The organizers of the Giro d'Italia have officially confirmed that the race will start in Turin, Piedmont, in 2024, and that it will be the 4th and 4th race in its history, after 2 years. The full route will be published this Friday.

As was widely rumored, the race will kick off on Saturday, May 4 at the mass start stage from Venaria Reale on the outskirts of the city and will end in the city center, Stage 2 will end at the summit of Oropa in the north of the Piedmont region.

Stage 1 is set to be a repeat of the 2022 stage of the hills through Turin, but with fewer climbs, Stage 2 will be the earliest major summit test for the Giro d'Italia since it began in Sicily in 1989 and climbed Mount Etna on Day 2.

The GIRO D'Italia had already started at VENARIA Reale in 2011 with a team time trial won by HTC-HighRoad. Held in Turin 10 years later in 2021, this stage was an individual time trial in which Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadier) won for 2 consecutive years.

La Gazzetta dello Sport notes that the start date is just 75 years after the major air tragedy at the hill of Superga, on March 4th, 1949, a plane carrying a Turin football team, known locally as Grande Torino, crashed on a climb on the outskirts of the city and killed all 31 people on board. The winner of the year, Faust Koppi, dedicated the victory to Ezio Loic, the midfielder who was on the plane.

"The 107th edition will be a tribute to Grande Torino," the paper states, and the first stage will be only 136 km long and will include a Superga climb along the way to honor their memory and the anniversary of the crash. Cat. 2 Colle Magdalena was able to determine the winner and the first race leader at the top 20km from the finish.

The finish of Oropa is also an anniversary as it takes place 25 years after Marco Pantani's famous victory in the climb of Piedmont. Oropa was last tackled at the 2017 Giro d'Italia and became the only cat to win that year's champion, Tom Dumoulin. The 3 climbs that precede it will probably be a Stage 2 crunch moment.

Stage 3 will take place in Piemonte and will run south from Novara to Fossano and could end with a bunch of sprints before Stage 4 starting from Acqui Terme.

Piemonte has a strong cycling history and has professional current crops from the region such as Ganna, Fabio Felline, Alessandro Covi, Matteo Sobrero and Niccolo Bonifazio. Italian cycling legend and multiple Giro winners Faust Koppi, Constance Girardengo, Giovanni Brunello, Franco Balmamion, Giuseppe Saloni are also Piedmont people.

More rumored details of the 2024 route also appeared on Cicloweb on Monday. The race with an emphasis on the time trial appears to be set to continue for another year, with the race with the Clock in Perugia later in the first week, and the race at Desenzano towards the end of the second.

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) is very unlikely to take part in next year's Giro for three consecutive years, but such a high number of time trials up to 70 km in total could attract other top specialists. Apart from the rise of Oropa on the first weekend, the stage of Prati di Tivo in the Apennines is rumored as the last curtain of the first week, and the rise of the climb of Montegrappa is also likely to be at the third end.

Even more climbing is characteristic immediately after the second rest day in Livigno, and the end of the summit in Montepana is preceded by the ascent of Stelvio, this year's Cima Coppi, and the third

as in 2023, the race will be held in Italy for the final sprint stage through the streets of Rome on Sunday 5-26 next year. It ends with a long move from northern Italy.

The entire 2024 Giro d'Italia route will be announced in full as part of the Gazzetta Dello Sport Festival in the city of Trento on 10/13. The route of the first Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminir organized by Rcs will also be revealed on 10/13.

Details of the Giro d'Italia Donne, as is known to the public, the current advance information is only the start and end dates of 7/7 to 14th.