Male Team 07 - 13 Mar
Tirreno-Adriatico
1131 Kilometers 7 Stages
Eurosport and GCN will show three hours of racing per day, starting at 1435 CET in most stages.
There will be 10-6-4″ at the finish of all six road stages, plus 3-2-1″ at intermediate sprints.
When he competed for the Movistar Team, Nairo Quintana claimed overall honours in this race in 2015 and 2017.
2022 brings significant changes to the overall configuration of Tirreno-Adriatico, one of the most prestigious stageraces leading up to the Giro d’Italia and a major event of the Italian season. The traditional Wednesday-Tuesday slot has been scrapped (in favour of a Monday-Sunday scheme, making room for Milano-Torino, which also changes its route as it places just before Sanremo); dates are now fully clashing with Paris-Nice; and the TTT is left behind to start with an ITT, which otherwise respects the well-known coastal course in Lido di Camaiore (13.9km, Monday 7th).
The rest of the week’s route is quite similar to previous years’. Three will be three predictable sprint finishes in Sovicille (Tuesday 8th), Terni (Wednesday 9th) and the final day in San Benedetto del Tronto (Sunday 13th), which doesn’t host the ITT anymore. Two tough circuits for explosive climbers will be next: one new, in Bellante (Thursday 10th), then one very well known, in Fermo (Friday 11th). And the biggest change in the mountains comes with a double ascent of the Monte Carpegna (Saturday 12th), the usual training path of Marco Pantani, at a beautiful, demanding stage six.