2016 Giro d'Italia route revealed

[Pro Tour Punditry]

(a bit earlier than planned)
http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/09/news/giro-2016-route-accidentally-leaked_386877

 

[Hont]

Cycling news already picking potential winners...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2016-giro-ditalia-could-tempt-grand-tour-time-trialists/

It's a sign of the times when 61Km of time trialling is considered TT heavy. Tours of the early 2000s routinely had 170Km+

 

[mjr]

Yes, it looks like a bit of enticement from RCS to Dumoulin and Hesjdal, doesn't it? I'm not sure about the other names CyclingNews picks: is Uran quite a good enough time-triallist, or Dennis quite a good enough climber? The other "younger riders" are interesting suggestions but who's expressed an interest in it? Hasn't Kwiatkowski been better later in the season so far?

Today's http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2016-giro-ditalia-race-route-officially-unveiled-in-milan/ gives an entirely different list of names, except for Dumoulin!

Would Nibali really try for a second win at his home Grand Tour and presumably start the Tour de France tired or not at all? http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nibali-ready-to-forgo-tour-de-france-and-target-2016-giro-ditalia/ http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/10/news/nibali-may-be-only-big-to-race-2016-giro_387093 What's Vino going to say about that?

 

[rich p]

It's an admission of relative weakness by Nibali if he does the Giro. He's probably right that he can't beat the other main men in the tdf though. 3 ITTs is a bit odd though. It could balance it a decent climber against a very good one.