:2007 Giro d'Italia
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{{Infobox cycling race report
| name =
| image = Giro d Italia 2007.png
| image_size = 300px
| image_caption = Overview of the stages:
route from Caprera, in Sardinia, to Milan covered by the riders on the bicycle (red)
and distances between stages (green).
| image_alt = Map of Italy showing the path of the race in red and green lines, starting on the island of Sardinia and crossing the Tyrrhenian Sea to the southern part of the mainland, then heading north, going counter-clockwise to eventually end in Milan
| date = 12 May – 3 June 2007
| stages = 21
| distance = 3486
| unit = km
| time = 92h 59' 39"
| speed = 37.486
| first = Danilo Di Luca
| first_nat = ITA
| first_team = {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}}
| first_color = pink
| second = Andy Schleck
| second_nat = LUX
| second_team = {{UCI team code|SAX|2007}}
| third = Eddy Mazzoleni
| third_nat = ITA
| third_team = {{UCI team code|AST|2007}}
| points = Alessandro Petacchi none
| points_nat =
| points_team =
| points_color = violet
| mountains = Leonardo Piepoli
| mountains_nat = ITA
| mountains_team = {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007}}
| mountains_color = green
| youth = Andy Schleck
| youth_nat = LUX
| youth_team = {{UCI team code|SAX|2007}}
| youth_color = white
| sprints = Mikhail Ignatiev
| sprints_nat = RUS
| sprints_team = {{UCI team code|TCS|2007}}
| combativity = Alessandro Petacchi none
| combativity_nat =
| combativity_team =
| team = {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007}}
| teampoints = {{UCI team code|LAM|2007}}
| previous = 2006
|next = 2008
}}
The 2007 Giro d'Italia was the 90th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place from 12 May to 3 June 2007. The race began in Sardinia and finished in Milan, and featured five mountain top finishes, of which one was an individual time trial. The race also visited France and Austria in three stages.
Danilo Di Luca of the {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} team won the race, with Andy Schleck from {{UCI team code|SAX|2007}} and Eddy Mazzoleni from {{UCI team code|AST|2007}} rounding out the podium. Schleck also won the youth classification, which featured in the Giro for the first time since 1994. Di Luca's team dominated the overall classification, holding the race leader's pink jersey for 17 of the 21 stages.
During the race, Alessandro Petacchi tested positive for elevated levels of salbutamol at a doping control on 23 May, after winning Stage 11.{{cite web
|url = http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/07/04/cycling.petacchi/index.html
|title = Drug charge ends Petacchi Tour bid
|date = 2007-07-04
|work = CNN
|publisher = Time Warner
|access-date = 2009-12-01
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194658/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/07/04/cycling.petacchi/index.html
|archive-date = 3 March 2016
|url-status = live}} Petacchi has a medical exemption to use salbutamol in the treatment of asthma, but the concentration of the drug in his urine sample from this control was above the therapeutically accepted level. Though the Italian Cycling Federation originally refused to punish him, the Italian National Olympic Committee appealed the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, resulting in a suspension for the rider and forfeiture of all his results from the Giro.{{cite web|url=http://www.velonews.com/article/75891/cas-suspends-petacchi |title=CAS suspends Petacchi |date=7 May 2008 |author=Charles Pelkey |work=VeloNews |publisher=Competitor Group, Inc |access-date=16 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515100310/http://www.velonews.com/article/75891/cas-suspends-petacchi |archive-date=15 May 2008 |url-status=live}}
Teams
{{main list|List of teams and cyclists in the 2007 Giro d'Italia}}
The Giro, along with the season's other Grand Tours (the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España), was one of several events run in 2007 as a UCI ProTour event but without a ProTour license. This meant that while ProTour points were awarded in the race, the organizers were not obligated to invite the 20 ProTour teams. Nineteen of the twenty ProTour teams, {{UCI team code|COS|2007}} being the exception, were invited, with three UCI Professional Continental teams rounding out the event's 22-team peloton. Each team entered nine riders, so the race began with 198 in total.
The 22 teams who took part in the race were:{{cite web
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=startlist
|title=Start list
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100108141034/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=startlist| archive-date= 8 January 2010 | url-status= live}}
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Pre-race favorites
File:Basso, Ivan - Amgen 2007.jpg originally intended to seek overall victory in this event with the {{UCI team code|DSC|2007}} team, but he pulled out of the race before it began.]]
In the months leading up to the Giro, headlines centered on defending champion Ivan Basso. After having been removed from {{UCI team code|SAX|2006}}'s start list for the 2006 Tour de France due to his apparent involvement in the Operación Puerto doping case,{{cite web
|author = Andrew Hood
|url = http://velonews.competitor.com/2006/06/news/drug-scandal-changes-face-of-06-tour_10185
|title = Drug scandal changes face of '06 Tour
|date = 2006-06-30
|work = VeloNews
|publisher = Competitor Group, Inc
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140715024908/http://velonews.competitor.com/2006/06/news/drug-scandal-changes-face-of-06-tour_10185
|archive-date = 15 July 2014
|url-status = live}} Basso and Team CSC mutually agreed on the termination of his contract with them.{{cite web
|author = Andrew Hood
|url = http://velonews.competitor.com/2006/10/news/road/basso-and-csc-cut-ties_11055
|title = Basso and CSC cut ties
|date = 2006-10-18
|work = VeloNews
|publisher = Competitor Group, Inc
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000626/http://velonews.competitor.com/2006/10/news/road/basso-and-csc-cut-ties_11055
|archive-date = 15 July 2014
|url-status = live}} Days later, Basso appeared to be cleared of any connection to Puerto, as the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) shelved his case,{{cite web
|author1 = Tim Maloney
|author2 = Gregor Brown
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/oct06/oct27news4
|title = Basso's Operación Puerto case officially shelved
|date = 2006-10-26
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141028042032/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/oct06/oct27news4
|archive-date = 28 October 2014
|url-status = live}} and he signed with {{UCI team code|DSC|2007}}.{{cite web
|author = Gregor Brown
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/oct06/oct27news4
|title = Ivan Basso back on the road – with Discovery Channel
|date = 2006-12-03
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141028042032/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/oct06/oct27news4
|archive-date = 28 October 2014
{{cite web
|author=James Startt
|url=http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance/article/0,6802,s1-7-127-15290-1,00.html
|title=Basso to Disco
|work=Bicycling.com
|publisher=Rodale Inc
|access-date=2009-12-05
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707032056/http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance/article/0%2C6802%2Cs1-7-127-15290-1%2C00.html
|archive-date=7 July 2007
|url-status=dead
}}
He rode part of the 2007 season with Discovery, and had intended to seek overall victory both in this Giro and in the 2007 Tour de France with his new team.{{cite web
|author=James Startt
|url=http://www.2009tourdefrancenews.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-9-14401-1,00.html
|title=2007 Giro d'Italia Preview
|work=Bicycling.com
|publisher=Rodale Inc
|access-date=2010-12-30
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707061321/http://www.2009tourdefrancenews.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-9-14401-1,00.html
|archive-date=7 July 2011
