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01:06:20 [APPLAUSE]
01:06:26 >> That was what we call high energy, I think that was.
01:06:28 >> It was? >> Yeah.
01:06:29 Enjoying their craft, we enjoyed that.
01:06:32 Keeping themselves and the audience warm on this chilly night in Turin.
01:06:36 I think we're going to see the jerseys brought onto stage now.
01:06:39 >> [FOREIGN]
01:06:46 >> Four jerseys.
01:06:47 >> And now it's time to present to you the four official leaders jerseys of
01:06:52 the Giro d'Italia.
01:06:54 >> And it'll be matched in reverse order.
01:06:56 And there is an order, isn't there, in terms of the jerseys.
01:06:58 At any stage race, the Giro d'Italia is not an exception.
01:07:01 The one takes precedence over the other, takes precedence over the other,
01:07:04 takes precedence over the other.
01:07:06 We'll start with the white jersey for the best young rider.
01:07:11 Under 25 rider for which competition Tadej Pogacar is no longer qualified.
01:07:17 >> Incredibly.
01:07:18 >> Incredibly.
01:07:19 So this is a wide open competition actually, the white jersey competition.
01:07:24 I mean, they all are really, but it'll be very interesting to see which
01:07:27 protagonista actually get involved in that competition,
01:07:31 courtesy of their position in the general classification.
01:07:33 >> Indeed.
01:07:35 >> Next up, mountains jersey.
01:07:42 Classic blue.
01:07:44 Just a straightforward blue.
01:07:46 King of the mountains jersey.
01:07:53 When it goes to a rider who features in breakaways on successive days,
01:07:57 it's a hard jersey to win and shouldn't be underestimated at all how
01:08:01 important it is and what an honor it is to take that home after three
01:08:04 weeks of racing.
01:08:06 >> Lots of points for stage one as well.
01:08:10 >> Yep, climbing straight away this weekend on stage one on Saturday,
01:08:14 as you say, Matt, and then a big summit finish, was it six, seven
01:08:18 kilometers behind?
01:08:19 >> I'd say so.
01:08:20 >> Stage two, quite extraordinary for a grand tour to get underway like
01:08:23 that as we switch our attention to the points competition, the Maglia
01:08:26 Rossa.
01:08:27 >> One last year in handsome fashion by Jonathan Milan.
01:08:30 But it's not a foregone conclusion that this jersey is won by a
01:08:33 sprinter.
01:08:34 However, this edition of the race, you'd probably say, given how many
01:08:37 opportunities there are for the sprinters, it will go to one of them.
01:08:40 >> I think so.
01:08:41 >> Should it?
01:08:42 >> Eight or nine stages, and of course, the stages, the black stages
01:08:45 are weighted in terms of points towards the sprinters, too.
01:08:48 Big points out on the road to run the intermediate sprints.
01:08:50 It's a one that's spent.
01:08:52 >> Well, this is the jersey that all the GC riders have got their eyes
01:08:57 on, but most notably, of course, Taddei Pogacar.
01:09:00 He's already got two yellow jerseys at the Tour de France to his name.
01:09:04 He's come up against a formidable opponent in that race, Jonas
01:09:07 Vingegaard, and he switches his attention in 2024 to try and add this
01:09:11 one to his collection.
01:09:13 And you'd be a brave man, indeed, to suggest that at the end of
01:09:17 Pogacar's career, whenever that comes, he won't have the full set in
01:09:20 his locker of all the grand tours.
01:09:23 But this is his most immediate target, the prize on offer, the famous
01:09:29 Magliarosa for the winner of the 107th Giro d'Italia to add their name
01:09:35 to a roll call of the greatest riders in the history of road racing.
01:09:40 That's how much it means, how hard it is to win.
01:09:44 Well, anyone who sat back and just watched the Giro d'Italia for three
01:09:48 weeks will understand or have some inkling of quite what lies between
01:09:53 now and the end of the race in Rome.
01:09:56 It leads eventually to one of these riders pulling on that famous pink
01:10:00 jersey outside the Colosseum.
01:10:03 All that's still to come.
