Giro d'Italia 2025

As a grand tour leader, Mikel Landa is an unknown quantity, but rivals fear his climbing talents and his formidable Sky team.

Greipel, Kittel, and Ewan each head to the Giro d'Italia with something to prove, and the early flat stages are pregnant with opportunity.

Davide Formolo has immersed himself in the sport, learning from pros like Basso and Hesjedal, with a promising future ahead.

Global Cycling Network considers the top riders, route, and makes predictions for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.

The Giro d'Italia's thrilling action and colorful scenery is best captured with photos — here is a look back at the 2015 race.

Here are the 22 Giro squads, ranked by potential for stage wins, GC position, and TV time.

Italian cycling used to be dominant. Now, after doping scandals and economic problems, it's starting to come back, slowly but surely.

Italian authorities played a crucial role in Alejandro Valverde's two-year racing ban, but the Spaniard insists he's over the past.

The Italian won the race in 2013 and said he's excited to compete for the pink jersey in his home grand tour.

The eight North Americans starting the 2016 Giro range from a former champ to four debutants at the Italian grand tour.

Rigoberto Uran says he's tired of finishing second. He wants to win the Giro d'Italia's pink jersey and an Olympic gold medal this year.

The Giro d'Italia kicks off May 6, so here's a look at the 22 teams and their likely leaders for the season's first grand tour.

Gazprom-RusVelo will join three other Pro Continental teams and the 18 WorldTour teams at the Italian grand tour in May.

The Dutchman nearly won the Vuelta a Espana last year, a surprising performance from the time trial specialist.

RCS Mediagroup unveils a three-year plan that it hopes will strengthen its business, which includes keeping its lineup of 10 cycling races.

Mauro Vegni tells VeloNews the Italian grand tour has yet to reach an agreement with the UCI on starting outside of Europe.

Giro d'Italia organizers unveiled the 2016 route Monday, and they're hoping the diverse stage lineup will attract top riders.

Organizer RCS Sport announces the course at the Milan World Expo Monday, and it includes three time trials.

Vincenzo Nibali, star of the show at Il Lombardia, will take the spotlight at the Giro 2016 announcement too

The Giro d'Italia's 2016 route was inadvertently revealed, and it features three different time trial tests.

The race's full route will be announced October 5 at the World’s Fair in Milan.

The Italian grand tour's organizer RCS Sport will unveil the full route next month.

Another grand tour start will happen in The Netherlands next year, as the Giro d'Italia has chosen the nation for its grande partenza

The peloton warms up to the idea of possibly bringing the Giro d'Italia to the United States, on the condition that things are well-planned

Spend a day on the highest climb of the 2015 Giro d'Italia, and see the race through the lens of BrakeThrough Media

Oleg Tinkov says Contador's Tour de France rivals are "afraid" of him, that it's unfair for Nibali, Froome to skip Giro

In the wake of the MPCC's public criticism during the Giro d'Italia, Bardiani-CSF announced that it will quit the voluntary organization

Landa reflects on finishing third in the Giro behind teammate Fabio Aru

The Spaniard cannot shake rumors that he used a motor in his bike during the Giro d'Italia

BrakeThrough Media's most compelling images from the 2015 Giro d'Italia, a dramatic battle for the pink jersey

Contador says completing the Giro-Tour double with a yellow jersey is his top priority, not defending his Vuelta a Espana title

The Outer Line recently caught up with Andy Hampsten to discuss his historic Giro d'Italia win, and his thoughts about the current state of pro cycling

Astana proved it was head and shoulders above any other team in the Giro, begging the question: Can Alberto Contador contend at the Tour?

