Milano-Torino

Like a chameleon. Milano-Torino has changed its skin no less than three times in recent years, including a 2022 edition which is going to apparently turn a forced ‘experiment’ -due to the post-pandemic outbreak calendar-, the one from 2020, in permanent: locating itself right before Milano-Sanremo.

That time, in August two years ago, it became a race for the sprinters; later on, in October 2021, it got back to the slopes of Superga, the decisive point of previous years; and in 2022, using the date change for Tirreno, it goes back to March, on the Wednesday prior to the ‘Classicissima’, and transforms itself again into a ‘final rehearsal’, with no big climbs in its route.

It thus becomes a 199km course from Magenta to Rivoli, with a couple of small ascents -San Martino Canavese, halfway through the route, and a 2km hill at 3% with 12 kilometers to go- which shouldn’t avoid the ‘volata’ by any means.