What the heck happened Saturday on the Colle dell Finestre? Bobby J unpicks the historic raid and shocking standoff that decided the Giro d'Italia.
Here are the stats that make some sense of a crazy, chaotic Giro d'Italia.
Giro week three primer: Historically hard final week puts pink jersey in peril as Del Toro takes on climbing veterans across 20,000 meters of mountain ascent.
Tour de Hoody: This Giro won’t give us the fireworks-a-minute Pogi Show we’ve grown accustomed to, but it will deliver tension, suspense, tactics, a hard-fought race, and maybe even a surprise winner.
'This is not a joke. It’s not a rumor. It’s for real.' Reports suggest the Giro will go Down Under in 2027, and race officials aren't denying it.
Tour de Hoody: How the Giro d'Italia could be the most exciting race of the season without Tadej Pogačar to obliterate the field.
'It can be interesting for the race without such a dominant rider': GC contenders forecast a wild and wide-open race in absence of peloton pulverizer Pogačar.
Roglič rides into Giro d'Italia with Pogačar as a reference and the pressure to paper over Bora-Bull's miserable spring: ‘He can totally turn around our season.’
Who gets the Giro d'Italia gold stars? We pick the pink jersey contenders for what could be the most wide-open grand tour of the year.
Forget Tadej Pogačar and his pink jersey rout. The race for his GC leftovers is tightly coiled and loaded with jeopardy.
Breaking down how the hardest day of the 2024 Giro d'Italia was won.
Pogačar is on another planet, but there's plenty to be pumped for in the Giro's final week. Will Thomas risk it all to upturn the race?
Breaking down how what should have been a routine sprint stage descended into chaos, and highlighted how we could be in for an incredibly fun three weeks of non-stop all-out racing.
Can you hold 9w/kg for 3 minutes? We dive into the power numbers of Jhonatan Narnaez and Tadej Pogačar at the Giro d’Italia.
Thomas and Martínez lead the chase behind the Slovenian savage, but the Welshman's canny could be crucial in the attrition of the 'corsa rosa.'
The Giro-Tour double is rare. But if there’s one thing Pogačar has proven, it’s that he can do anything in cycling.
From a deliciously tempting 'grande partenza' to a decisive double shot of Monte Grappa, these are the king-maker stages of the Giro d'Italia.
Analysis: A relatively thin GC start list could tempt Pogačar and Co. to drop their guard, and that would be a mistake UAE cannot afford.
VeloNews takes a look at what are likely to be the most important stages for the GC at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.
A look at the power numbers of Jai Hindley, Juan Pedro López, and Thymen Arensman from the final mountain stage of this year's Giro d'Italia.
'The riders make the race but they need inspiring terrain to ensure the script isn’t predictable', writes former Giro stage winner.
Steady support, breakaway efforts, but no stage wins for the four-rider North American contingent.
Reviewing the top riders from this year's Giro d'Italia and where they go from here.
Richard Carapaz crumbled out of pink in dramatic day in the Dolomites, but what else happened in the top-10? Here's an analysis.
'On Saturday we’re going to high altitude and that’s Richard Carapaz's playground,' Australian writes in his exclusive VeloNews blog.
The second half of the stage is packed with testing climbs, notably the Kolovrat, before the short and sharp uphill finale to the Santuario di Castelmonte.
Giro di Hoody: These are hard times for sprinters facing reduced opportunities across ever more challenging grand tours.
Saturday's mountain finish at Fedaia is a real grinder and it's during the Giro's 'epic' third week that reveals a rider's true character.
Five stages on from their last thrilling battle into Cuneo, sprinters Arnaud Démare and Mark Cavendish get a final chance for glory as the Giro heads for Treviso
Stage 17 features the Vetriolo pass where Andy Hampsten wrapped up the 1988 Giro d’Italia title, followed by the testing ascent to Monterovere.
Recall a day of high drama in the high mountains as the Giro d'Italia kicks into its decisive final week.
From one-hit wonders to doomed superdomestiques, the top of the Giro crop all carry question marks heading into the race's final week.
A look at power numbers from Vincenzo Nibali, Joe Dombrowski, and Emanuel Buchmann after an epic medium mountain stage.
With five riders within 61 seconds of the pink jersey, nothing is decided, and everything is still in play.
Carapaz has the strongest team but Bora and Bahrain have cards to play, and Almeida remains a threat.
Four riders within 1:01 of pink jersey Richard Carapaz sets the scene for a scintillating third week through the high mountains.
It was a day for the break as the GC riders saved their legs for the final week of the Giro d'Italia.
Stage 15 to Cogne is not the most difficult mountain stage of the race, but it will be a tough test after the dramatic Turin stage.
