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unusual facts about giro



1909 Giro d'Italia

Under this system Luigi Ganna was declared the winner, but had the Giro been a time-based event he would have lost to the third-place finisher Giovanni Rossignoli by 37 minutes.

2010 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11

The Giro reached its southernmost point in this stage, Cava de' Tirreni in Campania.

Antonio Suárez

Suárez also won a stage and finished on the podium in third place at the 1961 Giro d’Italia behind Arnaldo Pambianco of Italy and Jacques Anquetil of France.

Berzin

Evgeni Berzin (born 1970), Russian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1994

Curricabark River

Curricabark River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, northwest of Cootera Hill, southeast of Nundle and flows generally southeast, before reaching its confluence with the Barnard River, northwest of Giro, north of Gloucester.

Danilo Di Luca

On 22 July 2009, it was announced that Di Luca had tested positive for CERA on 20 and 28 May 2009, during the Giro d'Italia.

David Arroyo

He kept it through two mountain stages and the climbing time trial to Kronplatz, but lost it to eventual Giro champion Ivan Basso in stage 19.

El Torero

Torero made his first Pay-Per-View (PPV) appearance at AAA's annual Triplemanía show, Triplemanía II-B where he teamed with Giro and Colorado to defeat Fantasma de la Quebrada, Marabunta and Audillo.

Ethel Léontine Gabain

Ethel received two commissions from Ferranti Hollinwood – Working on the Cathode Ray Tubes and A Giro Compass; one from Richard Haworth & Co.

Eugenio Montejo

International interest in Montejo's poetry grew after his poem "La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos" ("The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer") was used in the film 21 grams by feted Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Giovanni Lombardi

Lombardi became the only rider of the peloton to participate and complete all three grand tours of the 2005 season, riding the Giro and Tour de France for team captain Ivan Basso as well as the Vuelta for Carlos Sastre.

Giro della Provincia di Grosseto

Giro della Provincia di Grosseto is a three-day cycling race in the Province of Grosseto, Italy.

Giro della Provincia di Lucca

The Giro della Provincia di Lucca is a professional road bicycle race held annually in Province of Lucca, Italy.

Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

The Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria is a road bicycle race held annually in Province of Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Giro di Castelbuono

Lirio Abbate & Rosario Mazzola, La storia del giro podistico internazionale di Castelbuono, Promos Editore (1994).

Jean-Baptiste Dortignacq

::1st, Stage 2 (Udine - Bologna) 322 km (first victory of a non-Italian racer in the Giro)

Killamangiro

The title is a pun on the name of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, but further mixes in the song's lyrics about "killing a man for his giro" - a bank deposit method often associated with British unemployment benefits.

Małgorzata Jasińska

:1st overall, Premondiale Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile - Memorial Michela Fanini

Mario Giro

Mario Giro (born in 1958 in Rome) is an Italian trade-unionist, and since 1990 a mediator for peace in the Community of Sant'Egidio.

Miguelón

The nickname Miguelón was derived from Miguel Indurain, a retired Spanish road racing cyclist that won the Tour and Giro in 1992, the year in which this skull was discovered.

Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia

The classification was first calculated in 1933; from 1974 to 2011, the leader of the mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia wore the maglia verde (from Italian: "green jersey"): in 2012, as part of a sponsorship deal, the jersey colour was changed to blue (maglia azzurra).

Points classification in the Giro d'Italia

The Azzurri d'Italia classification (English: Azure or Sky Blue Italy) is an award in the Giro d'Italia in which points are awarded for the top three stage finishers (4, 2 and 1 point).

Roberto Visentini

In 1986, he then won his first and sole Giro by defeating racers such as Saronni, Francesco Moser and Greg LeMond.

Sylvain Georges

In May 2013 Georges withdrew from the Giro D'Italia after testing positive for Heptaminol.


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