Iconic ph♒otos from the previous 10+ years of the Italian Grand Tour
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Giro d'Italia 2018 countdown: 6 days to go - Re🐬tro gallery(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A💃 sign on the road remembering Wouter Weylandt who tragicall🦹y died during the 2011 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
𝔉The most costly wheel change for ✤Richie Porte in 2015(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador heads to hospitaꦗl after dislocating his shoulder during the 2015 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Despite plenty of travails, Alberto Contador wins the 20🌃15 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nai𒅌ro Quintana leads compatriot Rigoberto Uran up the Monte Zoncolan at the 2014 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The snow-covered descent of the Stelvio in 2014, look closely enough and y🐲ou can see the red flag(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Vincenzo Nibali wins stage 20 of the 2013 Giro d'Italia and claims🌠 overall victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michele Scarponi complete🔯s the 2012 prologue in pink after Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2011 victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cadel Evans wins a muddꦑy stage ൲7 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador ✱struggles on the Colle delle Fiꦕnestre in 2015 but keeps the pink jersey(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Iljo Keisse claimed a rare breakaway win on the final st🐓age of the 2015 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Mikel Landa gets some assistance🎉 before abandoning the 2016 Giro d'Italia on stage 10(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Taylor Phinney wears pink during the 2012 Giro d'🃏Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A muddy trip on the strade bianc꧑he at ♛the 2010 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Ryder Hesjedal becomes the first Canadian Grand Tour winner at the 2012 Giro ღd'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fernando Gaviria racked up a 💖whopping fo🌺ur stage wins at the 2017 Giro(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Geraint Thomas talks to the press after being ꧙in a crash caused by a motorbike on stage 9 of the 2017 race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Dumoulin wins the 2017 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Vincenz♐o Nibali attacks on stage 20 of the 2016 Giro d'Italia, en-route to overall victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A distraught Steven Kruijswijk after he loses the pink jerse꧃y due to a crash on stage 19 of the 2016 Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2016 Giro d'Italia GC🦄 favourites climb the Colle dell’Agnꦇello on stage 19(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Germany's Jan Ullrich during the (Image credit: AFP)
No time for the Gir🌌o peloton to enjoy t💫he stunning view.(Image credit: AFP)
You can't race the Giro without your fair share of tunnels to negotia🍰te.(Image credit: AFP)
Alberto Contador partakes of a strawberry milkshake at the G✤iro.(Image credit: AFP)
Giro leader Alb🐭erto Contador tackles the Plan de Corones mountain time trial, con൲ducted on a dirt road.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro peloton bombs a descent(Image credit: AFP)
Riders make their way from Verona to Alpe dꦉi Pampeago during stage 14🐠 of the 2008 Giro.(Image credit: AFP)
The ꧙devil is a frequent ℱvisitor to the Giro d'Italia as well as the Tour de France.(Image credit: AFP)
Mark Cavendish won his first 🐲ever Grand Tour stage during the 2008 Giro d'Italia.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro peloton passes a sea of poppies.(Image credit: AFP)
Giovanni Visconti hasඣ spent some time in the maglia rosa.(Image credit: AFP)
Italy's Alessandro Bertolini shows the emotion involved with winning aꩵ stage in one's home Grand Tour.(Image credit: AFP)
2𝓀007 Giro champion Dani🌠lo Di Luca in a sea of pink confetti.(Image credit: AFP)
Alessandro Petacchi was no stranger 🍸to 🌞stage victories in his home Grand Tour.(Image credit: AFP)
If push comes to shove, this could probably serve as a neutral bike for someone in the Giro p♑eloton.(Image credit: AFP)
The high mountains in t꧅he Giro frequently mean cold, snowy weather.(Image credit: AFP)
B𓆉radley Wiggins blazes to victory in the opening stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia on theꦓ streets of Amsterdam.(Image credit: AFP)
Tifosi are out in force to witness the uniquꦯe spectacle of the dirt road Plan de Coro﷽nes mountain time trial.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro d'Italia p൲arcours brings the peloton through beautiful villages thro✅ughout the country.(Image credit: AFP)
The 2013 Giro d'Italia wil🅘l pay tribute to Marco Pantani, shown here in the maglia rosa at the 1999 edition.(Image credit: AFP)
Fifteen years after Marco Pantani attacked on the Galibier (pictured) to set up his ℱ1998 Tour de France victory, the Giro dꦕ'Italia pays tribute with a summit finish on the Galibier.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro peloto𒀰n races past an old Roman amphitheater in th🦂e northern Croatian Adriatic town of Pula.(Image credit: AFP)
A historic day for Canada as Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) has won the 2012 Giro d'Italia꧋.(Image credit: AFP)
Another day in Italy, anothe🧸r day of stunning scenဣery at the Giro d'Italia.(Image credit: AFP)
T🅰he multi-talented Adriano Malori plays the acc♏ordion while resplendent in the maglia rosa.(Image credit: AFP)