01:10:04 It's really iconic, and that's why Taddei Pogacar says he wants to add,
01:10:08 he wants to join the pantheon of greats and win this race to add to his
01:10:13 two tours as well.
01:10:16 Okay, some more teams.
01:10:19 Straight back on.
01:10:20 I think they possibly jumped the gun a little bit there and caught Paolo
01:10:24 and Anthony a little bit on the hop.
01:10:27 They want to get on with it.
01:10:29 Now, this is a team you've spent a bit of time with, haven't you, this year?
01:10:32 Went to a training camp, didn't you?
01:10:33 So the Polticometa boys.
01:10:34 Yeah, they've got a real -- they've got big vision.
01:10:37 They've got a completely different look, as you can see.
01:10:39 There's some brilliant faces amongst this lineup.
01:10:41 The base brothers are back.
01:10:43 Of course, that big stage win they had last year.
01:10:46 Fabro, their new signing from Porto Comscor, Matteo Fabro.
01:10:51 Goes in as their leader, I think.
01:10:53 There's Polti back in the pro peloton after many years.
01:11:04 Of course, Polti had a very successful team back in the early 00s,
01:11:08 back in the mid-90s.
01:11:11 Continued big ambition.
01:11:14 Double to the podium, if not better, for their sprinter as well, Giovanni Lomardi,
01:11:18 who's been in very good shape, actually, in 2024.
01:11:20 He's fast.
01:11:21 A couple of wins this year, hasn't he?
01:11:22 Yep.
01:11:23 Here's Mattia Baiss, the older of the two Baiss brothers,
01:11:26 overshadowed last year by this young man, Davide Baiss,
01:11:29 who took that famous victory on the Gran Sasso stage.
01:11:33 Davide Baiss barely looked like he was bothered by it.
01:11:37 He's a very phlegmatic young man, a real talent.
01:11:39 Here is Matteo Fabro, their new climate signing,
01:11:42 from the ranks of Porto Comscor, from a world-tour team.
01:11:46 Easter spot in the peloton.
01:11:49 And they will be one of the teams that will be super aggressive as well.
01:11:52 As well as trying to fashion a stage win from some sort.
01:11:55 They will definitely be up there regularly.
01:11:57 Expect them to be big protagonists in this race.
01:11:59 They always are.
01:12:01 And I know they will be again in their new livery.
01:12:08 So, they have from Edijoir, La Mondiale, from France.
01:12:12 Now, they've got real ambition on this race.
01:12:15 They're a big team and they can't do any race with a lot of ambition.
01:12:18 But in Ben O'Connor, I think they've got a rider
01:12:20 who really fancies his chances of doing something quite special here at the Giro d'Italia.
01:12:24 Warren Wolbass there, a man of experience as well,
01:12:28 former American road champion.
01:12:30 That's Ben O'Connor.
01:12:31 Yep.
01:12:32 He's tipped himself, backed himself for a podium spot.
01:12:36 Yeah, Warren Wolbass, a domestic, former American champion.
01:12:39 André Vendrame, former stage winner at the Giro d'Italia.
01:12:44 Very versatile rider.
01:12:46 Former stage winners at the Giro as well, including Aurélien Paré-Paintre.
01:12:50 That's his younger brother, Valentin Paré-Paintre.
01:12:53 And that's Aurélien, who took a victory at the Giro d'Italia in the first week last year.
01:13:04 That's Bourdain, and he's their Aussie leader, Ben O'Connor.
01:13:08 Really likeable rider, Ben O'Connor.
01:13:11 Very nearly took the leader's jersey at the Tour de France three or four years ago.
01:13:15 Two or three years ago, Ben O'Connor had to settle for a stage win.
01:13:19 But he's in good shape in 2024 and he's got a harbour's ambitions of doing something special at this race.
01:13:24 Indeed, it was the stage in the Giro, got him a contract, the team is riling in now.
01:13:29 Replacing the Tour a couple of years back.
01:13:33 He's had his setbacks, but he's a man in very good form at the moment.
01:13:37 Looking relaxed and looking confident with a good squad around him.
