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)
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.
The Giro’s leading sprinters will have their sights set on victory in Reggio Emilia six days after Scalea matchup.
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.'
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.
'I was hoping to do the Giro d’Italia this season, but coming back from that disappointment I stayed on it' says Irish climber.
‘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.
'Landismo' lives — anything is still possible in this Giro as Landa bounces back from crash.
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.
Ineos Grenadiers applied the pressure on the Blockhaus summit but Carapaz finds company from Landa and Bardet.
Simon Yates and Wilco Kelderman see their hopes fade after an epic day at the Giro d'Italia.
British climber dropped on the final climb, loses minutes to GC rivals.
Australian takes the stage win on a key GC day that sees Simon Yates drop out of contention.
British rider looking to move up ahead of second Giro d'Italia rest day.
Watch as the veteran Lotto-Soudal rider wins from the break to ease his team's woes at the Giro d'Italia.
Rising Dutch star learning from French foil in final season before shift to Ineos Grenadiers in 2023.
A decade after winning out of a massive Giro breakaway, De Gendt proves he's still as wily as ever.
Eritrean ace goes toe-to-toe with Mathieu van der Poel to score a fifth top-5 in stunning grand tour debut.
The best Portuguese GC prospect in a generation is taking aim for the final podium, and says Sunday's Blockhaus is a key moment of the Giro.
The first decisive summit finish in the 2022 Giro d'Italia will tell everyone who has the legs to win the pink jersey.
Lawson Craddock says BikeExchange-Jayco morale high ahead of Blockhaus: 'We are in a really, really good place.'
Lotto-Soudal rider wins from four-rider sprint.
A story on how to insert yourself in a Grand Tour gruppetto.
Second-youngest rider in the race Ben Tulett entering 'unexplored territory' with key role in very first grand tour.
From what I’ve seen Yates, Bardet, Landa, and Carapaz are all going well. They all like to be aggressive, so stage 9 could be really explosive.
Koen Bouwman takes his first-ever grand tour stage victory in frenetic day of racing.
UAE Team Emirates is one of the few teams to bring both a sprinter and a GC candidate.
Longtime friends and training buddies pull off barnstorming breakaway victory three days after team GC ambitions collapsed on Etna summit.
Trek-Segafredo hits second in stage and defends pink in big ride ahead of decisive Blockhaus stage for Giulio Ciccone.
Photo Vault: start of stage 21 of the 1989 Giro d'Italia.
After winning three of the past four pink jerseys, Ineos Grenadiers keeping lid on early action ahead of ‘big fight’ looming in final week.
Juan Pedro López defends the overall race lead and continues on in the maglia rosa.
All-rounder is riding support during this Giro d'Italia but is hoping to see his chances to lead for Ineos Grenadiers this season.
Cavendish and trainer Vasilis Anastopoulos not considering Tour preparation program as they go all-in for three full weeks at Giro d'Italia.
The Danish rider developed a fever overnight and leaves the race on doctors' orders.
Frenchman pens new two-year deal during the Giro d'Italia.
Colombian ace relegated in bunch sprint after leaning into rival sprinter in chaotic finale.
'For sure we'll see a big battle between GC riders.' Buzzsaw-shaped stage packs potential for ambush, attack, and sending sprinters out the back.
Sprint stars go shoulder to shoulder in an exciting finale that nearly saw a crash on the front of the race.
‘With 120km to go, we were wondering if we would wake up in time for the finale.’ Démare emerges from slumber to deliver sizzling sprint victory.
Dario Cataldo, Jacopo Guarnieri, and Salvatore Puccio laud Nibali's career and his decision ‘to retire at the top.’
The 2012 Olympic champion was riding a gold Wilier behind a team van along the route of Thursday's Giro d'Italia stage.
Cataford is the lone Canadian in the 2022 Giro and promises to ride into more breakaways on key stages.
The Australian sprinter misses out by the smallest of margins as Arnaud Démare takes stage 6 in a photo finish
Juan Pedro López continued in the overall race leader's jersey after lone rider breakaway.
The Giro boss says that the Italian, who is retiring at the end of the year, was a "once-in-a-generation" rider.
EF Education-EasyPost GC contender back in grand tour action and perfectly poised after flaming out early in 2021 Vuelta a España.
The unrelated riders create their own GC classification at the Giro d'Italia.
'You cannot decide something like that within 24 hours,' says Marc Reef.
Groupama-FDJ sprinter distanced Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan mid-stage, dropped Mathieu van der Poel in traffic, and bested Fernando Gaviria at the line.
The rough road from Hungary to Sicily.
A complete Shimano build with two common WorldTour tweaks.
Colombian ace second in bunch sprint after clearing key climb only to have a derailleur issue at the line.
Dutch rider hits the deck after a tangle with a spectator on the side of the road.
Team DSM star braces for next major GC tussle: ‘There could be some big gaps there.’
Groupama-FDJ help tow the big French sprinter over the stage's hard climb that proved too much for several key rivals.
Cavendish: 'We knew that was going to happen. It was a bonus if we could sprint today but we had to try.'
The 'Shark of Messina' won all three grand tours and is the only rider to stop the Sky machine at its peak.
Two-time Giro d'Italia winner confirms the news at the end of stage 5.
Frenchman takes top honors as Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan get distanced on day's climb.
Groupama-FDJ took a true gang of giants to the Giro to launch Arnaud Démare to sprint success. The problem with being massive? All those mountains.
British rider links up with a new agent as he weighs up his options in the transfer market.
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