|url-status=dead
|author=Gregoire LeMarchand
|url=http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance/article/0,6802,s1-7-127-15367-1,00.html
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070707032056/http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance/article/0,6802,s1-7-127-15367-1,00.html
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2007-07-07
|title=Wait And See
|date=2006-12-02
|work=Bicycling.com
|publisher=Rodale Inc
{{cite web
|author=Jean Montois
|url=http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-9-14401-1,00.html
|title=Basso's Bid Conjures Memories of Pantani
|work=Bicycling.com
|publisher=Rodale Inc
|access-date=2009-12-05
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902212900/http://www.2009tourdefrancenews.com/article/0%2C6610%2Cs1-3-9-14401-1%2C00.html
|archive-date=2 September 2011
|url-status=dead
}}
In April 2007, Basso's case was re-opened by the FCI, a step rarely taken on cases formally shelved. Facing further investigations into his involvement with the doping ring, team Discovery asked him to stop racing late in April.{{cite web
|author = Laura Weislo
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/apr07/apr24news3
|title = Basso's Giro participation in doubt
|date = 2007-04-24
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131205231951/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/apr07/apr24news3
|archive-date = 5 December 2013
|url-status = live}} Shortly afterward, just two weeks before the Giro was to begin, Basso terminated his contract with Discovery,{{cite news
|agency = Associated Press
|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/sports/othersports/01cycling.html
|title = With Case Reopened, Basso Leaves His Team
|date = 2007-05-01
|work = The New York Times
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220606093149/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/sports/othersports/01cycling.html?_r=0
|archive-date = 6 June 2022
|url-status = live}} meaning the Giro started without its defending champion. Basso subsequently admitted to planning on doping in the 2006 Tour,{{cite news
|agency = Agence France Presse
|url = http://velonews.competitor.com/2007/05/news/basso-admits-only-to-attempted-doping_12220
|title = Basso admits only to 'attempted' doping
|date = 2007-05-08
|work = VeloNews
|publisher = Competitor Group, Inc
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714171429/http://velonews.competitor.com/2007/05/news/basso-admits-only-to-attempted-doping_12220
|archive-date = 14 July 2014
|url-status = live}} and the FCI handed him a two-year suspension, with credit for time already served in 2006 after he was first connected to the doping ring.{{cite news
|agency = Associated Press
|url = https://www.espn.com/olympics/cycling/news/story?id=2905482
|title = Italian cycling federation suspends Basso two years for doping
|date = 2007-07-15
|publisher = ESPN
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103204308/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=2905482
|archive-date = 3 November 2012
|url-status = live}} Paolo Bettini, the reigning world champion, wore bib number one in Basso's place.
Basso's removal left wide open the possibilities for overall victory in this Giro.{{cite web
|author = Gregor Brown
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/
|title = Open Giro on the horizon
|date = 2007-05-10
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140627095646/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/
|archive-date = 27 June 2014
|url-status = live}} Four former Giro winners started this race – Damiano Cunego, Paolo Savoldelli, Gilberto Simoni, and Stefano Garzelli – and they were expected to be among the favorites.{{cite web
|author = John Wilcockson
|url = http://velonews.competitor.com/2007/05/news/road/giro-2007-spectacular-opening-vicious-finale_12228
|title = Giro 2007: Spectacular opening, vicious finale
|date = 2007-05-10
|work = VeloNews
|publisher = Competitor Group, Inc
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714200239/http://velonews.competitor.com/2007/05/news/road/giro-2007-spectacular-opening-vicious-finale_12228
|archive-date = 14 July 2014
|url-status = live}} Simoni's {{UCI team code|FUJ|2006}} team was noted to contain many strong climbers, including Riccardo Riccò and Leonardo Piepoli. The passage of the Giro over Monte Zoncolan, where Simoni won a stage en route to overall victory in the 2003 Giro d'Italia, was also noted as a factor in his favor. Classics specialist Danilo Di Luca of {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} was also named as a contender, chiefly because of his strong team. Further riders named as contenders included Pietro Caucchioli and Yaroslav Popovych.
The most high-profile sprinters lined up to begin the 2007 Giro were Alessandro Petacchi and Robbie McEwen. They, along with countrymen Mario Cipollini and Baden Cooke, had had a back-and-forth rivalry for sprinting supremacy that had gone back several years{{cite web
|author = Tim Maloney
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/?id=results/prologue
|title = Un bravo ragazzo: Cancellara crushes in Tour prologue
|date = 2004-07-13
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141129184220/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/?id=results/prologue
|archive-date = 29 November 2014
|url-status = live}} but had been stunted in 2006 when Petacchi missed most of the season, including all but the first three stages of the Giro, due to a fractured kneecap sustained from a crash.{{cite web
|url = http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/petacchi-out-of-giro-and-tour-9757/
|title = Petacchi out of Giro – and Tour?
|date = 2006-05-09
|publisher = BikeRadar.com
|access-date = 2009-12-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184158/http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/petacchi-out-of-giro-and-tour-9757/
|archive-date = 3 March 2016
|url-status = live}} One pre-race analysis viewed Petacchi's 2007 Giro and season as a chance at redemption for him. Other fast men in the race noted to be contenders in the flat stages included two-time points classification winner Bettini, Danilo Napolitano, and Graeme Brown.
Route and stages
Race director Angelo Zomegnan commented that the route was designed to be easier than that of the extremely climbing-intensive 2006 Giro. The Giro's twenty-one stages were divided into the following classifications: three time trials (one team and two individual), eleven flat or undulating stages (officially there was no distinction made between flat and undulating), four intermediate stages, and three mountain stages.
{{cite web
|url = http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/tappe/tappe_en.shtml
|title = Stages
|publisher = Gazzetta
|access-date = 2009-12-01
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130314002802/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/tappe/tappe_en.shtml
|archive-date = 14 March 2013
|url-status = live}} The race began with a team time trial on the island of Sardinia. This was followed by two flat stages and an unusually early rest day to transfer from Sardinia to Italy's mainland. The riders transferred by plane while the Giro caravan, race officials and team cars made the trip by boat.{{cite web
|author=Gregor Brown
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=features/route
|title=90th Giro d'Italia celebrates the climbers
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108102705/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=features%2Froute
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} The final stage, as was tradition, was a flat, mostly ceremonial road stage to Milan, finishing with ten circuits on the Corso Venezia of the Via Montenapoleone.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0721
|title=Stage 21 – Sunday, June 3: Vestone – Milano, 185 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108103638/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0721
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}}
File:Drei zinnen gross.jpg hosted the finish to the Giro's queen stage.]]