01:13:40 Now then, Wout van Aert was supposed to be coming to the Giro d'Italia,
01:13:46 but of course that all changed when he had that horrible accident.
01:13:50 The crash that laid him up and taken him out of contention for the Giro d'Italia.
01:13:54 So they've had a little bit of a re-jig.
01:13:56 In for Wout van Aert comes Christophe Laporte,
01:13:59 who will look for his opportunities on the ponchy stages, the European champion.
01:14:04 But they also have a young Belgian rider as their leader in terms of the general classification.
01:14:11 I think there'll be a lot of interest to see how young Jan Utterbroeck's this man goes.
01:14:17 Jan Kratnik is in very good shape indeed.
01:14:25 And Olaf Koy makes his Grand Tour debut here at the Giro d'Italia.
01:14:29 And he is a bona fide, well, you'd have to say one of the fastest men in the world,
01:14:33 and has been for a couple of years now.
01:14:34 Robert Hesink, the veteran Dutch climber,
01:14:38 and the massive bulk of Edoardo Affini.
01:14:42 Such a valuable rider to Visma and Lise Baikers.
01:14:46 Settle on Christophe Laporte, who has the microphone placed in front of him.
01:14:50 Christophe, good evening. Welcome to you and to the team.
01:14:54 It's your first visit to the Giro d'Italia.
01:14:57 You wear a very important jersey, of course, a European champion's jersey.
01:15:01 What's your expectations in this year's race?
01:15:04 Yeah, first, I'm really happy to be there in Italy.
01:15:08 And also with this nice jersey. I will enjoy it for sure.
01:15:12 And the expectations, I mean, we have a very nice team here.
01:15:16 And I just hope for us to have a very nice Giro.
01:15:21 Anthony McLaughlin asked the European champion Christophe Laporte
01:15:27 about his ambitions with this beautiful jersey.
01:15:30 And the European champion said, "I'm really happy and proud to be at the Giro d'Italia."
01:15:34 There are stages that will suit Christophe Laporte,
01:15:36 but he'll have to be versatile in this race, won't he?
01:15:38 He'll have a job to do for his GC leader and also for Olaf Kroy as well.
01:15:43 So he's going to have very few days off, I think, Christophe Laporte.
01:15:46 He's going to be busy with Christophe Laporte as he builds back into condition as well.
01:15:50 But again, they've already got... I mean, Kendall Prickett is the leader,
01:15:53 but apparently their main thrust is about winning stages.
01:15:57 It's what it's all about and see what Brooks can do for the overall.
01:16:00 But they've got options for the suit, for the nailed on sprint stages,
01:16:05 and for those rolly stages, and also for the breaks away, the breaks too.
01:16:09 So more than ever, that team is a team of riders that can take opportunities
01:16:15 rather than being built around one leader.
01:16:16 So that could be quite invigorating for them.
01:16:18 It's very unusual, I think, that Viswa Lisa Bike for the last five years
01:16:27 have gone into any Grand Tour without the genuine prospect of winning the race outright.
01:16:32 That could happen, but it's a real long shot.
01:16:35 So they'll be racing, I think, with a bit more freedom than they usually do,
01:16:39 the Viswa Lisa Bike riders, and they're all to a man extremely strong.
01:16:43 So it'll be interesting to see what they're able to achieve.
01:16:46 As we switch our attention to a second tier team, Tudor Pro Cycling,
01:16:50 Alberto Dainese is the name that stands out above all others here,
01:16:55 including Michael Storer, who's an Australian climber
01:16:59 who will try and seek his chances out in the mountains.
01:17:01 But Dainese is extraordinary, isn't he?
01:17:03 Because he doesn't win prolifically, but he knows how to win at the Giro d'Italia.
01:17:07 And when it really matters, he's able to somehow manufacture a victory.
01:17:11 Yeah, he certainly is.
01:17:12 A couple of wins, as you said.
01:17:17 One close to his hometown, I think it was a couple of years ago as well, Dainese.
01:17:20 Michael Storer as well, a couple of stages in the Vuelta a couple of years ago.
01:17:25 And this man, of course, Matteo Trentin.
01:17:28 Very experienced indeed.
