Giro d’Italia 2021
1 SATURDAY 8 MAY TURIN > TURIN | INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL
Ten years since Turin hosted the 2011 Grande Partenza to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the unification of Italy, the Giro returns, this time to celebrate the 160th anniversary. The nation will no doubt be united behind Filippo Ganna, who won all three-time trials in last year’s race and will be the hot favourites to do so again on what is a straightforwardly short and flat course. At just 8.6km long, there won’t be any significant gaps between the GC favourites, but the stage will offer a revealing glimpse of who’s arrived at the Giro in good form.
2 SUNDAY 9 MAY STUPINIGI (NICHELINO) > NOVARA | FLAT
Though the Alps loom on the horizon here in Piemonte, there are no nasty surprises in store for the riders as they head north-east through the Po valley towards the town of Novara. A 22-year-old Eddy Merckx won his first-ever Giro stage when the race last visited Novara in 1968, but a flat Parcours today makes this a nailed-on sprint finish.
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