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Marked Giro d'Italia 2025

Marked Giro d'Italia 2025

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The toughest race in the world in the most beautiful country in the world has just started, but gives us a great show. The curtain on the Giro d'Italia 2025 Opened with the big start in Albania, which as expected was not a picnic for the cyclists who fought for the pink jersey. Challenges in seconds and close encounters with curious animals offered us the first wow moments.

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Mads Pedersen is wearing the first pink jersey

Red Bull – Bora and Lidl -Trek lead the start of the Giro

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The Danish world champion in 2019 is the winner of the “Tour of Albania”. Mads Pedersen delivered a historic first for his country with two stage winners and two days in Pink – the first Maglia Rosa of the country in the Giro d'Italia. He met the brand in Durrës and Vlorë (stages 1 and 3) and paid the late Wouter Weylandt, who died tragically in 2011, a warm homage to the deceased Wouters. He is now the clear favorite for the Maglia Ciclamino, but for Pink … his days at the top are probably counted.

A powerful sprinter like him can keep the general classification to the goal in Naples, but the road will climb from the seven levels, and the climbers who have the most sought -after jersey on their shoulders in Rome on June 1 will be the protagonists. Among them seemed to be the brightest in this start of the Giro Primoz RoglicThe Tirana Time Time Trial (level 2) of 21-year-olds came close to the Tirana Time Trial (level 2), who won the 21-year-old. Joshua Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers), British wooden medalists in the Olympic Time trial in Paris, behind Sidepoel, Ganna and van Aert. On this day, the Slovenian, already in 2023 pink, won all of his direct competitors for the general classification and pushed the pink jersey to Pedersen, who thanks to bonuses at the finish line before he flew to Italy.

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Red Bull KM offers a spectacle

During the Giro d'Italia 2025, which started in Albania, the drivers sprinted for bonuses in the Red Bull KM Flying Engine.

Red Bull KM makes his debut at this year's Giro

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The Red Bull KM With his heavy bonuses, his debut celebrated on the streets of Giro d'Italia. The first in Sauz was won by Manuele Tarzzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè), who was in a outlier in the very beginning with other attackers. In the third stage, the fastest in the Special Finish in Himarë Dries de Bondt (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), which now leads the classification for the former Intergiro ahead of Tarzzi and Alessandro Tonelli (Team Polti Visit Malta). The updated classification of the KM -Red Bull and the GC is at the disposal www.giroditalia.it/en/classifliche And apparently a lot will still change until the grand finale in the eternal city, where we remember that Red Bull has a big surprise for all fans.

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The goats took out Mikel Landa

Cycling is a risky sport. Just ask Mikel Landa, one of the big names in the general classification of the Giro, who smashed his Giro d'Italia dreams on the first stage after a brutal crash had brought him out of the race. The Basque driver of the Soudal Quick-Step team has broken a vertebrae and is now pending with weeks of relaxation, with epic climbs and podium fights being traded against calm and rehab. It is a tough memory; In this sport, the border between fame and heartache is razor thin.

Dion Smith (Intermarché – Wanty) also had a close call in the third stage when he had to avoid some curious goats that crossed the street when the peloton came by. A really bizarre moment when the drivers showed their mobility and cool heads that reacted to the unexpected and true acrobats.

Hoping to avoid other narrow refugees are the eyes on Wout van Aertm, who digs deeply after a rough start of his first Giro d'Italia. He was in the race under the weather, but was still in second place on stage 1. With a day off in the books, the Giro fires from Alberobello to Lecce again.

The Belgian champion in a Red Bull helmet that competed in the Tirana time trial chases the pedal stroke of an outdoor man, which he is after an illness that he did not reach at the top of the Giro.

Wout van Aert is looking for the condition of his best days

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The street begins to climb and Primoz Roglic wears the pink jersey

Dutch Casper van Uden (Picnic postnl) grabbed the first sprint victory on Italian soil, but the dominator this first part of the Giro d'Italia was Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), with his arms also in Matera ahead of Edoardo Sambanini (Bahrain victorious) and Thomas Pidcock (Q36.5 per cycling team). Pedersen was in the pink jersey until the seventh level.
Level 6 in Naples was total chaos – a massive crash shook the race and forced among other things Jay HindleyWinner of the Giro d'Italia 2022, because of a head injury and the fracture of the third lumbar vertebrae. Racing was held after the crash and with the slippery streets caused chaos, the jury decided to scrap the GC removal (including Red Bull KM bonus) for the day. But when the dust settled, it was Kaden Groves (Alpecin Deceuninck), who illuminated the Lungomare Caracciolo and expressed the field to win.
Team Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe Team Captain wore the Pink jersey at the beginning of the third stage in Albania.

Primoz Roglic and Team Red Bull – Bora – Hansgrohe wants the pink jersey

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The first conclusion in Tagliacozzo provided fireworks. Juan Ayuso (VAE team Emirates-XRG), who had so far hid in the belly of the peloton, but won the victory and also brought the pink jersey back onto the shoulders of shoulders Primoz Roglicwho finished fourth behind his Spanish rival Isaac del Toro and a reconciling Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers). The GC Big Guns start to beat – and the battle is switched on.

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White street crowns Wout van Aert

Belgium's Wout van Aert won ahead of Isaac del Toro on 9th level 9 of Giro d'Italia 2025.

Wout van Aert was on the stripe

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There was no shortage of spectacle on the weekend, which led to the second day of rest. On the apennations between Abruzzo and Marche, the young Australian Luke Plapp (Jayco Alula) won the perfect Breakaway stage from Giulianova to Castelraimondo. The podium of the day completed Igor Arrieta (VAE team Emirates-XRG) and Tuscan Diego Ulissi (XDS Astana). And for Ulissi it was more than just a podium – he put on the Maglia Rosa and filled a childhood dream.

As expected, a change in the general classification came on the dreaded gravel stage, which unfortunately cost Primoz RoglicAmong other things who have lost the ground against the 21-year-old Mexican Isaac del Toro (VAE team Emirates-XRG) due to a crash and the puncture in the second section of the gravel road. It was a statement ride that was directly aimed at the competitors for the overall victory.

Piazza del Campo applauded the victory of Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease A Bike), who returned to success, where he had started his street career in 2018, and won the beloved Strade -Bianche in 2020. Primož Roglič is now at 2,25 “of the leadership, and if he or one of the other big names in Rome wants to land with pink, the comeback has to start Pisa-Lucca time trial On Tuesday, May 20.

The Belgian champion loves Tuscany and it was here where he started his street career that he found victory again after a difficult time.

Wout van Aert celebrates his first step in the Giro in Siena

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It is easy to say that this victory means a lot without results after a long time, but I almost cannot explain the emotions that I feel. It had to happen here, I am convinced of it.

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