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Giro d’Italia preview: Remco Evenepoel takes fight to Simon Yates, Egan Bernal AFP
Young Belgian rider
Simon Yates and
The 21-year-old, dubbed the heir to the legendary Eddy Merckx, fractured his pelvis after hitting a bridge wall and plunging into a ravine during the Tour of Lombardy in Italy last August.
Saturday’s opening stage is an 8.6km time trial along the River Po in Turin, and after covering 3 480km around the peninsula the Giro finishes back in the north in front of Milan’s Duomo on May 30.
Former Vuelta a Espana winner Yates, who was forced to retire from last year’s delayed Giro after testing positive for Covid-19, returns and warmed up with a win on the Tour of the Alps.
Five key stages on the 2021 Giro d Italia
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07/05/2021 - 04:11 Wout van Aert on the white gravel roads of the Strade Bianche, a section of which has been selected for the 2021 Giro MARCO BERTORELLO AFP/File 2 min
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AFP Sport takes a look at the five key stages of the 2021 Giro d Italia, which runs from May 8-30, before Saturday s opening 8.6km time-trial along the River Po in Turin:
Strade Bianchi to kick up some dust
Stage 11: Perugia - Montalcino, 162km
As the dust settles on the early running and the first rest day, stage 11 through Tuscany will kick up a new cloud on the 35km section that gives the Strade Bianchi classic its name.