2015 Giro d'Italia Stage 1 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 1 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia! Our live time-trial times and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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The 2015 Giro d'Italia kicks off with a 17.6 kilometer team time trial along the Mediterranean coast. Starting in San Lorenzo al Mare, each team will work its way south to Sanremo, popular among tourists for its attractive beaches and climate.
Former Italian cyclist Renato Laghi, who rode the Giro 12 times, said his team never once did a traditional team time trial.
“Vincenzo Torriani, the race director, didn’t like them, but we did a relay time trial once,” Laghi said. “It was the first stage of the 1971 Giro and it started down in Puglia, at Lecce. Torriani was forever having strange ideas and this one involved each rider doing 6km, then passing on to the next one. You had 10-man teams back then, so the race was 60km all told, finishing in Brindisi. Salvarani won it and there were 10 pink jerseys in the peloton the following day.
Laghi guesses that Orica-GreenEdge or BMC will win the first stage.
“Orica won it last year in Belfast and they don’t have a real GC rider, so they’ll be set up for it and focused on winning it. It’s the first maglia rosa, so for so for them it’s a really big day,” Laghi said.
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