The 2020 Tour is delivered to climbers and auctioneers, as La Vuelta did a long time ago, whose identity resides precisely in that daily emotion that drives away riders and sprinters. Faced with the trend of its two cousins, the Giro d'Italia chooses to hold on to tradition and offer a balanced route, suitable for all types of cyclists . Prima the high mountain, of course, because that is its essence, but it will also like the 2020 route who shines against the clock - three individuals with a total of 60 kilometers - and the fastest in the peloton, with six or seven clear opportunities of victory for them. And it will be a long and demanding turn, with seven stages over 200 kilometers . A big difference with the Tour, which has only scheduled one above 200.

At the moment, Peter Sagan has already announced that he will be at the exit of Budapest - 250 kilometers from his native Zilina - on May 9, which will be his first participation in the Corsican rose . It was the triple world champion the great star of the presentation of the tour, above even the current champion, a Richard Carapaz who promised to do “everything possible” to go in 2020 to defend his crown in the Giro, organized by RCS, a company Owner of the Editorial Unit, editor of EL MUNDO.

Although the mountain will splash almost the entire route, the last week will undoubtedly be the decisive one, as usual in the Giro. The race will start in Hungary, where three stages will be held, the time trial of the first day of 9.5 kilometers - with a demanding final - and two days for sprinters. From there, the Giro will move to Sicily without a rest day in between. There they await a first opportunity for auctioneers in Agrigento and subsequently the ascent to Etna, back to the tour after his absence this year. The first week, already in the peninsula, will be completed with two affordable days and the arrival in Camigliatello Silano after 22 kilometers uphill.

For multipurpose corridors

The second week includes two stages for sprinters, another two for multipurpose hunters or runners, the longest time trial of the edition (33.7 kilometers with enough slides) and a hard dolomitic day as a shot. A stage that will start from a military base in Rivolto and end in Piancavallo, the fourth ascent of the day.

After the rest day on Monday, May 25, the infernal last week will arrive. To begin with, a leg-breaker stage with three laps to a circuit that includes the Ragogna, three kilometers at 10.4%. Subsequently, two consecutive Alpine stages, both rated five stars by the organization and arriving high: Forcela Valbona, Monte Bondone, Passo Durone and Madonna di Campiglio in the first; and Campo Carlo Magno, Passo Castrin, Passo Stelvio -Cima Coppi of this edition- and Laghi di Cancano in the second.

251 kilometers completely flat will bridge the queen stage, an infernal journey with 6,000 meters of accumulated slope in which the platoon will face the Agnello, the French Izoard and Montgenèvre before the final ascent to Sestriere . 16.5 kilometers of flat individual time trial through the streets of Milan will put the closure to a Giro only suitable for all and in turn for almost no one because of the hardness it proposes.

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