RadioShack-Nissan riders observe a minute of silen♉ce at the 2012 Giro in memory of B༒elgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt.(Image credit: AFP)
Taylor Phinney (BMC) won the opening sta✃ge of the 2012 Giro, the young American's first Grand Tour stage victory, and earned the maglia rosa.(Image credit: AFP)
The white gravel roads of Italy make for unique racing at the ꦡGiro d'Italia.(Image credit: AFP)
The Leopard Trek team, along with Tyle🌳r Farrar, pay tribute to fallꩲen colleague Wouter Weyland, who died in a crash the day before at the 2011 Giro.(Image credit: AFP)
David Arroyo Duran (Caisse D'epargne) crosses the fin♏nish line of the 2010 Gir👍o of Italia in the Arena of Verona(Image credit: AFP)
Stefano Garze🏅lli, king of the 2010 Plan de Corones mountain time trial.(Image credit: AFP)
Riccardo Ricco' (R) crosses the finish line in front ൲of Leonardo Piepoli.(Image credit: AFP)
Italy'ꦜs history is never far from the Giꦰro parcours.(Image credit: AFP)
Absolu👍te pandemonium took place at the finish of stage 11 in the 2007 Giro where rain-slickened streets causes scores of riders to slide, rather than ride, across the line.(Image credit: AFP)
A stage for the ages - world champion Cadel Evan𒆙s and Alexander Vinokourov on the muddy strade bianche during the 2010 Giro.(Image credit: AFP)
There never seems to be a shorta൲ge of cycling statuary along the Giro ღd'Italia route.(Image credit: AFP)
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano applauds 2009 Gღiro d'Italia champion Denis Menchov.(Image credit: AFP)
Alberto Contador has finished the final stage of the 2008 Giro d'Italia and celebrates his overall victory꧂.(Image credit: AFP)
Approximately two weeks after Mark Cavendish won his first ever Grand Tour stage in the 2008 Giro, Andre Greipel did as well during stage 1꧃7 with Cavendish completing the Hi𓃲gh Road 1-2 finish.(Image credit: AFP)
Probably more than a few members of the Giro d'Italia peloton would like the keys to thi⭕s Fer🐻rari.(Image credit: AFP)
Marco Pinotti slip🃏s into t🦄he maglia rosa after stage 8 of the 2007 Giro d'Italia.(Image credit: AFP)
Alessandro Petacchi has won 22 Giro d'It𓄧alia stages in hisဣ career.(Image credit: AFP)
Giro d'Italia leader Ivan Basso pays his respects at the Madonna del Ghisal💦lo chapel.(Image credit: AFP)
The 2006 Giro dꩲ'Italia podium (L-R): G💯ilberto Simoni, 3rd; Ivan Basso, 1st; José Enrique Gutiérrez, 2nd(Image credit: AFP)
Ther🍒e's usually never a shortage of sun and scenery during the Giro d'Italia.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro peloton negotღiates a switchback during stage 10 of the 2006 edition.(Image credit: AFP)
Nobody's won more Giro d'Italia stages than Mario Cipollini, shown here resplendent in zebra-striped Acqua𝔍 & Sapone kit.(Image credit: AFP)
Maglia rosa wearer Vincenzo Nibali would lose the Giro lead at the 2010 edition on the treacherously slick strade🃏 bianche.(Image credit: AFP)
In 2010, one yearꦅ after a devastating earthquake in the Abruzzo region, the effects were stillꩲ very much apparent.(Image credit: AFP)
Danilo Di Luca in the maglia rosa during the 2007 Giro, which the ✅Italian won overall.(Image credit: AFP)
Stunning s�ܫ�cenery on Sardinia during the 2007 Giro d'Italia.(Image credit: AFP)
Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) eyes world c𒉰hampion Paolo Bettini (QuickStep) during the team presentaitons for the 2007 Giro, which took pla🦩ce on an aircraft carrier off of Sardinia.(Image credit: AFP)
🐻While racing in the high mountains at the Giro, passes are frequꦯently still lined with snow.(Image credit: AFP)
One day after the birth of his son▨ Santiago, Ivan Basso payᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs tribute with a stage win at the Giro.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro peloton negotiates a stage ဣin the Italian Alps.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro d'Italia peloton rolls along amidst a terraced🏅 hillside.(Image credit: AFP)
Ivan ✅Basso time trials past the leaning tower of Pisa.(Image credit: AFP)
The Giro peloton rides on the legendary Spa Francochamps circuit, home of the Formula💫 One Belgian Grand♛ Prix.(Image credit: AFP)
The early stages of the 2006 Giro d'Italia took plℱace in Belgium.(Image credit: AFP)
Aussie Robbie McEwen won ꦕ12 Giro d'Italia stages during his career.(Image credit: AFP)
Stefano Garzelli (Mapei) outsprints F🌠rancesco Casagrande to win stage 2 of the 2002 Giro, a victory which moved Garzelli into the maglia rosa.(Image credit: AFP)
The countdown to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia continues 🤡with t꧅he official start in Jerusalem less than a week away.
Organisers RCS have lived up to their reputation by delivering a spectacular route with climbs such as the Monte Zoncolan set to shape the fight for the o♚verall classification.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Dumoulin (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Sunweb) returns to the race to defend his title but he will be up against the four-time Tour de France champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome (Team Sky), who is attempting 🀅the Giro-Tour double this season. There are a whole host of other pretenders to the throne with Miguel Angel Lopez heading up Astana’s challenge, while Esteban Chaves and Simon Yates are there for Mitchelton-Scott. George Bennet (LottoNL-Jumbo), Michael Woods (EF Education First-Drapac) and Domenico Pozzovivio (Bahrain-Merida) will also be ones to watch.
This is the 101st edition of the Giro d’Italia and Cyclingnews has delved into the archives and put together some images from the⛦ past 20 years of the race.
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