Dan Martin’s Giro d’Italia analysis: Was the 2022 race entertaining?
'The riders make the race but they need inspiring terrain to ensure the script isn’t predictable', writes former Giro stage winner.
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'The riders make the race but they need inspiring terrain to ensure the script isn’t predictable', writes former Giro stage winner.
The Dutchman delighted on and off the bike across three weeks of racing in Italy.
The 24-year-old defended his pink jersey with determination and finished the Giro d'Italia with the white jersey and a top-10 in the GC.
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.
Hindley's Giro win is a milestone moment for Australian cycling, but that's only part of it.
'I had the tingles,' says Chris Hamilton of hearing of historic win, while Lucas Hamilton is 'proud to be an Aussie and proud of Jai.'
Young Briton Ben Tulett’s longest race before the Giro was eight days, and says he learned a huge amount from working for Ineos leader Richard Carapaz.
'Landismo' is back where he belongs.
Giro runner-up Richard Carapaz says one bad day cost him the race, switches focus to the Vuelta a España.
Hindley breaks new ground as first Australian Giro d'Italia champion, buries memories of near-miss in 2020.
National TT champ Sobrero dominates to bring Italy its fifth stage win, Hindley scores first-ever maglia rosa for both Bora-Hansgrohe and Australia.
'Everything was going to plan on the Fedaia, Richard said he was feeling good,' says Ineos Grenadiers manager Rod Ellingworth.
From TT stars Matteo Sobrero and Thymen Arensman to pink jersey rivals Richard Carapaz and Jai Hindley, here are the start times for the Verona closer.
The Perth man is poised to become the first ever Australian winner of the Giro d'Italia.
Alessandro Covi took stage 20 victory from the breakaway, while in the GC race, the fireworks waited until the final climb.
Bahrain-Victorious captain gained time on Richard Carapaz and will go into the Verona TT 26 seconds behind the Ecuadorian.
The Australian goes into the final time trial with a 1:25 lead over Richard Carapaz.
Jai Hindley seizes control of pink jersey while Alessandro Covi takes the stage win.
'I could sense through his body language that he wasn’t on a good day,' says former Tour de France winner.
Australian takes control ahead of the final time trial.
Covi scores with 50km solo move, overnight leader Carapaz loses wheel to Hindley in final three kilometers in dramatic GC overturn.
Ineos Grenadiers leader out of pink as Hindley takes control.
Here's how to watch the race for the maglia rosa from a desktop computer, handheld or mobile device, TV, or smart streaming app.
A TT of pure strength Sunday could see 30-second gaps that rapidly erase any advantages forged in Saturday's mountain stage.
Richie Porte is ready to let cycling go, but not before one last lap around Italy.
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After another day where the Giro’s three leading contenders couldn’t be split, Richard Carapaz insists that the final section of Saturday’s last mountain stage will produce a GC verdict.
Australian still sits three seconds back from the pink jersey Carapaz: 'We’ve got a tough day coming up tomorrow, I think that will be the big decider.'
Three huge Dolomite passes, two trips to thin air, and a fearsome final 5km look set to split the GC contenders on the Giro’s penultimate day.
The podium for the Giro is going down to the wire, while the team also discuss the latest developments in the Moriah Wilson case.
The Ecuadorian goes into the final three stages with a three-second lead over Jai Hindley.
Australian was dropped in the finale but hangs onto second overall as mechanical took place inside the final 3km.
A four-rider breakaway upsets the sprinters.
Giro di Hoody: These are hard times for sprinters facing reduced opportunities across ever more challenging grand tours.
The 23-year-old Portuguese rider was poised in fourth overall in GC ahead of stage 18.
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
A veteran cycling reporter finally makes his way to the Giro d’Italia after 30 years.
It was a good day for Bahrain-Victorious, which saw GC leader Mikel Landa climb into the top 3 as their young star claimed the stage.
The Brit stepped off during stage 17.
Australian says that it’s easy to commit fully to Richard Carapaz because "he’s a great leader".