There were three stages that began or ended outside Italy. Stage 12, the first high mountain stage, ended at the French city Briançon, a frequent destination for the Tour de France.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0712
|title=Stage 12 – Thursday, May 24: Scalenghe – Briançon (Francia), 163 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108103621/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0712
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} The 16th stage ended at Lienz in Austria,{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0716
|title=Stage 16 – Tuesday, May 29: Agordo (Dolomiti Stars) – Lienz (Austria), 189 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140942/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0716
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} and the 17th began there.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0717
|title=Stage 17 – Wednesday, May 30: Lienz (Austria) – Monte Zoncolan, 142 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140948/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0717
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}}
Five stages ended with climbs. Stage 4, the first intermediate stage, ended at Montevergine di Mercogliano at {{convert|1260|m|abbr=on}}.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro074
|title=Stage 4 – Wednesday, May 16: Salerno – Montevergine Di Mercogliano, 153 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108141009/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro074
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} The tenth stage, also classified intermediate, had a less imposing final climb of {{convert|760|m|abbr=on}}, but it was nonetheless expected to change the race's overall standings as it was very long it had numerous small climbs.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0710
|title=Stage 10 – Tuesday, May 22: Lido Di Camaiore – Santuario Nostra Signora Della Guardia, 250 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108103616/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0710
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} Stage 13 was a climbing time trial, to Santuario di Oropa at {{convert|1142|m|abbr=on}}, with gradients on the climb reaching as high as 13%.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0713
|title=Stage 13 – Friday, May 25: Biella – Santuario Di Oropa (Mountain TT), 12.6 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140932/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0713
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} Two stages later was perhaps the race's most difficult stage, featuring four major climbs and ending at {{convert|2304|m|abbr=on}} at Tre Cime di Lavaredo.{{cite web
|author=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages/giro0715
|title=Stage 15 – Sunday, May 27: Trento – Tre Cime Di Lavaredo, 184 km
|date=2007-05-11
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108103626/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=stages%2Fgiro0715
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} The last mountaintop arrival was in the seventeenth stage, and featured one of the hardest climbs in the world, Monte Zoncolan. Though the summit of this climb was lesser than some other peaks visited in the race, at {{convert|1730|m|abbr=on}}, its gradients were crushing, with the steepest stretches reaching over 20% incline. Though the number of mountain stages was small, it was nonetheless expected that it would take a strong climber to win the race.
| class="wikitable"
!Stage !Date !Course !Distance !colspan="2"|Type !Winner |
| align="center"|1
|align="center"|12 May |Caprera to La Maddalena |align="center"| {{convert|25.6|km|1|abbr=on}} |align="center"|Image:Time Trial.svg |{{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} |
| align="center"|2
|align="center"|13 May |Tempio Pausania to Bosa |align="center"| {{convert|205|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage |{{flagathlete|Robbie McEwen|AUS}} |
| align="center"|3
|align="center"|14 May |align="center"| {{convert|181|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage | |
| |align="center"|15 May
|colspan="6" align=center| Rest day |
|---|
| align="center"|4
|align="center"|16 May |Salerno to Montevergine di Mercogliano |align="center"| {{convert|153|km|abbr=on}} |Image:Mediummountainstage.svg |Intermediate stage |{{flagathlete|Danilo Di Luca|ITA}} |
| align="center"|5
|align="center"|17 May |align="center"| {{convert|173|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage |{{flagathlete|Robert Förster|GER}} |
| align="center"|6
|align="center"|18 May |align="center"| {{convert|177|km|abbr=on}} |Image:Mediummountainstage.svg |Intermediate stage |{{flagathlete|Luis Felipe Laverde|COL}} |
| align="center"|7
|align="center"|19 May |Spoleto to Scarperia |align="center"| {{convert|254|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage | |
| align="center"|8
|align="center"|20 May |Barberino di Mugello to Fiorano Modenese |align="center"| {{convert|200|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage |{{flagathlete|Kurt Asle Arvesen|NOR}} |
| align="center"|9
|align="center"|21 May |Reggio Emilia to Lido di Camaiore |align="center"| {{convert|177|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage |{{flagathlete|Danilo Napolitano|ITA}} |
| align="center"|10
|align="center"|22 May |Camiaore to Santuario Nostra Signora della Guardia |align="center"| {{convert|250|km|abbr=on}} |Image:Mediummountainstage.svg |Intermediate stage |{{flagathlete|Leonardo Piepoli|ITA}} |
| align="center"|11
|align="center"|23 May |Serravalle Scrivia to Pinerolo |align="center"| {{convert|198|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage | |
| align="center"|12
|align="center"|24 May |Scalenghe to Briançon (France) |align="center"| {{convert|163|km|abbr=on}} |align="center"| Image:Mountainstage.svg |Mountain stage |{{flagathlete|Danilo Di Luca|ITA}} |
| align="center"|13
|align="center"|25 May |align="center"| {{convert|12.6|km|1|abbr=on}} |align="center"|Image:Mountain Time Trial Stage.svg |{{flagathlete|Marzio Bruseghin|ITA}} |
| align="center"|14
|align="center"|26 May |align="center"| {{convert|192|km|abbr=on}} |Image:Mediummountainstage.svg |Intermediate stage |{{flagathlete|Stefano Garzelli|ITA}} |
| align="center"|15
|align="center"|27 May |Trento to Tre Cime di Lavaredo |align="center"| {{convert|184|km|abbr=on}} |align="center"| Image:Mountainstage.svg |Mountain stage |{{flagathlete|Riccardo Riccò|ITA}} |
| |align="center"|28 May
|colspan="6" align=center|Rest day |
| align="center"|16
|align="center"|29 May |align="center"| {{convert|189|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage |{{flagathlete|Stefano Garzelli|ITA}} |
| align="center"|17
|align="center"|30 May |Lienz (Austria) to Monte Zoncolan |align="center"| {{convert|142|km|abbr=on}} |align="center"| Image:Mountainstage.svg |Mountain stage |{{flagathlete|Gilberto Simoni|ITA}} |
| align="center"|18
|align="center"|31 May |Udine to Riese Pio X |align="center"| {{convert|203|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage | |
| align="center"|19
|align="center"|1 June |align="center"| {{convert|179|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage |{{flagathlete|Iban Mayo|ESP}} |
| align="center"|20
|align="center"|2 June |align="center"| {{convert|43|km|0|abbr=on}} |align="center"|Image:Time Trial.svg |{{flagathlete|Paolo Savoldelli|ITA}} |
| align="center"|21
|align="center"|3 June |align="center"|{{convert|185|km|abbr=on}} |Flat or undulating stage | |
| |colspan="2" align=center| Total
|colspan="5" align="center"| {{convert|3486|km|0|abbr=on}} |
Race overview
{{main|2007 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11|2007 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21}}
The Giro began with a team time trial on the island of Sardinia. The winning team was {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}}, but due to unusual stage-ending tactics, it was Enrico Gasparotto and not team leader Danilo Di Luca who took the first pink jersey.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|author3=Jean-François Quénet
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro071
