Women's Predictor League: Giro Rosa **STARTS FRIDAY 16:15 CEST**

Not to tread on Yeehoo's toes, I hope, but I thought I'd post a thread in case the clouds of salbutamol blowing over France obscure the other side of the Alps and the Giro Rosa completely.

This year's 10-stage Giro takes place entirely in northern Italy, beginning with a flat 15.5km team time trial in Verbania on Friday. The first team gets underway at 16:15 CEST, so I guess that's your deadline for predictions. We're predicting, or attempting to, anyway, overall GC only.

There's some proper climbing this year, with an uphill finish at Gerola on stage 6, a 15km mountain time trial from Lanzada to the Campo di Moro dam on stage 7 and then the much anticipated penultimate stage on the Zoncolan. The race finishes a week on Sunday with a climbyish circuit in Cividale del Friuli.

Official site. They might update their facebook page first though.

Parcours, stage profiles etc. all on one page at Procycling Stats.

Fairly comprehensive-looking startlist from Cycling Fever. (NB Defending champ Anna vdB has chosen not to ride this year in order to concentrate on Worlds.)

Splendid predictor game spreadsheet with current standings.

Please give this a rec so it goes to the top & everyone sees it.

In bocca al lupo!