Welcome to Giro del Trentino, a race famously used as start up towards the Giro due to it’s though mountain stages. The teams for the biggest favorite for the Giro Sky and Astana aren’t present at all while Rui Costa isn’t in the lineup for Movistar. We don’t lack any favorites though as Nairo Quintana is in the Movistar lineup. Everybody favorite communist is also present as Kim Po-Ding is looking to crack to cycling “gods� which Quintana being first on his list. basically every team has a rider that should finish in the top 10. Giant’s Ryder Hesjedal, Katusha’s Simon Spilak and Lampre’s Michele Scarponi, Sagan’s Damiano Caruso, Euskaltel’s De las Campos, BMC’s Owniak are just a few examples.



This year the parkour starts of a 13,3 km Team Time Trial which might put some teams on a distance already that maybe be unable to overcome. Teams with only 6 riders might have that problem. We’ll see how Giant, Lampre, IAM, Vacansoleil, Neri Sottoli, and Sojasun overcome this problem.



Stage 2 is a 156,8 km from Limone Sul Garda to San Giacomo di Brentonico, where the riders will have an easy start to the stage as it only consist of 2 small climbs and a brutal end climb which will deside the stage.



Stage 3 is a 169,5 km from Mori to Roncone, where the riders won’t find a flat road all day. the climbs however aren’t challenging enough so we’ll probably see a bunch finish on the end climb.



Stage 4 is a 177,3 km from Val Daone to Monte Bondone. This will easily decide the GC as we have two though climbs, one of which is the end climb. The other climbs however is fairly early so it might not have that much of an effect



Tomorrow we’ll start with the team time trial so watch out for that