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Giro d'Italia: The Italian 'Tour De France'
The Giro d'Italia has a good history behind it, like the Tour de France began to publicize a newspaper, just like the Tour de France organizers made the leaders jersey the same color as the paper, yellow paper in France L'Auto and pink in Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport. The first Giro in 1909 and was 2448 km long (the shortest), divided into 8 stages and was won by Italian Luigi Ganna pilot, 127 riders started in Milan, but towards the end, also in Milan, there were only 49 left, this was not the worst edition in 1914 only 8 of the 81 owners managed the full distance.
The winners.
Like the Tour de France and Tour of Spain, the Tour of Italy always has a deserving winner, three drivers have won five times, Alfredo Binda and Fausto Coppi of Italy and the great Belgian Eddy Merckx, Merckx, of course, also won the Tour de France five times and the Vuelta a time. There have been many other "stars" who won the Giro in recent years, the Frenchman Jacques Anquetil and Bernard heroes Hinault and Miguel Indurain of Spain have May 1st Tour de France and Giro more than once. The pilots of the houses have obviously been the big winners, Felice Gimondi, Gino Bartoli, Ivan Gotti, Gilberto Simoni and Paolo Savoldelli has shown that there are ways to win, but the battles between Giuseppe Saronni and Francesco Moser in the 80's are epic. It strange rider who took part in the Giro d'Italia would Alfonsina Morini Strada is the only woman to have ridden in the race and finished!
The race itself.
The Giro d'Italia started off eight times, the farthest either Belgium, Greece and possibly the Dutch city of Groningen, which hosted the opening individual time trial in 2002. When the race is on Italian soil, the main difficulties are often the Alps, Dolomites and Apennines, the Giro is in May so that can get big increases terrible weather, snow, rain and cold temperatures can shape the race and determine the winner.
The future of the Giro d'Italia.
The future of the Giro d'Italia looks good, as the UCI (International Cycling Union's governing body) brought on the Pro Tour all the top 20 teams to assemble the race, before all teams receive only Italian and some foreign teams sponsor interest in Italy, now the race is also broadcast on television, where previously only could be seen in a private station. The 2005 edition was one of the best years, the best teams, best pilots and a hard race course brought to life, for years had become the Giro a procession until the last minute, then the sprinters took over. The climbers had some stages really hard and the team leaders would not work for all the hills or in the time trial, and that was it, now its one of the most exciting stage races there from begging to end.
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