Winning races is secondary to point scoring for teams qualifying for major races. The system is broken

Six of one, half a dozen of the other? Did the guy get what he deserved? Or should the UCI have thrown the book at...

“Whoever doesn’t come to the Giro is missing out. It’s the Giro that makes champions, not the other way around.” The director of the Giro...

A summit finish in a Grand Tour ought to mean attacks galore and guarantee GC gaps. Instead they’re pedestrian, predictable and change little, as riders...

Often the highpoint of the race – literally and metaphorically – the mighty Stelvio looms large over the Giro. Who keeps the roads clear of...

Larry and Conor, the #NoGoTour boys reunited at the Giro, and it feels so good. Plus Lee Turner’s crazy pro kit fetish and Stu Clapp’s...

Victor Campenaerts is best known as that whacky rider who asked someone out during a Grand Tour time trial. In the last month he’s become...

As disappointed as he was to abandon the Giro d’Italia, could it yet force Tom Dumoulin to make his first full-bore assault on the Tour...

On May 16th 2009, during the 8th stage of the Giro d’Italia, Rabobank’s Pedro Horrillo slipped off the road on the descent of the Colle...

The favourites for the Giro d’Italia 2019 fall into two camps – time triallists and climbers. Which is more likely to come out on top...

Italy used to produce Grand Tour winners as prolifically as pasta. Recently they have become a rarity, with sprinters the new normal. Ned Boulting on the ghosts...

Illustrator Jo Burt found Pedro Horrillo’s account of his 2009 Giro d’Italia crash so powerful that he felt he should be as economical as possible...

Pasta was nearly his career downfall when he moved to Italy, but the way of life lured Hampsten in and is now where he calls...

When the gravelled Colle delle Finestre first appeared in the Giro in 2005, it was an instant hit

Ahead of the peloton, two former pro riders ensure safe passage for the Giro d’Italia

A bold late attack that briefly promised to flip the script lands Valerio Conti the first of our occasional Giro awards

Days away from the first ever depart of a Grand Tour to be held outside of Europe we look at who’s in shape for the...

Venice in pink, the bunch dreams and ‘Grazie Fausto’: Jeff Parr captures the spirit of the Giro on canvas

Two former pros reflect on winter cycling kit and extreme conditions in the 1970s and 1980s

As 2017 comes to a close, we’ve asked our regular photographers to pick their six favourite cycling images from this year

Miguel Indurain is one of the few riders to have won the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year. What advice does he have...

Italy is riven by divides – physical, linguistic and cultural. In this column for the 17.3 edition of Rouleur, Matt Rendell considers cycling’s role in unifying the...

“My first race was in Treviglio, and we had a little three-wheeled van belonging to a greengrocer as a team car, with us sitting in...

The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Israel will sure look nice, but what about the ethics of its visit? Richard Abraham mulls it over

Photo ops, champagne, tootling into town, then a big sprint at the end. It’s a winning formula that needs no alteration

The breakaway: natural home of cycling’s dreamers and romantics. Matt Seaton considers what it takes to succeed in the sport’s most kamikaze of spectacles.