RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank — Palestinians have expressed outrage at teams from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for taking part in the opening legs of the Giro d'Italia cycling race in Israel over the weekend, which they say undermined Arab solidarity with their cause.
As the 2018 edition of the Giro d'Italia pauses to recover from a hectic Grande Partenza in Israel, take a walk down the lanes of recent memory as Cyclingnews looks back at the three opening stages.
A race volunteer had a lucky escape during the final stage of the Tour de Yorkshire when an Astana team car almost ploughed into him. It was only a bit of quick moving from the signalman that prevented him from being hit as he dove out of the way at the last second.
As the 174 remaining riders in the 2018 Giro d'Italia stepped out of the arrivals hall at Fontanarossa Airport on Monday lunchtime, their gazes were immediately arrested by the dark and brooding outcrop that defines the Catania skyline.
Defending Giro d'Italia champion Tom Dumoulin has come to the race with a much stronger line-up for the mountains than in previous years, says teammate and fellow Giro participant Chad Haga.
The race is back on home soil... depending on whom you ask
Stage 4: Catania — Caltagirone, 198km
At last, the Giro’s desert wanderings have come to an end and they’ve decamped for a place...
Giro di America, it can happen!
Having fun yet? After three unexciting stages I think thhis isn’t much of a time to reflect on racing, so here’s my topic of the day: the Giro should come to America.
Giro d'Italia director Mauro Vegni has hinted at a possible revival of a decade-old idea of a Grande Partenza in the United States in the future of the race. Asked on Rai Sport over the weekend if he thought this was a possibility...
The UCI has confirmed that the winner of this year's Vuelta a San Juan, Gonzalo Najar, failed a doping test at the January race, along with his teammate and fellow Argentinian, Gaston Emiliano Javier.
Israel Cycling Academy's Guillaume Boivin ensured that he did his bit to show off the team's colours while they were on home ground by getting into the day's main breakaway on both stage 2 and stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia.
Chris Froome's tilt at the Giro d’Italia didn't get off to the best start when he crashed during a recon of the opening time trial, but the battle to prove his innocence in his salbutamol case may have received a boost following the publication of a new scientific study.
Astana team manager Alexander Vinokourov was in Israel for the Grande Partenza of the Giro d’Italia and confirmed that he has secured the future of his Astana team until at least 2020.
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