|title=Gasparotto Surprises
|date=2007-05-12
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108102858/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro071
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} Gasparotto faced intense questioning from his teammates and the media after not yielding first position to his team's captain, as is usual practice in a team time trial.{{cite web
|author=Laura Weislo
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/news.php?id=/news/2007/may07/may13news2
|title=Pink jersey apologises for "mistake"
|date=2007-05-13
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108102710/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/news.php?id=%2Fnews%2F2007%2Fmay07%2Fmay13news2
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} Gasparotto yielded the jersey to Di Luca after stage 2, when Di Luca finished higher-placed in the mass finish,{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro072
|title=Rockin' Robbie McEwen sprints ahead of greats
|date=2007-05-14
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108103537/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro072
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} but took it back again after stage 3 when he contested the sprint and finished eighth.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro073
|title=Finalmente Petacchi – Ale-Jet strikes back
|date=2007-05-15
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140918/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro073
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} Finally, after stage 4, the six-way tie involving the Liquigas riders who finished together in the team time trial was broken, as Di Luca won the stage into Montevergine and took the pink jersey again.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro074
|title=The Killer returns to Montevergine
|date=2007-05-16
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108103547/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro074
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}}
File:Enrico Gasparotto.jpg was unexpectedly the first race leader, having crossed the line first in the stage 1 team time trial ahead of his team's captain.]]
Di Luca held the race lead until the conclusion of stage 6, which was decided by a breakaway. Luis Felipe Laverde and Marco Pinotti were the last members of a five-man morning breakaway still together at the finish. Since Pinotti started the day better-placed in the overall classification and became the new race leader because of their time gap over the peloton, he allowed Laverde to take the stage win. Laverde took the green jersey as mountains classification leader after the stage.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro076
|title=Double success: Laverde Stage and Pinotti Rosa
|date=2007-05-18
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140922/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro076
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} The next three stages were flat and contested among sprinters and breakaways. This meant Pinotti was able to maintain his race lead with little difficulty, until stage 10, the Giro's next intermediate stage. The race's overall contenders showed themselves on this stage, with Leonardo Piepoli putting in a decisive attack {{convert|5|km|abbr=on}} from the summit of the Santuario Nostra Signora della Guardia to claim victory by 19 seconds over Di Luca. Pinotti finished more than four minutes back, and surrendered the pink jersey to Di Luca's teammate Andrea Noè, who was tenth on the stage. At age 38, Noè was the oldest rider in the Giro and the oldest ever to lead a Grand Tour. Di Luca took the green jersey after this stage, his second stint in the maglia verde to go along with his two in pink. {{UCI team code|SAX|2007|nolink=yes}}'s Andy Schleck took the white jersey after this stage by finishing third, after Di Luca passed him for second in the final kilometer.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0710
|title=Piepoli takes Santuario win – Noè new Rosa
|date=2007-05-22
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140848/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro0710
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}}
File:AndySchleck.jpg in the career of Andy Schleck, who finished second overall.]]
Stage 12 into Briançon in France was the Giro's first high mountain stage, and it shook up the standings for the final time. Di Luca took the stage win, twice attacking from an elite group of five that had made the climb together. As Noè finished nearly ten minutes behind, Di Luca took the pink jersey for a third time, while still holding the green jersey.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0712
|title=Di Luca takes day: Rosa and stage
|date=2007-05-24
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-12-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140850/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro0712
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}} As Di Luca concentrated on winning the race overall, Piepoli took the green jersey after stage 15, the race's queen stage, topping two of that stage's climbs in first position. His lead in the mountains classification quickly became unassailable, and he won the jersey in Milan. It was also on this stage that {{UCI team code|AST|2007|nolink=yes}}'s Eddy Mazzoleni distinguished himself as a podium contender, taking a minute and a half out of Di Luca to move into second overall. Schleck lost time to Di Luca and Mazzoleni, but gained time over other riders in the top of the overall standings and stood third overall.{{cite web
|author1 = Gregor Brown
|author2 = Tim Maloney
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0715
|title = Riccò takes his first on mythical Tre Cime di Lavaredo
|date = 2007-05-27
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-03-03
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140303095206/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0715
|archive-date = 3 March 2014
|url-status = live}}
The last minor change to the top of the overall standings took place during stage 17, to Monte Zoncolan. The stage itself was conquered by the {{UCI team code|FOT|2007|nolink=yes}} duo of Gilberto Simoni and Piepoli. Since the climb had personal significance for Simoni, having won a stage there four years earlier, his teammate allowed him to cross the line first. Schleck, for his part, was third, just seven seconds back, and gained over two minutes against Mazzoleni to move up to the second step of the podium. Mazzoleni fell to fifth on this stage,{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0717
|title=Simoni: King of Zoncolan
|date=2007-05-30
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-03-03
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303075909/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro0717
|archive-date=3 March 2014
|url-status=live
}} but returned to the podium after the race's final time trial. Mazzoleni's teammate Paolo Savoldelli won the stage by a comfortable margin, but Mazzoleni took back nearly all the time he had lost on the Zoncolan stage and finished the race third overall.{{cite web
|author1 = Gregor Brown
|author2 = Tim Maloney
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0720
|title = Savoldelli blasts into Verona
|date = 2007-06-02
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-03-03
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140303170807/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0720
|archive-date = 3 March 2014
|url-status = live}} Di Luca was not seriously challenged after taking the race lead in stage 12, and comfortably won the Giro in Milan with a two-minute gap over Schleck in second.{{cite web
|author1=Gregor Brown
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results/giro0721
|title=Petacchi reigns sprint king – Di Luca secures Giro win
|date=2007-06-03
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-03-03
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205125816/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=results%2Fgiro0721
|archive-date=5 December 2013
|url-status=live
}}
File:Danilo Di Luca en el Giro de Italia 2007.jpg.]]
