Giro d'Italia

The first grand tour of the season has a way of serving up unpredictable racing with an ever evolving bag of tricks.

New incentives in professional cycling mean more interesting racing, and a thus-far unpredictable Giro d'Italia.

The Frenchman tightens his grip on the maglia ciclamino.

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

UAE Team Emirates leader says there’s been little chance for the GC favorites to test each other yet, but believes he’ll be ready for this weekend’s more testing stages.

BikeExchange sport director Matt White says that Yates' knee injury is 'manageable but not ideal.'

The Frenchman took his third stage victory of the race after the break was caught in a dramatic last-gasp effort.

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.

Quick-Step sprinter states he would like to stay with his Belgian team, confirms that he’d like to continue racing for at least another two years.

DSM captain forced to quit the race due to illness that had affected him for two days. 'We gave it a go, but it just wasn’t possible,' says Matt Winston

It was a real tug-of-war between the sprinters and the breakaway in the 2022 Giro's last chance for a mass gallop.

Bernal spotted training on the Giro d'Italia course as part of multi-angled rehab program.

Frenchman quits the race due to illness.

Mountain bike ace Zwiehoff turns full attention to career on the road: 'I'm a road cyclist now, not a mountain biker.'

The Dutchman made it into the breakaway on stage 12 but missed the race-winning split over the penultimate climb and finished fourth.

While some of the well-established names remain, Ineos invested heavily in young talent and is already seeing the benefit at the Giro d'Italia and beyond.

Two Italian victories in as many days.

Ben Swift helping his team leader to climb the standings through bonus seconds ahead of the Giro d'Italia's final week.

‘I’m genuinely sorry for the language I used,’ says Australian of stage 10 incident.

EF Education-EasyPost puncheur hopes to complete a set of grand tour stage wins after comeback from injury.

Bora-Hansgrohe rider climbed the classification after making stage 12 breakaway but says he's not 'good enough' in the long climbs to return to GC fight.

Ben Tulett is tipped as a future grand tour contender, but has come to his first three-week race with the aim of helping Carapaz and learning all he can.

EF Education-EasyPost climber is hoping to make up ground in the GC after losing time in the opening week.

López books in for another day in pink jersey after GC contenders enjoy day off ahead of mountain mayhem to come.

Belgian pocket-rocket trades time conquering climbs for Quick-Step with life working the family farm.

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.

Merlier linked to move to Quick-Step in 2023 while out-of-contract Cavendish hunts options to prolong career.

The Australian speedster struggled in the sprints at the Giro d'Italia after crashing on day one.

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 24-year-old continues his run in the pink jersey and hopes to hold it for a few more days at least.

UAE Team Emirates sprinter thought he got a repeat win in Reggio Emilia but admits that he couldn’t match Alberto Dainese’s stage-winning surge in the final meters.

The 24-year-old Italian says that he's still learning about his own capabilities after taking his first-ever grand tour stage win.

Matt Winston explains how Team DSM’s focus on consistency in the sprints was the key to Dainese’s breakout Giro victory.

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

Richard Carapaz snatches a mid-race time bonus to move into second place overall at 12 seconds back.

The Italian still suffers from pain in his back after a driver hit him head-on during a training ride in 2019, but he's riding with the best at the Giro.

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

Mathieu van der Poel was also struck on the face with a cork after winning stage 1: ‘It's quite dangerous.’

Aussie sprinter hoping to redeem his uneven Giro d'Italia in Wednesday's long, flat stage that should deliver a bunch sprint.

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

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert vows to keep fighting despite losing history-maker Girmay to freak post-stage eye injury.

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert officials confirm Girmay will not race as a precautionary move after cork strikes eye in post-stage celebration.

Jai Hindley says Wilco Kelderman is 'super unfortunate' but the team is still targeting overall podium.

About as sprinty as sprint stages get.

Biniam Girmay picks up his first grand tour stage win, and the first by a Black African rider, as Juan Pedro López retains the maglia rosa for another day.

The Giro’s leading sprinters will have their sights set on victory in Reggio Emilia six days after Scalea matchup.

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.

Belgian team’s director Valerio Piva says the Eritrean’s victory is huge for him, for his team, for African cycling, and for the sport.

Team DSM’s French leader won’t be letting his guard down on the less challenging stages during the Giro’s second week as he bids to maintain his GC push.

Watch the chaotic, exciting, and history-making sprint finale.

Historic stage-winner missed a post-stage press conference after a cork struck his eye while celebrating on the podium, officials said.

Ineos Grenadiers tries to blow up the race and position Carapaz for the bonus seconds and a run at pink in hectic stage finish.

Van der Poel sat up before the line and gave Girmay the ‘thumbs-up’ sign.

A look at power numbers from Mathieu van der Poel, Thomas De Gendt, and Emmanuel Buchmann in the opening stages of the corsa rosa.

The Trek-Segafredo rider follows a long tradition of surprise early leaders who go deep in a grand tour.

Matt White confirms Simon Yates will continue in Giro and entire team will 'change the chip' to chase stage wins after GC ambitions are lost.

Bahrain-Victorious star shakes off crashes, mishaps to rise to the top at Blockhaus: 'I'd love to grab the pink jersey, and it would be a dream to have it, even if just for one day.'

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

Things are just heating up in 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?

Juan Pedro López may not be expected to win the Giro, but his journey in pink has been a compelling watch.

Fans shouldn't give up on this Giro just yet. There might be some boring moments, but the 2022 Giro isn't even half over. In fact, the fun hasn't even started yet. 

Australian takes VeloNews readers into the action, and his strategy, on the summit finish.

‘This just sucks,’ said the Dutch rider about losing massive time on the stage to Blockhaus.

‘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.

'I didn't have the legs today' — UAE Team Emirates star keeps his podium hopes after suffering up Blockhaus climb.

Aging war horses carry Italian pride into the second week of a Giro d'Italia that's so far without an Italian stage winner.

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

'Landismo' lives — anything is still possible in this Giro as Landa bounces back from crash.

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

Blockbuster stage on the Blockhaus on stage 9 of the Giro d'Italia.

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.

Astana-Qazaqstan climber rides into another breakaway that was doomed by the GC teams: 'It's always the peloton that decides.'

Hindley emerges from season lost to sicknesses and saddlesores to vault into GC contention in race where he first flashed his grand tour potential.