Take a ride inside the Giro d'Italia peloton on one of the race's hardest days: a trip over the partially unpaved Colle delle Finestre

Caley Fretz sits down with three Americans who made it to Milan and discovers the common denominator between them is relief

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy hails Alberto Contador's Giro d'Italia win

Alberto Contador is halfway to his goal of winning the Giro and the Tour in the same season. His quest for yellow starts in a month

The two United States-registered squads come away from the Giro satisfied with their performances

Tim De Waele catches the last act of the 2015 Giro d'Italia, in Milan

Alberto Contador clinches the 2015 Giro d'Italia title as Iljo Keisse wins the finale out of a two-man break

Scenes from stage 20, the 2015 Giro d'Italia's final day in the mountains

Results from the Giro's 20th stage, the final mountain showdown of the race

A flat final stage is all that stands between Contador and a Giro win after the GC leader held on in pink despite a bad day in the mountains

Fabio Aru thrills the Italian crowds with a stage win on one of the Giro's toughest mountain stages

Ryder Hesjedal attacks his way back into the top-10 of the Giro d'Italia GC, keeping his head high despite some near misses for stage wins

With the weight of Italy's expectations on his shoulders, Fabio Aru attacked in the face of a hopeless Giro GC battle to win stage 19

Alberto Contador remains coy about his chances to win a stage at this year's Giro with Saturday's final mountainous day looming

Confident Contador rides a conservative stage, keeping his overall lead, while Fabio Aru snatches the win in Cervinia

Giro race leader Alberto Contador's bike is whisked away after stage 17 to be disassembled and checked for an illegal motor

Global Cycling Network takes a ride up Colle delle Finestre to preview the 2015 Giro d'Italia's penultimate stage

Astana suggests the Italian could try his luck in the Spanish grand tour after he fell out of contention at the Giro this week

The BMC Racing rider was 1:25 outside the top 5 entering Friday's mountainous stage 19

Damiano Cunego, winner of the 2004 Giro d'Italia, withdraws from the race due to injuries suffered in a crash Thursday

A crafty Philippe Gilbert attacks out of the breakaway to win as Contador extends his overall lead

Alberto Contador puts more time into Astana rivals on stage 18 after Aru and Landa are distanced by crash at base of climb

Ryder Hesjedal's Cannondale was checked for a motor by the UCI following Thursday's stage, along with four other bikes

Contador strikes again, gaining more GC time as Philippe Gilbert claims his second stage win in this year's Giro

The Giro wends around Lake Como and finishes across the border in Switzerland with a fast sprint finish

David Brailsford says that Richie Porte has proven himself as one of the world's top stage racers even though he abandoned the Giro

After some heavy mountain stages, the sprinters have their day, and all is quiet on the GC front

Outspoken Tinkoff-Saxo owner feels that cycling needs to change to offer better, safer racing, especially at the grand tours

Astana and Katusha say they didn't know Alberto Contador flatted leading into a decisive climb in Tuesday's stage 16

With Fabio Aru's fading form, Astana looks to young Basque climber Mikel Landa to take the helm as Contador proves unflappable

Androni-Sidermec team manager clashes with BMC's Ochowicz's over assertion that Pro Continental teams should not be invited to big races

Ryder Hesjedal wants Tinkoff-Saxo to let the breakaway go, says the team's tactics only lead to isolation for its leader, Contador

Giro leader Alberto Contador overcomes flat tire and surprise attack from Astana, Katusha to blast up Mortirolo and extend GC advantage

Landa lands another stage win as the Contador extends GC lead with masterful climbing on the Mortirolo

Global Cycling Network compares using a standard crankset vs. a compact one on this demanding climb featured in the Giro

With Contador sitting pretty in the pink jersey, it seems Astana won't be able to present a real challenge for overall GC supremacy

The Spaniard talks about his chances of winning his second Giro title

The Sky rider entered the race as a favorite to win, but a crash, injuries, and a time penalty squashed his hopes for pink

Cannondale-Garmin's veteran mechanics share their tales of strange, surprising, and humorous happenings from the European circuit

Alberto Contador looks at his best when the odds are against him, and Sunday in the Dolomites proved no exception

Tim De Waele captures the action in stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia

Good legs, bad luck: Ryder Hesjedal chases alone to 13th overall after a late crash splits the Giro d’Italia peloton

Astana gets a stage win but fails to dislodge Alberto Contador from the top of the standings in the Giro d'Italia

Despite lingering aches and pains from a spill on Friday, and sitting well down on the overall, Richie Porte continues in the Giro d'Italia

Scenes from an impactful race against the clock in the Giro's 14th stage

Results from the Giro's 14th stage, a 59.4km individual time trial

Avoiding a challenging final week in the mountains, several sprinters are leaving Italy to recuperate in preparation for later season goals