Race Preview: The 2016 Giro d’Italia route was announced on Monday in Milan and so Ed Hood has ran an educated eye over the percorso to give us his first look at the Italian Grand Tour. Three individual time trials, seven sprint stages, seven medium mountain stages – two with uphill finishes – and four high mountain stages – three with uphill finishes – and a total of 3,383 kilometres, with 42,200 metres of climbing.All the stars at the Giro presentationIts only October and too early to begin analysing the Giro percorso.Thats like saying its too early to eat frites in Flanders its NEVER too early to eat frites in Flanders.Lets start with the official videos; the races own vid has some wonderful images but the voice-over is dire, as if from a 60s Sword and Sandal B movie.The Gazzetta video starts with a cool clip from the new James Bond movie, Spectre and is actually a commercial for Gillettes new razor which coincidentally is called Spectre and reminds us that as well as history, pink and passion, the Giro is about moolah/dosh/sawbucks/Euros. Thats why the race starts in The Netherlands a huge number of Euros having been electronically transferred into the RCS bank account to facilitate this spectacular but loathed by the support staff side show.Theres a 9.8K FRIDAY chrono in Apeldoorn home to a nice velodrome – to kick things off followed by two sprinter stages with the Stage Two start/finish towns of Nijmegen and Arnhem reversing on...
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