Di Luca's team Liquigas was dominant. They took three stage wins, two with Di Luca himself to go along with the race's opening team time trial, and held the pink jersey for all but four days. With Alessandro Petacchi's disqualification (see below), Saunier Duval-Prodir took the most stage wins. Three of their victories came in the high mountains, with Piepoli, Riccò, and Simoni all winning high-profile stages. Iban Mayo added a breakaway win in Stage 18. {{UCI team code|ASA|2007|nolink=yes}} team leader Stefano Garzelli, a former Giro winner, also won two stages. Danilo Napolitano and Marzio Bruseghin both took wins for {{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}}, and four other teams were single stage winners. The teams classifications and the classifications which awarded jerseys were all won by teams who had won stages, meaning eight of the 22 teams in the race took significant victories.
=Doping cases=
The most noteworthy doping case from the 2007 Giro involved sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. Petacchi took five stage wins, but after the third of them, he tested non-negative for salbutamol, an asthma medication which Petacchi has a medical exemption to use.
{{cite news
|url = http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-heard-by-coni-over-salbutamol-use
|author = Antonio J. Salmerón
|title = Petacchi heard by CONI over Salbutamol use
|date = 2007-06-27
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2009-11-23
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120910205809/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-heard-by-coni-over-salbutamol-use
|archive-date = 10 September 2012
|url-status = live}} Petacchi was obligated as the stage winner to give a urine sample to the doping authorities, and it had a concentration of 1,352 nanograms per milliliter of salbutamol, above the 1,000 allowed by the medical exemption. Salbutamol has anabolic effects at high concentrations.
{{cite news
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/aug07/aug24news
|author=Laura Weislo
|title=Petacchi's case sent to CAS
|date=2007-08-24
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2009-11-23
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104081951/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news%2F2007%2Faug07%2Faug24news
|archive-date=4 January 2014
|url-status=live
}} Team Milram placed Petacchi on immediate provisional suspension following the Giro, which kept him from participating in the Tour de France later that season as he had planned. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) asked the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) for a one-year ban for Petacchi.
{{cite news
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jul07/jul05news
|author = Paul Verkuylen
|title = Sidelined Petacchi facing 12-month suspension
|date = 2007-07-05
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140112144116/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jul07/jul05news
|archive-date = 12 January 2014
|url-status = live}}
File:Alessandro Petacchi 20060816 056.jpg was embroiled in a doping controversy that was not fully resolved for almost a year.]]
The FCI refused to suspend Petacchi, and he returned to racing in late July.{{cite news
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/aug07/aug12news
|author=Paul Verkuylen
|title=Petacchi set to return, UCI to investigate
|date=2007-07-25
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620120054/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news%2F2007%2Faug07%2Faug12news
|archive-date=20 June 2013
|url-status=live
}} Their decision, however, was not made to exonerate Petacchi, but rather because they did not believe they should hear the case, instead deferring to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
{{cite news
|url = http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/antidoping-briefs-petacchi-piepoli-cleared-d-tour-blood-tests-moreni-kloden-reacts
|author = Cycling News
|title = Antidoping briefs: Petacchi, Piepoli cleared, D-Tour blood tests, Moreni, Klöden reacts
|date = 2007-08-12
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120910205935/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/antidoping-briefs-petacchi-piepoli-cleared-d-tour-blood-tests-moreni-kloden-reacts
|archive-date = 10 September 2012
|url-status = live}} The CAS heard the case, and Petacchi testified to the court, stating that the hot and humid day on which the stage was the run had made it so that he took several extra puffs from his inhaler, but that this was accidental and that most had come after he had already crossed the finish line and won the stage.
{{cite news
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=features/2008/petacchi_suspension_may08
|title=Innocently Guilty – the Petacchi case
|date=2008-05-09
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104043835/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=features%2F2008%2Fpetacchi_suspension_may08
|archive-date=4 January 2014
|url-status=live
}}
In its decision, the CAS ruled that Petacchi had likely not intended to cheat, but that he had not exercised the "utmost caution" it deemed necessary to abide by doping rules. Petacchi was suspended for a year, minus the time he had already sat out after Team Milram first provisionally suspended him, and his results from the Giro were all stripped.
{{cite news
|url = http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-suspended-for-one-year
|author = Susan Westemeyer
|title = Petacchi suspended for one year
|date = 2008-05-06
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120910210036/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-suspended-for-one-year
|archive-date = 10 September 2012
{{cite news
|url=http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/petacchi-banned-for-salbutamol-positive-96336
|author=Stephen Farrand
|title=Petacchi Banned for Salbutamol Positive
|date=2008-05-06
|work=Cyclingweekly.cou.uk
|publisher=IPC Media Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713163800/http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/petacchi-banned-for-salbutamol-positive-96336 | archive-date= 13 July 2014| url-status= live
}} Team Milram subsequently fired Petacchi,
{{cite news
|url = http://velonews.competitor.com/2008/05/news/road/milram-sacks-petacchi_76355
|author = VeloNews.com
|title = Milram sacks Petacchi
|date = 2008-05-15
|work = VeloNews
|publisher = Competitor Group, Inc
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140715005933/http://velonews.competitor.com/2008/05/news/road/milram-sacks-petacchi_76355
|archive-date = 15 July 2014
|url-status = live}} and he was without a team until late in the 2008 season. While the court's decision explicitly stripped Petacchi of his results from this race, it does not seem that it granted those victories retroactively to other riders.
{{cite news
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/may09/may11news
|author = Jean-François Quénet
|title = Petacchi refutes the idea of his cancelled wins
|date = 2009-05-11
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906231253/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/may09/may11news
|archive-date = 6 September 2015
Petacchi was not the only rider identified as giving a non-negative doping test during the Giro. Reports emerged in June that three riders were under suspicion of doping, later identified as Petacchi, Leonardo Piepoli, and Iban Mayo. Petacchi and Piepoli both gave tests showing elevated levels of salbutamol, while Mayo's had abnormally high testosterone levels.
