Presented in the splendid setting of the Castello di S.Valentino in Turin, the 22 teams that will take part in the 107th edition of the Giro d’Italia today. There will be 176 of them battling it out over the 21 stages. Of those who will set off today, there will only be 21 Italians and among these two are Giovanni Aleotti from Modena and Luca Covili from Pavulle (photo), both with a great desire for redemption. Aleotti still in the Bora Hansgroe jersey who will join the Red-Bull from the Tour de France. He prepared the Giro mainly on the high ground in the Canary Islands on Teide by running positively in the Valencian Week. The 24-year-old from Finale boasts five career victories all obtained in Romania in the Sibiu Tour will attempt to achieve his first victory in Italy by winning a stage. The 27-year-old Luca Covili (VF Group Bardiani) who achieved an excellent 24th in the 2022 Giro d’Italia place being fourth among the Italians, he will have the chance to have a guide like Domenico Pozzovivo in the running who he already had alongside Coppi and Bartali where he came close to finishing tenth. Covili in the Guro two years ago managed to improve in the third week and will look for some escape of the day to stand out and get on the podium of the day. Today the first stage will be a fight between sprinters from Venaria Reale to Turin but from tomorrow a demanding stage is expected with arrival at the Sanctuary of Oropa, where Marco Pantani triumphed in ’99 and certainly the classification could already see the big favorite in the squad Slovenian Tadej Pogacar. At the Giro d’Italia in its centenary history only two people from Modena have worn the rose: Nello Trogi from Frassinore in 1937 and Romeo Venturelli from Frignano in 1960.
Andrea Giusti
