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- Updated: May 10, 2016
PRAIA A MARE, Italy (VN) — The Giro d’Italia re-started Tuesday on home roads in Calabria, but it is still celebrating one of the “best ever” foreign starts in the Netherlands. Cycling director Mauro Vegni said that Apeldoorn and its surrounding Gelderland province set a new benchmark for hosting grand tour starts.
This morning in Arnhem, life returned to normal in the small Dutch town that hosted stage 3. In Italy, Vegni saw off the rest of the Giro, which will head from the south in Italy’s boot to Torino three weeks later. Fond memories, however, remained.
“This was the best of the grand tour starts that I’ve done, and I’ve been helping the Giro d’Italia go abroad since 1996, when we went to Greece,” Vegni told VeloNews.
“Apeldoorn and the surrounding areas worked hard, and that was the result. I don’t want to take away from the other hosts, but this was the best for me.”
Dimitri Bonthuis, media officer for the Giro in the Gelderland province, told VeloNews that the local organizer …
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