Pezcyclingnews: Eurotrash Giro’16 Thursday!

The 2016 Giro d’Italia route has beed announced and we have a quick look in the Top Story. Reports and video from Binche-Chimay-Binche and the first Superprestige cyclo-cross in Gieten. We preview Sunday’s Paris-Tours, Movistar wins the WorldTour and Ivan Basso retires from racing. Yet more contract news and the Philadelphia International Cycling Classic to upgrade. Another full EuroTrash.TOP STORY: Giro’16 Route AnnouncementThe 2016 Giro dItalia (6-29 May), was unveiled on Monday at EXPO MILANO 2015. The 99th Giro will start in the Province of Gelderland, the Netherlands and will be the Corsa Rosas twelfth start outside Italy. We have a quick look at the Italian Grand Tour:THE ROUTEThe first three stages take place in the Dutch Province of Gelderland. The race starts on Friday 6 May with a 9.8km Individual Time Trial around Apeldoorn, starting in the famous velodrome. Two flat stages follow: Arnehm to Nijmegen (190km) and Nijmegen to Arnhem (189km).The riders and race officials fly to Catanzaro in the south of Italy on Monday 10 May. Stage 4, Catanzaro to Praia a Mare (191km), sees the first climbing of the race. Stage 5, Praia a Mare to Benevento, 233km along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, may very well end in a bunch sprint, while Stage 6, Ponte to Roccaraso (Aremogna), 165km, has the first mountain finish of the 2016 Corsa Rosa. Stage 7, Sulmona to Foligno, holds 210 hilly kilometers in store, while Stage 8, Foligno to Arezzo (Saturday 14 May), tackles two imposing climbs, the...

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