Monday, 8 June 2015

News shorts: 2016 Giro d'Italia expected to start in the Netherlands

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2016 Giro expected to start in the Netherlands

The start of next year’s Giro d’Italia could be held in Nijmegan, the Netherlands, according to a report on the Italian Tuttobici website. If true, it would be the third time since 2002 that the race has visited the country.

Tuttobici report that, during the IV Napoli Bike Festival, businessman and Dutch cycling ambassador Jos Sluijsmans, announced that the race would begin in Nijmegan next year. The Netherlands hosted the Giro’s grande partenza in Groningen in 2002 and Amsterdam in 2010. The last foreign start for the Giro was Northern Ireland in 2014 with this year’s race starting in San Lorenzo al Mare.

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