Giro d' Italia
Event Dates
Start Date: 10 May, 2008 - End Date: 1 June 2008Published on the 15-04-2008
The Giro d'Italia is Italy's top cycling competition. Twenty-two teams of professionals take part in the three-week race for the "pink shirt".
Since 1909, when the race first started, it has grown in popularity and is now very much part of the Italian sporting life, attracting a huge crowd of cheerful supporters. Its success is partly due to the legendary champions, such as Coppi, Girardengo and Gimondi, who helped bring the competition to prominence.
In 2008 the race, which criss-crosses the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula (around 3442km in 23 days), is scheduled to start in Palermo and finish in Milan.
website: www.ilgiroditalia.it
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