The provisional entry list of the 103rd edition of the Giro d’Italia, organized by RCS Sport and scheduled from 3 to 25 October, has been announced.
The Corsa Rosa will see many of the best riders in the world at the start in Sicily: sprinters, finisseurs, time trial specialists and GC riders will compete over the 21 stages from Palermo to Milan, comprising three individual time trials, six stages of low difficulty suitable for sprinters, six of medium difficulty and six of high difficulty.
Among the riders who will try to win the Trofeo Senza Fine (Never Ending Trophy) are Vincenzo Nibali (two-time winner of the Corsa Rosa, in 2013 and 2016); Geraint Thomas (winner of the Tour de France in 2018), Simon Yates (winner of the Vuelta a España in 2018 and winner of this year’s Tirreno-Adriatico), Jakob Fuglsang (winner of the 2020 edition of Il Lombardia), with teammates Miguel Angel Lopez (on the podium of the Giro and Vuelta in 2018) and Aleksandr Vlasov, as well as Rafal Majka (second in the last Corsa dei Due Mari), Ilnur Zakarin and Giulio Ciccone (the Maglia Azzurra of the 2019 Corsa Rosa).