01:17:29 Perhaps not quite the rider that he was a couple of years ago, but still very strong.
01:17:34 And as you say, hugely experienced.
01:17:36 Will be the leader and the captain of that team to some extent.
01:17:39 He will.
01:17:40 He's had some good results this year.
01:17:41 Hasn't got that win, but very consistent earlier in the year as well.
01:17:44 So still, as you say, a force to be reckoned with.
01:17:47 But importantly, has got the experience to pass on to this younger team.
01:17:55 A couple of marquee Italians racing for Tudor Pro Cycling, Dainese and Matteo Trentin.
01:18:01 As they make their way off stage, we introduce Bahrain victorious onto the stage.
01:18:06 And they've got a young Italian of whom a lot is expected, I think.
01:18:10 Maybe not this year, but who knows.
01:18:12 But certainly in the years to come.
01:18:14 Yeah, Tiberi. Antonio Tiberi.
01:18:16 Has ridden well this year, rode well last year.
01:18:19 One of his sleeper riders is slowly moving up through the ranks.
01:18:23 Yeah, building his achievements step by step.
01:18:26 But a real hot prospect.
01:18:28 Antonio Tiberi in the colours of Bahrain victorious.
01:18:32 Lining up two more teams to come after them, including Antamache Guanti.
01:18:48 And then after that, UAE Team Emirates Antade Bogacar will make their way onto the stage.
01:18:53 There's Tiberi, right over on the right-hand side of their line-up.
01:18:59 Phil Bauhaus is their sprinter.
01:19:02 They've got a rider who knows what it takes to finish on the podium of the Giro d'Italia in Damiano Caruso.
01:19:08 There he is, returning to the Giro.
01:19:11 Pasqualon is another sprinter, but I think it'll all be in for Phil Bauhaus.
01:19:20 And here he is, Antonio Tiberi.
01:19:22 And here he is, Antonio Tiberi.
01:19:25 Antonio Tiberi!
01:19:28 Antonio, we're here, and we're off for this Giro d'Italia.
01:19:33 You started off very well this season.
01:19:35 You seem to have reached the maturity required to leave a mark.
01:19:39 You have a very, very strong team.
01:19:41 Next to you you'll have a man and a man of great experience, in particular Damiano Caruso.
01:19:47 What are your plans for this Giro?
01:19:51 Yes, first of all, good evening everyone.
01:19:54 We're here with a great team.
01:19:57 The expectations are high.
01:20:00 I'm leaving a Tour of the Alps in pretty good shape.
01:20:04 We'll try to give our best on the roads of the Giro and make everyone have fun.
01:20:09 We'll try to give our best on the roads of the Giro and make everyone have fun.
01:20:13 Thank you to Antonio Tiberi.
01:20:15 As he said, the team is very, very strong.
01:20:18 As he showed in the Tour of the Alps, his form is already there.
01:20:22 And they hope to do really well in this year's Giro d'Italia.
01:20:26 Thank you to Antonio Tiberi. Thank you to the Paris-Dijon team.
01:20:28 He was good at the Tour of the Alps, a race that in some ways has taken the place of the Tour de Romandie
01:20:34 in terms of being a warm-up race for the Giro d'Italia.
01:20:37 It's almost been preferred by a lot of these riders.
01:20:39 Romandie is perhaps just a little bit too close now for modern cycling to the Giro d'Italia itself.
01:20:45 So, good preparation and the signs are very good for Antonio Tiberi.
01:20:49 Top five, though. I think we were fourth overall in that particular race.
01:20:54 So, penultimate team.
01:20:56 And they are led by another former stage winner at the Giro d'Italia.
01:21:01 The biggest moment in his racing career.
01:21:03 He comes back to the Giro d'Italia, the hugely popular, respected, very strong,
01:21:07 Biniam Girmay, the star rider from Eritrea.
01:21:13 Since that startling couple of years that he had, not quite at the same level last year,
01:21:20 but signs, I think, in 2023 that he's coming back to something approaching his best.
01:21:25 He's already taken a win, hasn't he, this year?
01:21:27 He has, it was earlier in the year. Dion Smith as well, second place on the final stage of the Tour de Romandie as well.
