The Giro d’Italia 2024 will start in Piedmont
The Giro d'Italia 2024 will start from Piedmont
It was presented in Turin at the Piedmont Skyscraper the Grand Departure of the Giro d'Italia 2024, which will start on Saturday, May 4, from Venaria Reale with arrival in the Piedmont capital. The Piedmont Region will host the first three stages – and the start of the fourth stage – of the 107th edition, which will see the peloton face a number of altitude difficulties from the very beginning.
It starts with the Venaria Reale-Turin, light re-edition of the "city mountain stage" that in 2022 saw Simon Yates triumph. Along the 136-kilometer route there will be three GPMs with passage over the Superga hill exactly 75 years after the tragedy that saw the plane carrying the Grande Torino crash into the hill overlooking the Piedmont capital. The next day will already be uphill finish time with the San Francesco al Campo-Santuario di Oropa (Biella), which will recall the feat accomplished by Marco Pantani at the 1999 Giro d'Italia. The finale, with the Nelva ascent preceding the climb to the Sanctuary, traces that of the 2019 GranPiemonte won by Egan Bernal. The third and final Piedmont stage will be the Novara-Fossano, suitable for sprinters but with a final tear that could cut off the purest sprinters. The caravan will greetà the Piedmont Region on May 7 with the fourth stage that will startà from Acqui Terme.
"Exactly one week after the great event that brought the Head of State, the Prime Minister and all the governors of Italy to Turin, making Piedmont the center of our country’s institutional politics, today we present the departure of the Giro d’Italia, which makes us the center of great sports and in particular cycling, to which we are very attached,” said Piedmont Region President Alberto Cirio. Sports events have a huge return for the economy of our territory, more than 7 times greater than every euro invested to make them happen. And this is for us è the most important fact, becauseé there’è was a time when Turin and Piedmont rejected events, but that time è ended and today we not only welcome them but we go looking for them, earning trust becauseé we know how valuable they are to grow our territory".
Mauro Vegni, Director of the Giro d'Italia, commented: "It will be a Great Start not to be missed. We start with hard and spectacular fractions for which the riders who will aspire to the Maglia Rosa will have to be ready from the start. Both the opening fraction, which traces in some ways one of the most spectacular and appreciated ones of 2022, and the second stage, with a selective finale and the uphill finish in Oropa, could create gaps among the favorites. That will be the Pantani Mountain of the 2024 edition, 25 years after one of the Pirate’s most memorable feats. The third stage also hides pitfalls because the Fossano finish pulls all'insù and it won't be easy for pure sprinters to compete with riders with finisseur characteristics. We will have fun".