Catch up on a day that saw Richard Carapaz take the maglia rosa and the general classification reshaped.
Giro di Hoody: The French climber seemed poised for more in this Giro d'Italia, and the race will miss his elegant, attacking style in the final week.
Giro di Hoody: 'Generation Pogačar' might be dominating the Tour de France, but this year's Giro is proving that experience and depth still count.
The Giro’s leading sprinters will have their sights set on victory in Reggio Emilia six days after Scalea matchup.
A look at power numbers from Mathieu van der Poel, Thomas De Gendt, and Emmanuel Buchmann in the opening stages of the corsa rosa.
Australian takes VeloNews readers into the action, and his strategy, on the summit finish.
‘Kilometers in Fuga’ and ‘Traguardo Volante’ competitions give Drone Hopper opportunities for prizes in a peloton with far deeper purse-strings.
A series of sprint chances and transition stages will keep the suspense going into the final mountain stages.
Dan Martin watches the Giro d'Italia come to life on the summit finish of Blockhaus and takes VeloNews readers inside the mind of a racer.
Richie Porte and Ineos Grenadiers at center of bruising ascent on the Blockhaus.
The first decisive summit finish in the 2022 Giro d'Italia will tell everyone who has the legs to win the pink jersey.
'For sure we'll see a big battle between GC riders.' Buzzsaw-shaped stage packs potential for ambush, attack, and sending sprinters out the back.
Cavendish: 'We knew that was going to happen. It was a bonus if we could sprint today but we had to try.'
The 'Shark of Messina' won all three grand tours and is the only rider to stop the Sky machine at its peak.
The Ineos game plan will be to stay safe and start creating fatigue in their competitors in the hope Carapaz is the strongest in week three.
Dumoulin and Nibali see their GC hopes slip away as Yates and Carapaz hold fire on the first summit finish.
A look at power numbers from Mathieu van der Poel at the Giro d’Italia.
Saturday's tight, technical TT could see a whole host of riders in the frame for the stage win and the second pink jersey of the race. Here's our picks.
Matt White and TT expert Marco Pinotti share their insight into the nature of the all-important 9.2km test.
The time gaps are small but every second counts at this stage in the Giro d'Italia.
Roglič and Pogačar won five of the seven past grand tours. Without them, the Giro could be faster and more frenetic than ever before.
From Carapaz to Carthy, Andy Schleck rates 10 potential contenders for the Giro d'Italia.
Who is lean, who has the fastest haircut, and what's it like heading into my final grand tour.
Giro di Hoody: The ever-expanding reach of the ‘Grande Partenza' are not only an important income source for Giro d'Italia organizers but push the concept of how far a grand tour can go.
‘When you are racing bikes you have to be able to lie a little,’ says the rider once known as ‘The Sheriff’.
Hugh Carthy and Magnus Cort headline American team for the first grand tour of the season.
Three US starters is the lowest number at the Giro d'Italia since 2014.
GC chasers, climbing sensations and wingmen-de-luxe are among the five young debutants that could dazzle in this year's Giro.
After riding in the shadows at Ineos Grenadiers, the Colombian climber will step into the limelight at the Giro d'Italia this month.
A look at the eight riders that Ineos Grenadiers is sending to the Giro d'Italia, from GC hopeful Richard Carapaz to debutant Ben Tulett.
Colombian climber Egan Bernal is counting down the kilometers in the final mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Have too many expectations and too much pressure to perform been placed on the shoulders of someone 18 months removed from being a teenager?
With Remco Evenepoel out of the Giro d'Italia, should have Deceuninck-Quick-Step backed João Almeida all along?
Egan Bernal bends but does not break as Colombian shows first chink in armor as pink jersey fight enters most dangerous phase.
Is someone lurking in the peloton to pull a ‘Froome’? Will Bernal's back hold out? Or will the final week become a victory parade for Bernal?
The removal of two high-altitude climbs defanged the 'queen stage' of the Giro d'Italia, and revived the debate of what's safe and what's acceptable in a sport born on risk.
Egan Bernal appears to be in the driver's seat — will Monte Zoncolan crown him king of the Giro?
The Italian grand tour upped its game more than a decade ago, and now it stands alongside the 'grande boucle' with nothing to envy.
Team BikeExchange captain so far has avoided the mishaps, crashes and time gaps that can prove fatal to a podium run in a grand tour.
The Belgian star lost more than two minutes on the gravel stage to Montalcino, can he bounce back? Or did he lose all chances?
'Gran' Bernal delivers his finest performance since winning the 2019 Tour de France to gap rivals and tighten grip on pink jersey.
The Slovakian superstar counts on tactical expertise as well as strong teamwork to deliver sublime Giro d'Italia stage victory.