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Giro 2012 S8 Hesjedal maglia rosa (Fabio Ferrari - LaPresse - RCS Sport)Irish start for 2014 Giro d'Italia set to be confirmed tomorrow
Ireland is expected to be confirmed tomorrow as hosting the opening stages of next year’s Giro d’Italia, with the race beginning in Belfast and crossing the border for a stage finish in Dublin before heading back to its home country.
Further details of the Irish Grande Partenza should be confirmed at press conferences being held tomorrow at the Titanic Belfast visitors’ centre and Dublin’s civic offices, reports the Belfast Newsletter.
The Grande Partneza of the 2014 Giro will take place less than two months before the 101st edition of the Tour de France gets under way in Yorkshire.
Like the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia nowadays stages foreign starts every two or three years, with last year’s race beginning in Denmark. This year’s edition starts on Italian soil, in Naples.
The cross-border bid to stage next year’s race has been backed by the governments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and is supported by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) and its counterpart in the Republic, Failte Ireland.
It has reportedly been co-ordinated by Dublin-based Shade Tree Sports, which was co-founded and is managed by Darach McQuaid, brother of UCI president Pat McQuaid.
The only previous visit of one of cycling’s Grand Tours to the Emerald Isle was the Tour de France in 1998, the year the race became embroiled in the Festina affair.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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