{{cite news
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jun07/jun14news
|author=Jean-François Quénet
|title=Riders with non-negative Giro doping tests named
|date=2007-06-14
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104081102/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news%2F2007%2Fjun07%2Fjun14news
|archive-date=4 January 2014
|url-status=live
}} Mayo was quickly cleared, as further testing revealed that his testosterone levels were of natural origin and that his team {{UCI team code|FOT|2007|nolink=yes}} had informed the UCI of this. Though Piepoli's level of salbutamol was, at 1,800 nanograms per milliliter, even higher than Petacchi's,{{cite news
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/aug07/aug06news2
|author = Gregor Brown
|title = Piepoli heard by Monaco federation
|date = 2007-08-06
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140104081826/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/aug07/aug06news2
|archive-date = 4 January 2014
|url-status = live}} he was cleared by his national federation of any doping charges in August.{{cite news
|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/piepoli-cleared
|author=Cycling News
|title=Piepoli cleared
|date=2007-08-10
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120910210111/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/piepoli-cleared| archive-date=10 September 2012| url-status= live
}}
Giro champion Danilo Di Luca also gave an irregular doping test, after stage 17 to Monte Zoncolan. The test, given spontaneously hours after the routine test Di Luca gave for being race leader at the time, reportedly showed hormone levels like "those of a child," causing anti-doping authorities to suspect that Di Luca was using some means to cover the presence of banned substances.
{{cite news
|url = http://velonews.competitor.com/2008/05/news/road/cas-upholds-di-luca-suspension_75642
|title = CAS upholds Di Luca suspension
|date = 2008-05-01
|work = VeloNews
|access-date = 2009-11-07
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714233351/http://velonews.competitor.com/2008/05/news/road/cas-upholds-di-luca-suspension_75642
|archive-date = 14 July 2014
|url-status = live}} These unusual levels were not present in the routine test, leading to suspicions that Di Luca had received an autologous blood transfusion between the two tests.
{{cite news
|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/2008-04-01-4044563273_x.htm
|author=Andrew Dampf|agency=Associated Press
|title=Giro d'Italia champion Danilo Di Luca skips doping hearing
|date=2008-04-21
|work=USA Today
|publisher=Gannett Company
|access-date=2009-11-07| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121025192813/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/2008-04-01-4044563273_x.htm| archive-date=25 October 2012| url-status= live
}} A CONI commission later cleared Di Luca on the basis of insufficient evidence to conclude that he had doped.
{{cite news
|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=3349348&type=story
|agency=Reuters
|title=UPDATE 2-Cycling-Di Luca cleared of doping
|date=2008-04-16
|publisher=ESPN
|access-date=2009-11-07| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121103164635/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3349348&type=story| archive-date=3 November 2012| url-status= live
}}
Mayo and Piepoli would both test positive for erythropoietin later in their careers at the Tour de France,{{cite news
|url = http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mayo-tests-positive-for-epo
|author1 = Sue George
|author2 = Susan Westemeyer
|title = Mayo tests positive for EPO
|date = 2007-07-31
|work = Cycling News
|publisher = Future Publishing Limited
|access-date = 2010-01-17
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160312082547/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mayo-tests-positive-for-epo/
|archive-date = 12 March 2016
|url-status = live}}{{cite news
|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/piepoli-and-schumacher-tour-de-france-samples-positive-for-cera
|author1=Sue George |author2=Laura Weislo
|title=Piepoli and Schumacher Tour de France samples positive for CERA
|date=2008-10-07
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120408094322/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/piepoli-and-schumacher-tour-de-france-samples-positive-for-cera| archive-date=8 April 2012| url-status= live
}} and Di Luca likewise at the 2009 Giro d'Italia,{{cite web
|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-41628520090808
|title=Italian Di Luca's positive CERA test confirmed
|date=2009-08-08
|publisher=Reuters
|access-date=2009-08-08| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120913074756/http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/08/08/idINIndia-41628520090808| archive-date=13 September 2012| url-status= dead
}} all leading to lengthy suspensions, while Petacchi made a successful return to top-level cycling and to the Giro in 2009.{{cite news
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2008/interviews/?id=alessandro_petacchi_dec08
|title=Petacchi puts troubles behind for 2009
|date=2008-12-24
|work=Cycling News
|publisher=Future Publishing Limited
|access-date=2010-01-17
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091213073336/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2008/interviews/?id=alessandro_petacchi_dec08| archive-date= 13 December 2009 | url-status= live}}
Classification leadership
In the 2007 Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass start stages, the leader received a pink jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Giro d'Italia, and the winner is considered the winner of the Giro.{{cite web
|author1=Laura Weislo
|author2=Tim Maloney
|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=/features/2007/giro_classifications07
|title=Giro d'Italia classifications demystified
|date=2007-05-18
|publisher=Cycling News
|access-date=2009-12-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108140708/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/?id=%2Ffeatures%2F2007%2Fgiro_classifications07
|archive-date=8 January 2010
|url-status=live
}}
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a mauve jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. The stage win awarded 25 points, second place awarded 20 points, third 16, fourth 14, fifth 12, sixth 10, and one point less per place down the line, to a single point for 15th. In addition, some points could be won in intermediate sprints.
There was also a mountains classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized, either first, second, or third category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. The highest point in the Giro (called the Cima Coppi), which in 2007 was the Colle dell'Agnello in stage 12, afforded still more points than the other first-category climbs.
The fourth was the young rider classification, which awarded a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1982 were eligible. This classification was featured in the Giro in 2007 for the first time since 1994.{{cite web
|author = Gregor Brown
|url = http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/dec06/dec04news
|title = Maglia bianca returns to Giro d'Italia
|date = 2006-12-04
|publisher = Cycling News
|access-date = 2009-12-01
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140729210034/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/dec06/dec04news
|archive-date = 29 July 2014
|url-status = live}}
There were also two classifications for teams. The first was the Trofeo Fast Team. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added, and the team with the lowest time is leading team. The Trofeo Super Team was a team points classification, with the top 20 placed riders on each stage earning points (20 for first place, 19 for second place and so on, down to a single point for 20th) for their team.
