 14 was a testament to…

Stage 12 Results General Classification after Stage 12 Stefano Oldani (Alpecin Fenix) made it two in a row for Italy yesterday. After Alberto Dainese won the first stage for the home country on stage 11, Oldani repeated for Italy in what was his first professional victory. Alpecin seems to have learned from stage 8, when…