2007 Giro d'Italia

The 2007 Giro d'Italia cycle race took place from May 12 until June 3, 2007. The race kicked off in the island of Sardinia and finished in Milan three weeks later. It featured five mountain top finishes, of which one was an individual time trial, and visited France and Austria. Italian stars Damiano Cunego, Danilo di Luca, Gilberto Simoni, Stefano Garzelli, Riccardo Riccò and Paolo Savoldelli had set this race as one of their major goals for the 2007 season.

For the first time since 1994, the race had a competition for best young rider, who wears the "maglia bianca". This was won by Andy Schleck of Team CSC

During the race, Alessandro Petacchi was found guilty of using salbutamol after a doping control at May 23. Petacchi had a certificate to use salbutamol in the treatment of asthma, but his level of salbutamol was extremely high. In July 2007, the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) ruled that Petacchi gave good reasons for this high level. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) argued that Petacchi should be suspended for the high level of salbutamol, and send the case to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, the sporting world's highest court. In May 2008, the CAS overruled the decision from the FCI, and Petacchi was stripped from his 2007 results, including all his results from the 2007 Giro d'Italia.cite web|url=http://www.velonews.com/article/75891/cas-suspends-petacchi|title=CAS suspends Petacchi|date=May 7, 2008|author=Charles Pelkey|publisher=VeloNews]

tages

tage 1 - 2007-05-12: Caprera-La Maddalena, 24 km (TTT):

tage 2 - 2007-05-13: Tempio Pausania-Bosa, 203 km:

tage 3 - 2007-05-14: Barumini-Cagliari, 195 km:

=Stage 4 - 2007-05-16: Salerno-Montevergine di Mercogliano, 158 km:=

tage 5 - 2007-05-17: Teano-Frascati, 172 km:

tage 6 - 2007-05-18: Tivoli-Spoleto, 181 km:

First breakaway win in this year's Giro. The peloton, including all the top riders, finished 7'09" behind the winner.

tage 7 - 2007-05-19: Spoleto-Scarperia (Autodromo Internazionale di Mugello), 254 km:

tage 8 - 2007-05-20: Barberino di Mugello-Fiorano Modenese, 194 km:

Peloton, including overall favourites, finished 4'19" behind stage winner.

=Stage 9 - 2007-05-21: Reggio nell'Emilia-Lido di Camaiore, 182 km:=

=Stage 10 - 2007-05-22: Lido di Camaiore-Santuario di Nostra Signora della Guardia, 230 km:=

tage 11 - 2007-05-23: Serravalle Scrivia-Pinerolo, 198 km:

tage 12 - 2007-05-24: Scalenghe-Briançon, 163 km:

tage 13 - 2007-05-25: Biella-Santuario di Oropa, 13 km (ITT):

tage 14 - 2007-05-26: Cantù-Bergamo, 181 km:

tage 15 - 2007-05-27: Trento-Tre Cime di Lavaredo, 190 km:

tage 16 - 2007-05-29: Agordo-Lienz, 196 km:

Peloton finished 8'10" behind the winner.

tage 17 - 2007-05-30: Lienz-Monte Zoncolan, 146 km:

tage 18 - 2007-05-31: Udine-Riese Pio X, 182 km:

tage 19 - 2007-06-01: Treviso-Comano Terme, 178 km:

tage 20 - 2007-06-02: Bardolino-Verona, 42 km (ITT):

tage 21 - 2007-06-03: Vestone-Milano, 181 km:

Jersey progress

Mountains classification

The "Gran Premio della Montagna" is a classification based on points awarded to riders finishing well on mountain stages and intermediate mountain top passes each day. The current leader and overall winner are awarded the "maglia verde" (or green jersey).

Trofeo Super Team classification

A team points classification, based on points (20 down to 1) awarded to all riders in the first 20 each day; all scoring riders count for their team's total.

Withdrawals

Teams and cyclists

The following UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were named to the 2007 Giro d'Italia:

* List of teams and cyclists in the 2007 Giro d'Italia

References

External links

* [http://www.ilgiroditalia.it All about giro d'italia, Race news, team info] (English, Italian)
* [http://giroditalia2007.gazzetta.it Race website] (Italian)
* [http://www.ilgiroditalia.eu Every news about giro d'italia] (English)