The 2008 Giro d’Italia will be running from Saturday May 10th to Sunday June 1st 2008, 21 stages will make up the 91st Giro d’Italia and will cover a total distance of 3,424 kilometers.There are only 4 official mountain stages with three mountaintop finishes (time-trial not included) and all of them are in the second half of the race starting with stage 14. However, past years have shown that the Giro organizers are stingy in awarding the mountain stage symbol so several of the seven so called “medium mountain stages”, like Stage 7, should provide quite a bit of action. There are two mountain stages before a final day time-trial in Milano, so the end of this year’s Giro should be very exciting. “This year is the real Giro d’Italia,” Italy president and cycling enthusiast Romano Prodi said in a recorded message. “By choosing a route, not in a circle, but from south to north, the Giro is permitted to run through the entire country.”


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