Giro d'Italia 2025

Alberto Contador loses overall lead, but it seems likely he'll soon return to the maglia rosa with a long, difficult time trial looming

It is day for the sprinters, albeit a rainy, treacherous one that shook up the GC standings with a crash late in the race

Giro GC gets shaken up by another late crash on a rainy day for the sprinters

The Tinkoff-Saxo rider aims to take back the pink jersey from Fabio Aru before entering the Giro's final, mountainous stretch

Thursday's stage 12 at the Giro d'Italia featured a steep finishing climb and lots of cold rain

Both riders wet down in Thursday's wet stage, with Kung hospitalized with a compression fracture of his T9 vertebrae

Riders at the back of the Giro's stage 12 were delayed in the finish as fans crossed the barriers and blocked the roadway

Global Cycling Network teams up with Caley Fretz to see what tiny tech details Giro teams are minding to get an advantage in the race

Rigoberto Uran rode into the Giro as a GC favorite, but now he's clinging on to the front group, hoping the TT is his ticket to the podium

Philippe Gilbert was not to be denied his first win of the season on a punchy finale that perfectly suited the Belgian strongman

Alberto Contador keeps squeezing his GC rivals for seconds on the Giro's tough transition stages, sitting comfortably in race lead

Philippe Gilbert earns first win in seven months, sprinting up steep final climb in the rain. Contador extends GC lead

UCI president Brian Cookson says jury's ruling to dock Porte two minutes in the Giro was a fair decision, that Sky should know the rules

It's Ilnur Zakarin's day at the Giro as the young Russian claims his first grand tour stage win in the rain

Alberto Contador is quick to put his GC rival Fabio Aru on the ropes Wednesday in a rainy Giro d'Italia stage

Zakarin claims his first grand tour victory in a rainy, hilly stage as the GC remains unchanged

According to the Movement for Credible Cycling, Bardiani-CSF started the Giro with a rider who violated the voluntary organization's rules

Team Sky boss says he wants the race jury to be more consistent in how it applies rules after his Giro leader is penalized two minutes

The Orica-GreenEdge rider says he was merely helping his friend by giving Richie Porte a wheel late in stage 10

Take a walk through the Giro d'Italia with BrakeThrough Media and soak in the spectacle's atmosphere, from the fans to the food

Fellow pro riders, team managers, journalists, and other pundits sound off on the UCI jury's decision to penalize Porte in Giro stage 10

On what should have been a quiet day for the sprinters, the breakaway succeeds and the GC standings get shaken up by a late-race flat

Richie Porte's bad day at the Giro gets worse as the race jury decides to penalize the GC favorite for receiving aid from an Orica rider

Two Italian riders, Alan Marangoni and Alessandro Malaguti, hatched a plan Monday, keen to be off the front in front of their home crowds

A surprise GC shakeup comes on a flat sprint stage, and an unassuming break stays away to win

GC hopeful Richie Porte suffers setback in what was expected to be a quiet stage after Monday's rest day, but he's ready to keep fighting

With the first week of the Italian grand tour in the books, three riders have emerged as the leading trio chasing the pink jersey

Alberto Contador adjusts time trial position to ease pressure on his injured shoulder ahead of Saturday's potentially decisive stage 14

Astana had a strong first week at the Giro d'Italia, but is the squad getting ahead of itself and doing too much, too soon at the race?

With a convincing late-race attack, Paolo Tiralongo rides away to win as the three GC rivals squabble for seconds at the end of a hilly day

Richie Porte is 22 seconds behind race leader Alberto Contador as he looks for his first grand tour victory

The Giro d'Italia's director tells VeloNews efforts to bring the Italian grand tour to the United States are back on track

Astana gets the stage win and takes back a second from race leader Alberto Contador on stage 9 of the Giro d'Italia

Tinkoff-Saxo doctor Piet de Moor says Alberto Contador gets nothing more potent than Ibuprofen and therapeutic tape to treat his shoulder

Images from an action-packed day in the mountains at the 2015 Giro d'Italia

Successful in one-week races earlier this year, Richie Porte is now trying to manage his assets and his supporting cast across three weeks

Alberto Contador is maintaining his hold on the Giro's GC lead despite a shoulder injury, but a looming TT has him feeling a bit anxious

Following a string of wet-weather crashes this spring, Team Sky is testing new tires at the Giro d’Italia

The first mountaintop finish of the Giro sees a Spanish winner, as the GC favorites mark each other closely. Contador keeps pink jersey

With mountains on the horizon, a banged up Contador endures the Giro's longest day in the saddle to retain pink and to fight another day

