There is still a week for second thoughts, turnarounds, escapes and sudden and unexpected insertions. But ten days from the start of the Giro d’Italia 104 (in Turin, May 8) the list of starters (from 23 different teams) has finally been made official by RCS Sport. It will be these 183 (from 34 nations) to battle along i 3,479.9 kilometers of the pink race divided into 21 stages and seasoned by 47 thousand meters in altitude.
In the challenge for the final victory, all the favors of the prediction agree on Egan Bernal, the Colombian who dominated the 2019 Tour de France and captain of a Team Ineos big names: with him the Italians Ganna (very popular for the two time trials and the first pink jersey), Puccio and Moscon, climbers Sivakov, Sosa and Martinez and the wild card Castroviejo. Bernal, a very clear class, comes from a not brilliant 2020 and has decided to arrive in Turin after almost two months without races, directly from Colombia. Having fractured his wrist in training last April 14, Vincenzo Nibali (two Tours of Italy won) will do everything to be at the start and seems to be on the road to recovery. In his Trek-Segafredo space, among others, for the second points Mollema and Ciccone.
Top captains are Simon Yates, who just won the Tour of the Alps, 2020 Australian surprise Jai Hindley (who was second in Milan after the no holds barred fight with Geoghegan Hart) who will share the ranks with Frenchman Romain Bardet , twice on the podium of the Tour de France. Two big names also for Deceuninck: the highly anticipated Belgian super talent Remco Evenepoel – returning after the serious accident of the 2020 Giro di Lombardia – and Joo Almeida, 15 days in the pink jersey and fourth in the final classification of the 2020 Giro. for Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao, Aleksandr Vlasov, Emanuel Buchmann, Hugh Carthy, Daniel Martin, George Bennett and for veteran Domenico Pozzovivo.
In an eclectic race like the Giro, brave stage hunters find fertile ground. Space then to Giulio Ciccone, Ruben Warrior and Gianni Moscon, to Matej Mohoric and the old man Giovanni Visconti, to the permanent fugitive Fausto Masnada, to Luis Leon Sanchez and the Emirati couple Formolo e Ulysses. Ganna, Campenaerts and Van Emden, winner of the final time trial of the 2017 Giro, are in contention for the time trials of Turin and Milan.
Here is the list of the 23 teams present with the main members:
• Ineos Grenadiers: Egan Bernal, Filippo Ganna
• AG2R Citroen Team: Tony Gallopin, Andrea Vendrame
• Alpecin-Fenix: Tim Merlier, Dries De Bondt
• Androni Toys – Sidermec: Jefferson Cepeda, Simon Pellaud
• Astana – Premier Tech: Aleksandr Vlasov, Luis Leon Sanchez
• Bahrain Victorious: Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao
• Bardiani CSF Faizan: Giovanni Visconti, Enrico Battaglin
• Bora – Hansgrohe: Peter Sagan, Emanuel Buchmann
• Cofidis: Elia Viviani, Natnael Berhane
• Deceuninck – Quick-step: Remco Evenepoel, Joo Almeida
• EF Education-Nippo: Hugh Carthy, Ruben Guerreiro
• Eolo-kometa Cycling Team: Luca Wackermann, Vincenzo Albanese
• Groupama – FDJ: Tobias Ludvigsson, Rudy Molard
• Intermarch – Wanty – Gobert Matriaux: Jan Hirt, Andrea Pasqualon
• Israel Start-Up Nation: Daniel Martin, Alex Dowsett
• Jumbo-Visma: George Bennett, Dylan Groenewegen
• Lotto Soudal: Caleb Ewan, Thomas De Gendt
• Movistar Team: Marc Soler, Dario Cataldo
• Team BikeExchange: Simon Yates, Mikel Nieve
• Team DSM: Jai Hindley, Romain Bardet
• Qhubeka Assos Team: Giacomo Nizzolo, Domenico Pozzovivo
• Tracks – Segafredo: Vincenzo Nibali, Bauke Mollema
• Team UAE Emirates David formolam Diego Ulysses
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