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run. A year after the race, Alessandro Petacchi was stripped of all his results; this table reflects the stages and jersey awards he originally won.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size:smaller;" |
| style="background-color: #efefef;"
! width="1%" | Stage ! width="12%" | Winner ! width="14%"|General classification ! width="14%"| Points classification ! width="14%"| Mountains classification ! width="14%"| Young rider classification ! style="background:#efefef; width:14%;"|Trofeo Fast Team ! style="background:#efefef; width:14%;"|Trofeo Super Team |
| 1
| {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} | style="background:pink;" rowspan="1"| Enrico Gasparotto | style="background:#EFEFEF;"| not awarded | style="background:#EFEFEF;"| not awarded | style="background:white;" rowspan="3"| Enrico Gasparotto | style="background:#EFEFEF;"| not awarded | style="background:navajowhite;" | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} |
| 2
| style="background:pink;" rowspan="1"| Danilo Di Luca | style="background:violet;" rowspan="1"| Robbie McEwen | style="background:lightgreen;" rowspan="2"| Pavel Brutt | style="background:lightyellow;" rowspan="4"| {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} | style="background:navajowhite;" | {{UCI team code|AST|2007}} |
| 3
| style="background:pink;" rowspan="1"| Enrico Gasparotto | style="background:violet;" rowspan="1"| | style="background:navajowhite;" | {{UCI team code|GCE|2007}} |
| 4
| style="background:pink;" rowspan="2"| Danilo Di Luca | style="background:violet;" rowspan="1"| Robbie McEwen | style="background:lightgreen;" rowspan="2"| Danilo Di Luca | style="background:white;" rowspan="2"| Vincenzo Nibali | style="background:navajowhite;" | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007}} |
| 5
| style="background:violet;" rowspan="17"| | style="background:navajowhite;" | {{UCI team code|LAM|2007}} |
| 6
| style="background:pink;" rowspan="4"| Marco Pinotti | style="background:lightgreen;" rowspan="4"| Luis Felipe Laverde | style="background:white;" rowspan="2"| Hubert Schwab | style="background:lightyellow;" rowspan="2"| {{UCI team code|CSF|2007}} | style="background:navajowhite;" rowspan="4"| {{UCI team code|CSF|2007}} |
| 7 |
| 8
| style="background:white;" rowspan="2"| Alexandr Arekeev | style="background:lightyellow;" rowspan="7"| {{UCI team code|LAM|2007}} |
| 9 |
| 10
| style="background:pink;" rowspan="2"| Andrea Noè | style="background:lightgreen;" rowspan="5"| Danilo Di Luca | style="background:white;" rowspan="12"| Andy Schleck | style="background:navajowhite;" rowspan="12"| {{UCI team code|LAM|2007}} |
| 11 |
| 12
| style="background:pink;" rowspan="10"| Danilo Di Luca |
| 13 |
| 14 |
| 15
| style="background:lightgreen;" rowspan="7"| Leonardo Piepoli | style="background:lightyellow;" rowspan="1"| {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007}} |
| 16
| style="background:lightyellow;" rowspan="1"| {{UCI team code|CSF|2007}} |
| 17
| style="background:lightyellow;" rowspan="5"| {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007}} |
| 18 |
| 19 |
| 20 |
| 21 |
| colspan=2|Final
| style="background:#F660AB;" rowspan="1"|Danilo Di Luca | style="background:#B93B8F;" rowspan="1"| | style="background:#50C878;" rowspan="1"|Leonardo Piepoli | style="background:offwhite;" rowspan="1"|Andy Schleck ! style="background:yellow;"| {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007}} ! style="background:orange;"| {{UCI team code|LAM|2007}} |
|---|
Final standings
| class="wikitable" |
| colspan=4| Legend |
|---|
| Image:Jersey pink.svg
| Denotes the winner of the General classification {{cite web |language = it |url = http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLGEN |title = Classifica generale – General classification |work = La Gazzetta dello Sport |access-date = 2009-12-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130314002539/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLGEN |archive-date = 14 March 2013 |url-status = live }} | Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification {{cite web |language=it |url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLGPMGEN |title=Classifica GPM Generale – Mountains classification |work=La Gazzetta dello Sport |access-date=2009-12-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121012172544/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLGPMGEN| archive-date=12 October 2012| url-status= live }} |
| Image:Jersey violet.svg
| Denotes the winner of the Points classification {{cite web |language = it |url = http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2008/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLPUNGEN |title = Classifica a punti generale – Points classification |work = La Gazzetta dello Sport |access-date = 2009-12-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212208/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2008/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLPUNGEN |archive-date = 3 March 2016 |url-status = live }} | Denotes the winner of the Young rider classification {{cite web |language=it |url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2008/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLGENGIO |title=Classifica Generale Giovani – Young rider classification |work=La Gazzetta dello Sport |access-date=2009-12-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121012135732/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2008/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLGENGIO| archive-date=12 October 2012| url-status= live }} |
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{{col-2}}
=General classification=
| class="wikitable" |
| !Rider
!Team !Time |
|---|
| 1
| {{flagathlete|Danilo Di Luca|ITA}} Image:Jersey pink.svg | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| 92h 59' 39" |
| 2
| {{flagathlete|Andy Schleck|LUX}} Image:Jersey white.svg | {{UCI team code|SAX|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 1' 55" |
| 3
| {{flagathlete|Eddy Mazzoleni|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|AST|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 2' 25" |
| 4
| {{flagathlete|Gilberto Simoni|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 3' 15" |
| 5
| {{flagathlete|Damiano Cunego|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 3' 49" |
| 6
| {{flagathlete|Riccardo Riccò|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 7' 00" |
| 7
| {{flagathlete|Evgeni Petrov|RUS}} | {{UCI team code|TCS|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 8' 34" |
| 8
| {{flagathlete|Marzio Bruseghin|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 10' 14" |
| 9
| {{flagathlete|Franco Pellizotti|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 10' 44" |
| 10
| {{flagathlete|David Arroyo|ESP}} | {{UCI team code|GCE|2007|nolink=yes}} | align="right"| + 11' 58" |
{{col-2}}
=Mountains classification=
| class="wikitable" |
| !Rider
!Team !Points |
|---|
| 1
| {{flagathlete|Leonardo Piepoli|ITA}} Image:Jersey green.svg | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 79 |
| 2
| {{flagathlete|Fortunato Baliani|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|CSF|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 46 |
| 3
| {{flagathlete|Danilo Di Luca|ITA}} Image:Jersey pink.svg | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 45 |
| 4
| {{flagathlete|Gilberto Simoni|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 41 |
| 5
| {{flagathlete|Riccardo Riccò|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 36 |
| 6
| {{flagathlete|Yoann Le Boulanger|FRA}} | {{UCI team code|BBO|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 24 |
| 7
| {{flagathlete|Luis Felipe Laverde|COL}} | {{UCI team code|CSF|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 23 |
| 8
| {{flagathlete|Andy Schleck|LUX}} Image:Jersey white.svg | {{UCI team code|SAX|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 20 |
| 9
| {{flagathlete|Damiano Cunego|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 17 |
| 10
| {{flagathlete|Marzio Bruseghin|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 15 |
{{col-end}}
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
=Points classification=
| class="wikitable" |
| !Rider
!Team !Points |
|---|
| | | align=right| |
| 2
| {{flagathlete|Danilo Di Luca|ITA}} Image:Jersey pink.svg | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 130 |
