The Route: 143km and 600m of vertical gain. A neutral parade across to the Vatican to meet and greet the new Pope. Then a ...

A final spin in Rome. Today feels like a footnote after yesterday’s Alpine conclusion but the sprinters have had few chances ...

There’s still tomorrow’s stage to win the Giro but those with ambitions – read Richard Carapaz – won’t want to gamble on the last climb of race, better to deliver today and defend tomorrow. Diesel ...

More Alps and the Mortirolo. Gran Bretonico: a humdinger of day, the Alps delivering. It didn’t start out so exciting, it was pouring at the start and several riders crashed out. Josh Tarling slid out ...

A good day for a breakaway, today’s stage leaves the Alps for a tour of Lombardia of sorts. Stage 17 review: a maxi fuga, a giant breakaway with 40 riders up the road at one point before it halved on ...

The Giro goes into the Alps… but gently. This should be a day for the breakaway more than the overall contenders. Borderlines: the breakaway stayed away or at least Kasper Asgreen did, ditching his ...

The third week and the Giro starts today, not that we should dismiss all the sport of the past two weeks. But this is the first real mountain stage and a summit finish too. The Route: 203km and 4,900m ...

A race to Vicenza with a spicy finish thanks to some sharp climbs including the finish on Monte Berico. Uncaged: a torpid stage until the final half hour when teams got to work, creating the ...

The Giro goes to Slovenia, then Italy, then Slovenia, then Italy and then there’s a finish in Slovenia for the sprinters. Purple reign: a lively stage that finished well ahead of schedule. It was ...

A day for the sprinters but the climbing mid-stage is worth more than a glance. Ciuf Ciuf: a massive fight to get in the break, part of it tracked by the lurking Giro train that gets to follow the ...

A time trial stage in Tuscany. After Sunday’s stage shuffled the deck, this will reshape the GC for the week and beyond too. Beef, beef, beef: we’re in the land of the Bistecca alla Fiorentina, the ...

The scenic sterrato stage on the strade bianche to Siena. Plapp turns a corner: an anarchic stage with move after move. Mads Pedersen led a trio that dangled off the front for the best part of an hour ...