Two of the favourites for this year's Giro d’Italia and many of the riders who will be in action during the first Grand Tour of the season, will ride next week’s four-day Giro del Trentino in the mountains between Lake Garda and the Val di Non, east of Trento and Bolzano.
While many of the Tour de France contenders will be in action in the Ardennes, Richie Porte (Team Sky) and Fabio Aru (Astana) will fight for the fuchsia-coloured leader’s jersey and test their form just two weeks before the Giro d’Italia starts in San Remo on May 9.
The Giro del Trentino has joined forces with the organisers of the Trofeo Melinda race and will visit the Val di Non valley where millions of apples are grown every year.
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The race begins on Monday with a pan-flat 13.3km team time trial from Riva del Garda to Arco at the northern tip of the huge Italian lake. The rest of the race is in the hills and mountains with finishes at Brentonico, Val Dei Mocheni and Cles. Thursday’s stage ends with a 7.5km climb that has an average gradient of 10 per cent. Cadel Evans won a stage and the overall classification in 2014.
Italy’s Domenico Pozzovivo (Ag2r-La Mondiale) will wear number one after finishing second overall last year. He is expected to again be a contender but Porte and Aru are the big-name contenders
Porte recently won the Volta a Catalunya and before that Paris-Nice. He had a difficult 2014 and missed the Giro d’Italia but seems to be back to his best and is expected to be competitive against the other big-name Giro d’Italia contenders such as Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) and Rigoberto Uran (Etixx-QuickStep).
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