| 3
| {{flagathlete|Paolo Bettini|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|QST|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 120 |
| 4
| {{flagathlete|Maximiliano Richeze|ARG}} | {{UCI team code|CSF|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 107 |
| 5
| {{flagathlete|Leonardo Piepoli|ITA}} Image:Jersey green.svg | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 93 |
| 6
| {{flagathlete|Gilberto Simoni|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 92 |
| 7
| {{flagathlete|Stefano Garzelli|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|ASA|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 91 |
| 8
| {{flagathlete|Andy Schleck|LUX}} Image:Jersey white.svg | {{UCI team code|SAX|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 85 |
| 9
| {{flagathlete|Riccardo Riccò|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 76 |
| 10
| {{flagathlete|Damiano Cunego|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 76 |
{{col-2}}
=Young rider classification=
| class="wikitable" |
| !Rider
!Team !Time |
|---|
| 1
| {{flagathlete|Andy Schleck|LUX}} Image:Jersey white.svg | {{UCI team code|SAX|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| 93h 01' 34" |
| 2
| {{flagathlete|Riccardo Riccò|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 5' 05" |
| 3
| {{flagathlete|Domenico Pozzovivo|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|CSF|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 22' 00" |
| 4
| {{flagathlete|Vincenzo Nibali|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 29' 47" |
| 5
| {{flagathlete|Branislau Samoilau|BLR}} | {{UCI team code|ASA|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 32' 24" |
| 6
| {{flagathlete|Mauro Facci|ITA}} | {{UCI team code|QST|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 1h 07' 00" |
| 7
| {{flagathlete|Olivier Bonnaire|FRA}} | {{UCI team code|BBO|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 1h 24' 46" |
| 8
| {{flagathlete|Amael Moinard|FRA}} | {{UCI team code|COF|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 1h 24' 52" |
| 9
| {{flagathlete|Carl Naibo|FRA}} | {{UCI team code|ALM|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 1h 33' 11" |
| 10
| {{flagathlete|Matthias Russ|GER}} | {{UCI team code|GST|2007|nolink=yes}} | align=right| + 1h 34' 56" |
{{col-end}}
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
=Trofeo Fast Team classification=
| class="wikitable" |
| !Team
!Time |
|---|
| 1
|{{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 278h 11' 31" |
| 2
|{{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 3' 53" |
| 3
|{{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 6' 06" |
| 4
|{{UCI team code|AST|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 6' 56" |
| 5
|{{UCI team code|CSF|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 10' 15" |
| 6
|{{UCI team code|ASA|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 1h 02' 26" |
| 7
| {{UCI team code|GCE|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 1h 51' 04" |
| 8
|{{UCI team code|COF|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 1h 52' 21" |
| 9
|{{UCI team code|SIL|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 1h 53' 14" |
| 10
|{{UCI team code|QST|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| + 2h 21' 31" |
{{col-2}}
=Trofeo Super Team classification=
| class="wikitable" |
| !Team
!Points |
|---|
| 1
|{{UCI team code|LAM|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 408 |
| 2
|{{UCI team code|LIQ|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 364 |
| 3
|{{UCI team code|CSF|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 359 |
| 4
|{{UCI team code|FUJ|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 336 |
| 5
|{{UCI team code|AST|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 287 |
| 6
|{{UCI team code|SAX|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 261 |
| 7
|{{UCI team code|ASA|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 237 |
| 8
|{{UCI team code|QST|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 219 |
| 9
|{{UCI team code|TCS|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 212 |
| 10
|{{UCI team code|GCE|2007|nolink=yes}} |align=right| 205 |
{{col-end}}
=Minor classifications=
File:Michail Ignatiev Paris-Roubaix.jpg won the Traguardo Volante Garibaldi and Trofeo Fuga Gilera classifications.]]
Other less well-known classifications were awarded during the Giro, whose leaders did not receive a special jersey. These awards were based on points earned throughout the three weeks of the tour. Each mass start stage had one intermediate sprint, awarding points to the Traguardo Volante Garibaldi classification. These sprints gave bonus seconds towards the general classification, points towards the regular points classification, and also points towards the Traguardo Volante Garibaldi. This award was known in previous years as the Intergiro, and was previously time-based, awarding a blue jersey. {{UCI team code|TCS|2007|nolink=yes}} rider Mikhail Ignatiev won this classification.
{{cite web
|language = it
|url = http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=110KMGEN
|title = Traguardo Volante Garibaldi
|work = La Gazzetta dello Sport
|access-date = 2009-12-03
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200801/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=110KMGEN
|archive-date = 3 March 2016
|url-status = live
}}
Additional minor classifications included the combativity classification, which was a compilation of points gained for position on crossing intermediate sprints, mountain passes and stage finishes. Alessandro Petacchi was the original winner, but with all his 2007 Giro results forfeited, it appears there is no official winner of this award.
{{cite web
|language=it
|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLCOMGEN
|title=Classifica combattività generale
|work=La Gazzetta dello Sport
|access-date=2009-12-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121012172604/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLCOMGEN| archive-date=12 October 2012| url-status= live
}} The Azzurri d'Italia classification was based on finishing order, but points were awarded only to the top three finishers in each stage. Petacchi originally won this as well.
{{cite web
|language = it
|url = http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLAZZGEN
|title = Class. azzurri d'italia generale
|work = La Gazzetta dello Sport
|access-date = 2009-12-03
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203328/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLAZZGEN
|archive-date = 3 March 2016
|url-status = live
}}
Also, the Trofeo Fuga Gilera rewarded riders who took part in a breakaway at the head of the field, each rider in an escape of ten or fewer riders getting one point for each kilometre that the group stays clear. Along with the Traguardo Volante Garibadli, Mikhail Ignatiev also finished first in this classification.
{{cite web
|language=it
|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLFUGGEN
|title=Fuga gilera generale
|work=La Gazzetta dello Sport
|access-date=2009-12-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121012172621/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLFUGGEN| archive-date=12 October 2012| url-status= live
}} Teams were given penalty points for minor technical infringements. {{UCI team code|FDJ|2007|nolink=yes}} was not assessed any penalties, and so was the winner of the Fair Play classification.
{{cite web
|language=it
|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLFAPGEN
|title=Classifica FAIR PLAY
|work=La Gazzetta dello Sport
|access-date=2009-12-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121012172632/http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/classifiche/it/classifica.shtml?t=21&c=CLFAPGEN| archive-date=12 October 2012| url-status= live
}}
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References
=Citations=
{{reflist|30em}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2007/en/}}
- [http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/giro07/ cyclingnews.com] – race reports and news features
{{UCI ProTour2007}}
{{Giro d'Italia}}
{{Cycling stage recaps|2007 Giro d'Italia|1|11|12|21}}
{{Giro d'Italia general classification winners}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giro D'italia, 2007}}