The Australian is running out of time to claw back time on Richard Carapaz but he believes the penultimate stage will prove decisive.
Ineos Grenadiers captain keeps hold of three-second lead in the overall classification in taught battle with rival Jai Hindley.
Vincenzo Nibali and João Almeida lose time in the overall standings as podium starts to take shape.
British climber and double stage winner abandons Giro after struggling with 'edema of the bony spongiosa of the patella' since stage 4.
UAE Team Emirates GC challenger loses 14 seconds to the pink jersey but holds onto third place.
Stage 17 features the Vetriolo pass where Andy Hampsten wrapped up the 1988 Giro d’Italia title, followed by the testing ascent to Monterovere.
The American said the 'Giro is really starting' this week as GC fight ramps up.
The three strongest climbers in the race are evenly matched but Hindley is closing in on pink.
Pello Bilbao said it was 'a shame' that Bahrain Victorious didn’t gain more from their aggressive performance to Aprica, while Mikel Landa pledged to keep taking the fight to his rivals.
The Giro d'Italia race leader says the race will be won on small 'details.'
Vincenzo Nibali and João Almeida lose time as Richard Caparaz sees his lead reduced in sprint for bonus seconds.
From one-hit wonders to doomed superdomestiques, the top of the Giro crop all carry question marks heading into the race's final week.
See how the Giro has evolved with these charts and data visualisations.
Five riders still lie within a minute on GC as the Giro d'Italia reaches its crescendo.
"It means we’re not here to play around, to put it like that."
'We’re in the lead and we know what we have to do. So it’s basically up to us to get the job done,' Porte writes in his exclusive VeloNews Giro blog.
Spanish climber believes that the longer ascents and higher altitudes of the Giro’s third week will play to his advantage in the battle for the pink jersey.
Newly confident Australian aims at the top step in this year's race.
Ineos Grenadiers has won three of the past four pink jerseys, and is now in pole position to win another one.
The Giro d'Italia riders have been baking under high temperatures for the last two weeks, but they'll have to face the rain in the final week.
With five riders within 61 seconds of the pink jersey, nothing is decided, and everything is still in play.
Guillaume Martin’s yo-yoing Giro took an upward turn on Sunday’s stage to Cogne, where he managed to boost himself back into the top 10 and regain confidence going into the final week.
After more than two years without a victory, Giulio Ciccone bounced back in the best way with a win in the mountains that also extended Trek-Segafredo’s run of success at the Giro.
Stage 15 was one for the breakaway, with Giulio Ciccone the strongest on the first Alpine test of the 2022 Giro d'Italia.
Carapaz has the strongest team but Bora and Bahrain have cards to play, and Almeida remains a threat.
'Maybe I arrived at the Giro d'Italia a little behind the others but not too far,' says veteran rider.
Four riders within 1:01 of pink jersey Richard Carapaz sets the scene for a scintillating third week through the high mountains.
Bora-Hansgrohe rider says the peloton was feeling the pain after a tough day out in Turin on Saturday.
'It’s always better to defend than to attack,' says 2019 winner but with a final time trial to come attacks are on the menu.
Dutchman crumbles out of grand tour comeback empty handed and empty legged after stage 14 abandon.
Seems like another important GC day, but will the breakaway escape to take the stage win?
Bora-Hansgrohe took the peloton by surprise on stage 14, scattering the GC top 10 and propelling Jai Hindley into second place.
Bora-Hansgrohe went on the offensive very early in the race, but it was Simon Yates who raised his arms in celebration on stage 14.
Bahrain Victorious rider loses over 30 seconds to his main GC rivals and now sits 59 seconds off the race lead.
López loses grip on maglia rosa after 10 defiant days of Giro d'Italia debut.
Three years on from breakout Giro victory, Carapaz is back in pink, but the Ecuadorian admits that he was surprised by the strength of rivals.
Catch up on a day that saw Richard Carapaz take the maglia rosa and the general classification reshaped.
Richard Carapaz moves into the maglia rosa but Jai Hindley is just seven seconds back as the overall standings massively shift.