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- Updated: May 6, 2016
APELDOORN, Netherlands (VN) — The 2016 Giro d’Italia starts Friday while planning is underway for 2017, what will be the 100th edition of Italy’s prized stage race. VeloNews understands the race will start in Sardinia, possibly travel to Sicily, and stay completely within the Bel Paese.
La Gazzetta dello Sport organized the first Giro in 1909. It began in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto and after eight stages around Italy’s boot, it finished in Parco Sempione. Italian Luigi Ganna, a cyclist and mason, topped the list of 49 finishers. The Giro continued annually since, only stopping for the wars.
Organizer RCS Sport, now the owner of the pink La Gazzetta dello Sport, wants to mark the 100th edition with a course that stands out and embraces its home country. It is expected to start and remain in Italy and pass through most of the 20 regions.
“The 2016 edition is already in the bag, all we need to do is race the course now,” RCS cycling director Mauro Vegni told VeloNews. “The 2017 course design is well into its design phases. It’s going to be an important year, the 100th edition. We want to have a completely Italian edition.”
The Giro has celebrated anniversaries in the past. In 2011, marking 100 years of Italy’s unification, RCS Sport created a course to trace Giuseppe Garibaldi’s military campaign: …
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