01:21:32 Arun Pitti, very experienced rider.
01:21:35 Maz Mikulis, the Estonian sprinter.
01:21:39 But, yes, he's getting back to form.
01:21:43 Lilian Kalmejan, very experienced and looking to try and complete the set of stage wins at Grand Tours.
01:21:58 He'd be the 101st rider to do that in the history of cycling, if he does.
01:22:02 Biniam Girmay, though, undoubtedly the star here.
01:22:05 He'll have plenty of opportunities to remind us how good he is.
01:22:09 Well, of course, two years ago at the Giro, you made sports history.
01:22:12 You became the first African to win a stage in a Grand Tour.
01:22:17 What is your goal in this year's Giro d'Italia?
01:22:22 And welcome back.
01:22:24 Thank you for everyone. Thank you for you are here with bad weather.
01:22:30 Yeah, I think this year it's always special to be back in Giro.
01:22:41 So we have strong team here this year.
01:22:44 So we will try to win a stage.
01:22:54 Well, it would be a very popular win if Biniam Girmay were able to repeat the success of 2022.
01:23:02 And of course, if he does, we'll chat for that moment with the champagne cork that prematurely ended his participation in the Giro d'Italia.
01:23:09 In celebration of his stage win, he popped the champagne cork and it damaged his eye and forced his abandonment of the race.
01:23:15 It was such a sad little afternoon, such a glorious moment and a genuinely historic moment for the development.
01:23:22 The slow but steady development of African racing.
01:23:28 Biniam Girmay is very much a leading light in the wave of young and he is still a young rider.
01:23:36 African cyclists who are just beginning to make their mark at the highest level in the biggest races of all in Europe.
01:23:42 A superstar.
01:23:44 From one departing superstar to arguably the biggest in the world right now.
01:23:51 Coming to the Giro d'Italia for the first time, supported by an immensely strong outfit in the colors of UAE Team Emirates.
01:23:58 And getting a huge reception here from the crowds in Turin.
01:24:02 As if he were a home rider, he's from just over the border in Slovenia.
01:24:07 He needs no introduction really, but let's give him one because he is rightly already one of the greatest riders who's ever ridden a bike.
01:24:16 Kadej Pogacar takes on the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his life.
01:24:21 What a strong team as you'd expect, Matt.
01:24:25 It's a cracking team. There's the line-up, Megante Langen, Rui Oliveira, Guachaco Molano in the sprints, Rafa Majka, what a lieutenant in the mountains.
01:24:34 The Polish rider is twice a KOM in the Tour, of course.
01:24:38 He got Stoerke Langen, the vast Norwegian who does so much of the hard work.
01:24:44 What a rider.
01:24:46 Rui Oliveira there, Mikkel Bjerg. Not a shy retiring team at all, are they? No.
01:24:54 I mean, 30 wins this year for this squad. They are, I mean, running a perpetual crest of the wave.
01:25:11 He just looks like he's having fun all the time. It's great, isn't it? It is.
01:25:14 Kadej, good evening.
01:25:16 Buona sera.
01:25:18 Welcome to the Giro d'Italia. As you can tell, this public, the fans have been waiting for you all night in the rain.
01:25:29 You're in great shape though. You've shown us that. You've shown us how good your form has been in the classics.
01:25:34 We approach the start of the Giro on Saturday. How do you feel? And as always, you sometimes give us a little indication.
01:25:42 When are you going to attack? Stage one or a little bit later?
01:25:46 Thank you for a good welcome and thank you for all the fans.
01:25:51 Actually, quite amazing. You come here in this terrible weather. And chapeau to all of you.
01:26:03 So, yeah, I'm pretty happy to be here along this crowd and this team. We are ready to attack the Giro.
01:26:10 I cannot say which stage, but for sure, yeah, we will try to make a good racing and try to take the pink jersey.
01:26:18 Wow, of course he wasn't going to tell us. Of course he wasn't going to tell us.
01:26:25 But he's a rider who sometimes races to a plan and at other times just, you sense, is prepared to rip the plan up.
