The latest news and race results from the Giro d'Italia, including race reports, expert analysis, start lists, video highlights and previews.
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Dates: Saturday May 6 - Sunday May 28
Stages: 21
Rest days: 3
Length: 3,489km
Climbing meters: 51,400m
Time trial kilometers: 74km
Start: Fossacesia Marina (Italy)
Finish: Roma (Italy)
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.'
With time running out, the Spanish star came up short in his 'last bullet' bid to win a stage in his final Giro d'Italia.
Vincenzo Nibali and João Almeida lose time as Richard Caparaz sees his lead reduced in sprint for bonus seconds.
Marathon mountain stage sees Pozzovivo and Buchmann bumped out of GC contention as Hindley moves to within three seconds of Carapaz.
Many expect the maglia rosa to be decided before the final time trial, but it could still prove decisive for João Almeida and his podium ambitions.
Giro di Hoody: Nothing ever goes to script at the Giro d'Italia, and that's why this week should be one of the best of the season.
From one-hit wonders to doomed superdomestiques, the top of the Giro crop all carry question marks heading into the race's final week.
Sonny Colbrelli continues his recovery and trains with his Bahrain-Victorious teammates on Giro d'Italia rest day.
American team down to five riders as its Giro d'Italia takes another blow.
A look at power numbers from Vincenzo Nibali, Joe Dombrowski, and Emanuel Buchmann after an epic medium mountain stage.
'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.
The Portuguese rider believes that Mikel Landa will be the most dangerous rider in the third week and that the Mortirolo descent will 'blow up' the race.
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.
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.
Carthy turns his goals to stage wins after dropping out of GC contention.
Four riders within 1:01 of pink jersey Richard Carapaz sets the scene for a scintillating third week through the high mountains.
It was a day for the break as the GC riders saved their legs for the final week of the Giro d'Italia.
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.
Ciccone keeps the Trek-Segafredo celebrations rolling with Alpine victory as Carapaz and the GC contenders recover from red-hot Turin stage.
The American says he will still have some freedom to go in breaks despite Vincenzo Nibali's climb up the GC standings.
Alejandro Valverde loses almost eight minutes on GC rivals after suffering a puncture on the Superga descent.
Dutchman crumbles out of grand tour comeback empty handed and empty legged after stage 14 abandon.
Bahrain Victorious rider loses over 30 seconds to his main GC rivals and now sits 59 seconds off the race lead.
Stage 15 to Cogne is not the most difficult mountain stage of the race, but it will be a tough test after the dramatic Turin stage.
López loses grip on maglia rosa after 10 defiant days of Giro d'Italia debut.
He may be out of the GC contest, but Simon Yates now has two stage wins in the bag and will be chasing success in the final week.
The team pulled the race apart with more than 80k to go and delivered Jai Hindley into second place overall.
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.
The BikeExchange rider says that he had been contemplating leaving the Giro d'Italia as he struggled with knee injury.
Richard Carapaz moves into the maglia rosa but Jai Hindley is just seven seconds back as the overall standings massively shift.
Yates goes solo to reverse his bruising defeat on Blockhaus as Richard Carapaz seizes control of the pink jersey.
BikeExchange-Jayco overall challenge may have faded after Simon Yates’ setbacks, but Craddock believes the team can still enjoy success in final week.
'Tom had been struggling with his physical condition for several days' states team as Dutchman abandons early in stage 14.
'Giacomo has not been feeling 100 percent in the second week of the race and has lacked his normal level of power' says Israel-Premier Tech.
Italian stalwart brings wealth of experience but old-school approach to nutrition and tech in push for career-topping Giro result: 'He's not the most up-to-date.'
Arnaud Démare’s Groupama-FDJ lead-out train offers their perspective on one of the most thrilling finishes of the Giro so far.
Hot and humid weather set to make for a tough stage that could see some GC contenders lose time.
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.
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.
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.
The Australian speedster struggled in the sprints at the Giro d'Italia after crashing on day one.
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.
Richard Carapaz snatches a mid-race time bonus to move into second place overall at 12 seconds back.
EF Education-EasyPost rider on the positives of compatriot Girmay’s Giro stage win rather than the disappointment of the bizarre way he departed the race.
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.
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.
Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert vows to keep fighting despite losing history-maker Girmay to freak post-stage eye injury.
'When you touch the bottom you only have more ground to jump back up,' says Jacopo Guarnieri.
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