Giro d'Italia 2011

Saturday 7 May till Sunday 29 May



Giro d'Italia 2011
The Giro d'Italia 2011 will be the 94th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours (the others being the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España). The Giro will start on 7 May with a team time trial in Turin to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, when the city served as the first capital of the single state.

Giro d'Italia 2011 live on gazzetta.it (-link-)

Preview
207 riders will participate in this year's Giro d'Italia, which will be extremely exciting for the 21 stages. The full 3496 kilometres containing 40 major mountain climbs, 7 mountain top finishes, among which are the Etna, Grossclockner, Zoncolan and the unpaved Finestra followed by the Sestrière. Moreover, a team time trial, an individual climb time trial and a flat individual effort against the clock are included. This race can only be won by the strongest rider.



Stages and Classification
Giro d'Italia 2011, Stage 1 to Stage 11 and Classification (-link-)
Giro d'Italia 2011, Stage 12 to Stage 21 and Classification (-link-)

Jerseys Giro d'Italia
Winner of the general classification in the Giro d'Italia
Winner of the points classification in the Giro d'Italia
Winner of the mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia
Winner of the young rider classification in the Giro d'Italia

Full list of participating teams
Acqua & Sapone
Ag2r-La Mondiale
Androni Giocattoli
Astana
BMC Racing Team
Colnago-CSF Inox
Euskaltel-Euskadi
Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli
Garmin-Cervélo
Geox-TMC
HTC-Highroad
Lampre-ISD
Leopard Trek
Liquigas-Cannondale
Omega Pharma-Lotto
Quick Step
Rabobank
Team Katusha
Team Movistar
Team RadioShack
Team Saxo Bank-SunGard
Team Sky
Vacansoleil-DCM

Startlist teams (-link-)

Favorites to win the Giro d'Italia 2011
1. Alberto Contador
2. Vincenzo Nibali
3. Michele Scarponi
4. Denis Menchov
5. Joaquin Rodriguez
6. Roman Kreuziger

More live Giro d'Italia 2011 (-link-)

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Team sky. :)

²

goooo Löfkvist :)

I hope Rabo ofcourse :)

VIVA NIBALI :D

Jussi Veikkanen Omega-phrma lotto

Kjell Carlsröm Team sky

Personally I get really bored of watching these cycling races... Every stage takes such a long time. Even watching snooker is more entartaining. However, this is only my opinion ;]

Yes, like golf... But when u love it, it is big thing.

So you don't have the watch whole the rides

like sprint stages in big tours i only watch the last 50 km

Go Contador! :P

Stage 1 Result
Team / Time
1 HTC-Highroad 20' 59"
2 Team RadioShack + 10"
3 Liquigas-Cannondale + 22"
4 Omega Pharma-Lotto + 22"
5 Garmin-Cervélo + 24"
6 Lampre-ISD + 24"
7 Rabobank + 26"
8 Team Saxo Bank-SunGard + 30"
9 Team Sky + 37"
10 Vacansoleil-DCM + 37"

I support them to, but it seems they focus on TDF this year.

Personally I get really bored of watching these cycling races... Every stage takes such a long time. Even watching snooker is more entartaining. However, this is only my opinion ;]

Cycling is like wine, you have to learn to appreciate it ;)

When I'm at home I turn the TV on as background with cycling on. I can listen when something is happening and when the end is near I start really watching. But today is a sprint-race so not that much will happen till the last 30km, or even less.

EDIT: maybe the end won't be that boring today. A nice hill at the end. Although ... still 30km to go after that hill.


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I support them to, but it seems they focus on TDF this year.

Rabo will try to win stages :) And maybe the jersey for mountains classification if someone is feeling great on the right days, that would be nice :)

Now live Giro d'Italia 2011 (-link-)

Stage 2 Result
Rider/ Team/ Time
1 Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) Lampre-ISD 5h 45' 40"
2 Mark Cavendish (GBR) HTC-Highroad s.t.
3 Manuel Belletti (ITA) Colnago-CSF Inox s.t.
4 Roberto Ferrari (ITA) Androni Giocattoli s.t.
5 Borut Božič (SLO) Vacansoleil-DCM s.t.
6 Davide Appollonio (ITA) Team Sky s.t.
7 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Cervélo s.t.
8 Robbie McEwen (AUS) Team RadioShack s.t.
9 Wouter Weylandt (BEL) Leopard Trek s.t.
10 Matteo Montaguti (ITA) Ag2r-La Mondiale s.t.