Sportweek special Giro d’Italia with Nibali, Girmay and Cassani’s analysis

From 6 to 29 May, from Budapest to Verona, 21 stages for 3,437.6 km, eight teams and 176 riders competing: the long journey of the Giro d’Italia edition number 105 is about to begin. And Sportweek, on newsstands on Saturday with the Gazzetta dello Sport at the price of 2 euros, as per tradition presents a special full of data and full of stories to tell.

Starting with that of the cover character, Vincenzo Nibali aka Lo Squalo, who jumps into the saddle once again with the mad desire to make his mark, naturally in pink. We went to visit him in his Messina and he told us all about the “race of my dreams as a child”. Stories like that of the Eritrean Biniam Girmay, the first African to win a great classic (the Ghent-Wevelgem, last March): we will see him at his first Giro with the desire to amaze and “the dream, one day, of winning a world”. The former national coach Davide Cassani then analyzes all the stages of the 2022 pink race while the Giro Quiz will allow you to test yourself: 63 questions to find out if you are Eddy Merckx or… a black jersey.

This issue of the Gazzetta weekly does not live on cycling alone: ​​Sportweek flew to Tottenham, North London, to discover the new life of Pierluigi Gollini, the former Atalanta goalkeeper now under the orders of Antonio Conte. He talked to us about football, of course, about the new coach “who brought everything that was missing to the group and also to the club”, but also about a future as an entrepreneur and his desire to sing: “With my stage name Gollorius I will return to perform with a great rapper. And, one day, to parade in Italy… “.