01:26:32 And gamble a little bit. That's one of the reasons why I think he sits so deeply in the affections of the cycling fans.
01:26:38 I think, Ned, you're right. I think you've hit the nail on the head.
01:26:41 I think although he is dominant, it's the style of the dominant that it's difficult to get tired of.
01:26:47 Because, I mean, he does things his own way. There's not a particular routine.
01:26:52 It's just, OK, I feel good. I'm going to tear this race to pieces.
01:26:54 Which is why you can't rule out an attack on stage one. You can't.
01:26:57 You can't, Ned. I certainly wouldn't bet against it. But he looks relaxed. He's got a great team around him.
01:27:03 He is the five-star favourite for this race, unsurprisingly. But looks relaxed, doesn't he?
01:27:10 Well, strap yourselves in, folks, because the next three weeks could be, once again, historic in the long history of the sport we all love.
01:27:18 Tadej Pogacar, if he pulls it off, is going to write another massive, massive chapter in his already extraordinary story.
01:27:27 That's it. You've seen all 176 riders, all 22 teams.
01:27:33 All that remains, I think, is for Paolo and Anthony to bring on the trophy that the winning rider in three weeks' time will hold aloft in Rome.
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01:28:00 As Stefano said, we come to the last act now of the team presentation, the ultimate challenge to achieve the dream.
01:28:08 You're about to witness a high-tech and LED show, which is appreciated all over the world.
01:28:15 They've travelled here from Ukraine to bring hope to the most exciting race.
01:28:20 At the team's presentation, give them a warm welcome, directly from Kiev, Light Balance.
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01:31:53 Fantastic show right at the end in increasingly awful conditions here.
01:31:58 And the crowd, to credit them, have stayed on right to the bitter end to see that pink balloon held aloft and preserved all the way through the journey.
01:32:07 From the start of the show, through the presentation of 176 riders, right the way through to the end.
01:32:12 Or almost the end, because no Giro team's presentation is complete quite without the moment when the big curly golden thing is wheeled onto the stage.
01:32:25 Indeed, the Trofeo Senza Fine is about to be presented.
01:32:30 Now in the words of the journalist Marco Pastonesi, it's time to present to you the Trofeo Senza Fine.
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01:32:42 Here it comes.
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01:32:58 Like a giant golden coil spring.
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01:33:13 One Slovenian inscribed his name last year in 2023, Primož Roglič, finally winning the Giro d'Italia.
01:33:21 Will it be followed in quick succession by his younger compatriot by almost a decade,
01:33:28 Tadej Poracia.
01:33:31 And if it isn't Tadej Poracia, then who will it be to add their name to the list of greats who held this trophy aloft.
01:33:38 In its various different guises, very much the defining symbol of the modern era of the Giro d'Italia,
01:33:44 a race which continues to celebrate its own very particular identity and provide us with a style of racing
01:33:52 fitting with the landscape through which the riders will be passing on the Italian peninsula exclusively in this edition of the race over the next three weeks.
01:34:05 Finishing in the capital of Italy, Rome, where one of the riders will be presented with this trophy.
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01:34:16 We present to you the Trofeo Senza Fine.
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01:34:26 Even the trophy is having to just gyrate gently to keep itself warm on this bitterly cold night in Turin.
01:34:32 But that's it. Thank you very much for joining us for the team's presentation here of an edition of the race that has got intrigue in abundance over the next three weeks.
01:34:43 Thanks for watching. Do tune in again when we have live coverage of Stage 1.
01:34:48 In fact, we'll be showing all of every stage over the next three weeks and it all gets underway in Turin for Stage 1 on Saturday.
01:34:55 But from everybody here involved in this show in Turin tonight, I'll leave you in the company of our hosts to say goodnight.
01:35:03 See you on Saturday.
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01:35:56 Just thank you to all of you for standing there in the rain. We are going to meet you on Saturday, the 4th of May, for the first stage of the 107th Giro d'Italia from Venaria Reale to here at Torino.
01:36:11 Giroland, the Giro d'Italia commercial village is located in Piazza Vittorio Veneto and it awaits you tomorrow and also on Saturday with many, many fun activities.
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