The 2024 Giro d’Italia will start from Piedmont and will remain there for the first three stages, presented on Monday 9 October. Which will celebrate two epochal winds for Italian sport. Climbing, in the 1st fraction, Colle Superga on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of the Grande Torino and arriving, in the 2nd, in Oropa where 25 years earlier Marco Pantani achieved one of the most extraordinary feats ever.
In the end everything was confirmed, the Giro d’Italia 2024 will have an extraordinary beginning, a real one “Great Departure” which will start on May 4th on the roads of Piedmont. Not just any roads because the organization has decided to do things perfectly by paying homage in the first stage to the 75th anniversary of the Superga massacre, with the memory of Grande Torino. And then, in the second half, the extraordinary feat accomplished in 1999 by Marco Pantaniarriving in Oropa.
The official presentation of the first stages that RCS Sport has decided for the 2024 Giro did not disappoint expectations: Piedmont will be the great protagonist of the first days of the Corsa rosa with a series of routes that will immediately call into question the ranking men, who are busy in hamlets with different ups and downs and difficulties. A “Great Departure” in name and in fact, with three mountain Grand Prix already in the 1st stage, leaving no room for a prologue dedicated to the sprinters who, however, will find terrain favorable to them to win.
It will be the fourth time in its history that the Giro d’Italia will start from Piedmont: appointment on May 4, 2024 when the first stage will start which will commemorate the 75 years since the tragedy of Grande Torino on the Sanctuary of Superga, with the hill of the same name which will be climbed before descending towards Turin, where the first finish line is set. The first fraction will certainly not be anonymous, looking at it in detail: 136 kilometers from Venaria Reale to the Piedmontese capital and 3 GPM to climb, one of 4th, one of 3rd and one of 2nd category.
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The first difficulty of the 2024 Giro is called Berzano di San Pietro, located 30km from the start, then Colle Superga (3rd category) exactly halfway on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of the Grande Torino, and finally the potentially decisive Colle Maddalena. It is a 2nd category, with a climb over 6km long with average gradients of 7.5% located about twenty kilometers from Turin. Once the first effort is over, here is the 2nd stage, anything but flat: in fact, there will immediately be the first uphill finish.
From San Francesco al Campo you will travel another 150 kilometres, until you reach the Sanctuary of Oropa, a dry climb, 1st category GPM, which will put the Giro’s big names to the test after a short stage, of just 150km and with the second part continuously ascending. Also in this case, there will be another anniversary to mark in red and which closely concerns the world of cycling: we will arrive where twenty-five years earlier Marco Pantani managed to achieve one of his historic victories. One of the most beautiful cycling feats ever written that the Pirate narrated on the pedals in an impossible comeback, between jumps in the chain, extraordinary recoveries and a success that made history.
Then the third stage, to close the Piedmontese triptych, which will finally allow enthusiasts and cyclists to take a breath. We will pass over the hills of Monferrato with the GPM (4th category) in Lu, between Novara and Fossano in 165 kilometers almost free of roughness but which presents a very long final with a constant slight climb which will put both the sprinters of the day and the cross-country skiers who want to carve out a slice of glory for themselves.
2023-10-10 01:34:11
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