2022 Giro d'Italia

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Mount Etna and Giro-inspired graffiti train!

Enrico Gasparotto gives us an inside look at how Bora became a Grand Tour winning team

Three and a half, or maybe four.

'Never say never,' was Jai Hindley's response to whether a future Tour de France victory is within his reach.

This week we present to you the full episode of VENGA where Matt and Mitch discuss Hindley's Giro victory, can he win the TdF? Richie Porte's abandonment, Landa vs Carapaz, Remco's continued dominance and more...

The Dutchman delighted on and off the bike across three weeks of racing in Italy.

The Ecuadorian's runner-up spot in Italy was his third Grand Tour podium with the British squad.

Fair dinkum, Jai Hindley wins the Giro d'Italia, as BikeExchange-Jayco's Matteo Sobrero takes the stage on a great day for Australia.

Pozzovivo is one of two Italian veterans to finish among the whippersnappers at this year’s Giro d’Italia.

'Landismo' is back where he belongs.

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.

Should be a day for the GC men – their last in the mountains.

Does it get any better than a close fight for the maglia rosa into the Giro's final weekend?

Einaudi grew up on a wine-producing farm in the hills south-east of Turin.

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Richard Carapaz loses a key domestique as the Giro reaches its climax.

Some new factors are in play, including aerodynamic trickery.

For a moment it appeared the GC battle was over as Hindley crossed the line a minute down on Richard Carapaz.

Stage 18 was meant to be a routine sprint stage, but the peloton was caught napping and Dries De Bondt won from the breakaway.

There's no other sport quite like this one.

The Portuguese rider had sat fourth overall in the white jersey.

A late chance for the sprinters.

Three consecutive days in the breakaway, no stage victory (yet).

The Giro's social media managers nearly had to commit crimes against Italy.

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.

Where will this end?

Probably a day for the breakaway, but it will certainly have GC implications too.

Jan Hirt had the legs and the fight to take his team's second Giro win.

A tongue-in-cheek suggestion from Wout Poels, but how else can rivals topple the Ineos Grenadiers?

Jan Hirt holds off Thymen Arensman to take the win from the break on stage 16.

The CT podcast team looks back at the past few days of the Giro d'Italia and considers the stages ahead.

Fact check: does this emotional Italian always throw his sunglasses away, or just sometimes?

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.

Likely to be another important GC day, with the Mortirolo, thunderstorms, and a descent to the finish in Aprica.

One fan's quest to get his hands on a pair of Eolo-Kometa Burger King bib shorts.

"It means we’re not here to play around, to put it like that."

Dear race organisers, more short stages and hilly local laps at Grand Tours, please. Yours, cycling.

Guillaume "yo-yo" Martin is up to his old tricks and back in the top 10 after stage 15 of the 2022 Giro d'Italia.

Stage 15 was one for the breakaway, with Giulio Ciccone the strongest on the first Alpine test of the 2022 Giro d'Italia.

Bora-Hansgrohe took the peloton by surprise on stage 14, scattering the GC top 10 and propelling Jai Hindley into second place.

Not even a stage win on the hardest day yet can alleviate the pain of another GC loss for the Englishman.

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.

The CT podcast team breaks down a big week at the Giro d'Italia.

Tom Dumoulin's name was added to the list of abandons during stage 14.

The Frenchman tightens his grip on the maglia ciclamino.

The Frenchman fell ill on stage 12 and his condition worsened overnight.

Two Italian victories in as many days.

The chances for the quick men are fast disappearing, and have literal mountains to climb before the next real opportunity in Treviso on stage 18.

The corks are gone.

Alberto Dainese overhauls some big names on stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia.

The Ineos Grenadiers rider, currently supporting Richard Carapaz at the Giro d'Italia, on his first few months as a French-registered rider.

Highs and lows: minutes after winning his debut Grand Tour stage, the Eritrean star copped a race-ending cork in his eye. 

From 2018 to 2022, Biniam Girmay's career has been one of firsts.

About as sprinty as sprint stages get.

After coming close a number of times already this Italian Grand Tour, everything came together for Girmay to make history at the Giro.

Biniam Girmay was injured when the cork from the stage winner's sparkling wine bottle hit him in the eye.

The CT podcast team breaks down a big week at the Giro d'Italia.

Simon Yates lost his Giro hopes on stage 9. Should his team send Yates home and go all-in for the TdF?

There were no big gains as the fight for pink began in earnest on stage 9, but there were a few enormous losses.

Juan Pedro López retains pink, but the GC looks much clearer after a mountain battle on stage 9 of the Giro d'Italia.

There were a handful of different tactics fighting for dominance on stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia, but only one would win.

Thomas De Gendt and Lotto Soudal picked the right moment to stamp their authority on a fantastic stage in Naples.

It's been a week, so where does the Giro stand?

Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli team kit: what secrets do you hold?

Could an amateur racer have kept up?

A closer look at Arnaud Démare's narrow victory in a hectic sprint on stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia.

Colombian sprinter loses out for the second day in a row after clashing with DSM train.

In defence of Grand Tour stages where nothing happens.

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The Frenchman, beset by post-victory duties on stage 5, came close to missing the boat to Calabria.

Rivals managed to drop Cavendish before the bunch sprint on stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia.

The Shark of Messina made the announcement as the Italian Grand Tour arrived in his hometown.

The Frenchman proves fastest in the bunch sprint in Sicily.

The village of Zámoly has decided to honour the bus stop next to where Mark Cavendish had a bike change on the opening day of the Giro d'Italia.

The faded glory of Sicily's streetscapes, feat. a massive flaming mountain.

The Giro d'Italia didn't pick up as much as expected on the first stage on Italian soil, but the race nonetheless has been shaken up.

Questions were asked, and Dumoulin's legs had no answer as his ambitions cratered.