Giro d'Italia St 21
Roma to Roma
Sunday 27th May, 115kms
The final stage, a 10-lap crit around the streets of Rome that will almost certainly end in a sprint finish. The race is decided by now, but who will take the final stage glory?
Giro d'Italia St 20
Susa to Cervinia
Saturday 26th May, 214kms
The penultimate stage, and what a stage they have saved right for the end of the race.. The Queen stage across the Alps with three brutal climbs coming in the last 84kms, climbing and descending over 4,000m.
Giro d'Italia St 19
Venaria Reale to Bardonecchia
Friday 25th May, 184kms
The penultimate stage in the mountains, the final summit finish, the second last chance to make a difference to the top 10 order. And what a beast they face today with over 3,500m of vertical climbing - it should be explosive.
Giro d'Italia St 18
Abbiategrasso to Pr. Nevoso
Thursday 24th May, 196kms
This is an interesting stage.. it's long at 196kms, especially when you consider that the first 176kms of it are pretty boring and uneventful.. but then it bursts in to life in the final 20kms as they head skywards to the finish at the ski station of Prato Nevoso.
Giro d'Italia St 17
Riva del Gardo to Iseo
Wed. 23rd May, 155kms
Just like in stage 17 last year, this is a day that screams out breakaway, it has the perfect rolling profile for it and most GC men and their teams will be keeping their powder dry for the tough stages to come.
Giro d'Italia St 16
Trento to Rovereto
Tuesday 22nd May, 34.5kms
The second TT of the race, a crucial point for some who will be fighting for overall victory or even a top 10 place. It's mostly flat, but gets a little hilly near the end, a perfect course for powerhouses like Tom Dumoulin.
Giro d'Italia St.15
Tolmezo to Sappada
Sunday 20th May, 176kms
This could be one of the best stages of the race, a wild and brutal run over the Dolomites just on the Italian side of the Austrian border. The start and finish are only 45kms apart, but they go off on a 176kms loop of the Dolomites
Giro d'Italia St 14
SV Al Tagliamento - Zoncolan
Saturday 20th May, 186kms
Stage 14 in 2017 saw them take on the mythical climb to Oropa, this year they go even more mythical with a finish on the hardest climb in Europe, the Monte Zoncolan. Get those crampons on boys..
Giro d'Italia St 13
Ferrara - N. Della Battaglia
Friday 18th May, 180kms
Almost a carbon copy of stage 13 of last year, and almost a carbon copy of yesterday's stage. This is a boring flat stage, with a little hill thrown in 20kms from the finish to spice things up.. If it doesn't we're looking at a sprint finish.
Giro d'Italia St 12
Osimo to Imola
Thurs 17th May, 214kms
A long, hot day on the coast of Italy, taking them north towards Rimini and then inland to the F1 track at Imola where they will do a final circuit up and over the Tre Monti climb.
Giro d'Italia St 11
Assisi to Osimo
Wednesday 16th May, 156kms
Stage 11 takes the riders north-east from Assisi to Osimo, on a rolling, punchy course that could be perfect for a breakaway. They pass through Folittrano on the way, home of Michele Scarponi who died out training just over a year ago.
Giro d'Italia St 10
Penne - Gualdo Tadino
Tuesday 15th May, 239km
The longest stage of this year's Giro at 239kms, and it's an interesting stage in that it could be won by a break, but also the stronger sprinters should fancy it if their teams can control it over the lumpy terrain as the last 20kms are flat.
Giro d'Italia St 9
Pesco Sanita - Gran Sasso
Sunday 13th May, 225kms
This stage has a very similar profile to stage 9 of last year's race which finished with the sharp ascent to Blockhaus when Nairo Quintana rode away from Thibaut Pinot and Tom Dumoulin.
Giro d'Italia St 7
Pizzo - Praia a Mare
Friday 11th May, 159kms
A stage for the sprinters, can't really see it finishing any other way. It's not too long thankfully to be sitting watching hours of flat nothingness, but still 159kms long, and 140kms before anything interesting will happen.
Giro d'Italia St 8
Praia a Mare - M. Di Mercogliano
Sat 12th May, 209kms
A similar stage to stage 9, with a mostly flat run in, a little bump around a third of the way in and a charge up in to the clouds for the last 20kms. The last 10kms map looks like a pile of dropped spaghetti with 20 hairpins to negotiate.
Giro d'Italia St 6
Caltanisetta - Etna
Thurs 10th May, 164kms
The final of the three stages on Sicily is definitely the most challenging with a trip up Mount Etna again, but this time they tackle it from an entirely new direction, all the way to the Etna Astrophysical Observatory.
Giro d'Italia St 5
Agragento to Santa Ninfa
Wed 9th May, 153kms
The second stage on the island of Sicily is similar to stage 4, with a few more tougher hills thrown in to the mix. The finish is also similar with a hill inside the last 2kms, but this time it eases back to a flat run to the line.
Giro d'Italia St 4
Catania - Catalgirone
Tuesday 8th May, 198kms
So after three stages in Israel, the Giro d'Italia proper starts, but they are not yet in Italia proper, rather they take a stepping stone approach to Italy via three stages in Sicily.
Giro d'Italia St 3
Be'er Shiva - Eilat
Sunday 6th May, 229kms
Stage 3 in Israel sees them take on something like a stage of the Tour of Dubai when they spend the majority of the stage riding through a desert in 26 degree heat, ahead of an inevitable sprint finish.
Giro - Other Markets
A selection of other bets that caught my eye..
I've done the Favourites and who I think will win the Sprints jersey and the KOM jersey. Here I take a look at some of the other markets that are available such as Team Classification, young riders and more.
Giro d'Italia Contenders
Dumoulin at the double?
Tom Dumoulin faces a big challenge this year to defend his Giro d'Italia title, with Chris Froome returning to Italy for the first time since 2010, a year he was thrown out of the race on stage 19 for holding on to a motorcycle.. He must have dropped his inhaler or something..
Giro D'Italia St 1
Jerusalem - Jerusalem
Friday 4th May, 9.7km ITT
The Giro starts on a Friday again this year to allow for the transfer back to Italy from its controversial starting point in Israel. And unlike last year, we do get an individual TT to start the race, over a wavy 9.7km course.
Giro d'Italia St 2
Haifa - Tel Aviv
Saturday 5th May, 167kms
The second stage of the Giro in Israel sees them head up along the coast of the Mediterannean, on a stage that should end in a bunch sprint in Tel Aviv. That is, if the winds coming in off the sea don't cause havoc first!
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