On the longest stage of this year's Giro at 264 kilometers, Lampre-Merida notches another stage win with a surprise sprint winner

After a 264 kilometers in the saddle, the peloton slugs it out in a sprint finish as Contador soldiers on despite injured shoulder

Canadian Ryder Hesjedal knows his best days are to come in the Giro's final week, and his Cannondale-Garmin team gives him full support

Claudio Castellano sewed a custom pink jersey to accommodate Alberto Contador's injured shoulder

The BMC rider talks to VeloNews about making it into breaks, a demanding and competitive task in grand tour racing

Contador defiantly starts Friday’s seventh stage proudly dressed in the pink jersey despite a heavy crash in Thursday’s finale

Alberto Contador and the Tinkoff-Saxo team are hopeful that with a bit of care, his dislocated shoulder will not keep him from the race

On a stage that was perfect for the sprinters, Greipel delivers a big win and Contador crashes, putting GC ambitions in jeopardy

Giro d'Italia leader Alberto Contador hits the ground in a large crash at the finish of stage 6, injuring his left shoulder

Greipel 'The Gorilla' grabs his first stage win in this year's Giro with a fierce sprint kick

This early in the Giro, Contador would prefer to give someone else the honor of taking on the pink jersey's many responsibilities

Richie Porte delivers a strong performance in stage 5, but his contingent of support riders is noticeably thin on the final climb

Contador can't resist the urge to ride at the front and challenge his GC rivals with an attack on the Giro's first mountaintop finish

Global Cycling Network has the details on the new Merida that Polanc won to a bold stage win in the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday

Who will win the Giro? The GC picture gets a lot clearer on stage 5, and a young debutant delivers a big win for Lampre-Merida

Sprint legend Mario Cipollini questions Alberto Contador's stage 5 bike change in post-Giro TV program

Jan Polanc notches his first big win as GC favorites mix it up on the finishing climb to Abetone and Contador takes pink

Rigoberto Urán, twice second at the Giro d’Italia, watched his maglia rosa dream ride 42 seconds up the road on Tuesday

The future is now for Davide Formolo, who notches his first professional win in stage 4 of the Giro d'Italia, also his first grand tour

A hard, hilly stage shatters the field, as a young Italian claims his first pro win, and Orica clings to the pink jersey for one more day

Orica-GreenEdge finds a way to keep the pink jersey for another day as a fresh face wins stage 4 in a solo breakaway

Lampre-Merida's Diego Ulissi returns to the Giro d'Italia, where he enjoyed success in 2014 but also ran afoul of anti-doping tests

Following Pozzovivo's dramatic departure from the Giro, Ag2r hopes Colombian sensation Betancur can rediscover his winning touch

After a night in the hospital and 20 stitches to mend injuries on his face, Domenico Pozzovivo is free to return home and recover

Alberto Contador might not be in the race lead at the moment, but his team has already spent plenty of time at the front of the peloton

2012 Giro winner Ryder Hesjedal not panicked by 46-second deficit to former winner Alberto Contador after just three stages

The UCI has been conducting numerous bike checks at the Giro to ensure that riders are not using illegal motors hidden in their frames

A tough late climb challenges the sprinters, but Matthews and Orica-GreenEdge claim another stage win at the Giro

Tough climbs split up the Giro, but Matthews stays strong and shows off the pink jersey in the Sestri Levante finale

Cannondale-Garmin's Tom Danielson wants to embrace the challenge of the Giro d'Italia, his first grand tour since 2013

GC favorite Domenico Pozzovivo crashes out of Giro d'Italia stage 3, but race doctors report that his injuries are not life-threatening

Once the Giro d'Italia entered the famous port city where Christopher Columbus set sail, some contenders' ships started taking on water

“Morale is high, everyone is going about their work, and everyone is excited about the coming races," says sport director Charly Wegelius

Tim De Waele follows the fast and furious stage 2 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia

Michael Matthews takes the maglia rosa as Elia Viviani finishes fastest on stage 2 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia

The weight of a nation rests on Fabio Aru's shoulders as the young Italian rides, for the first time, as Astana's GC leader in the Giro

Orica-GreenEdge smashes the Giro's opening team time trial for the second year in a row, and GC hopefuls Etixx and Tinkoff are in the hunt

Results from the opening stage of the 2015 Giro d'Italia

After a rough start to 2015, Simon Gerrans can celebrate riding into the Giro's pink leader's jersey on stage 1

41-year-old Italian sprinter Petacchi says he’s not done yet, but admits career decisions may come after Giro d'Italia