Giro d’Italia 2022: Who’s riding? How can I watch it on TV? Can Britain's Simon Yates win the maglia rosa?

WHEN IS THE GIRO D’ITALIA 2022? The wait is almost over: the first Grand Tour of 2022 gets under way on Friday 6th May with the first of three stages in Hungary before La Corsa Rosa makes its way to the Italian mainland via a stint on the island of Sicily. The 105th edition culminates with a time trial in Verona on Sunday 29th May.

Ad/> WHO’S RIDING? Giro d'ItaliaGiro d’Italia: 7 key stages in the battle for pink2 HOURS AGO Former champions Tao Geoghegan Hart, Richard Carapaz, Tom Dumoulin and Vincenzo Nibali are among the stand-out names on the provisional startlist of 176 riders for the Giro. Italian veteran Nibali, the 2013 and 2016 champion, will co-lead Astana-Qazaqstan alongside the Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez; Dumoulin, the Dutch 2017 winner, makes his first Grand Tour appearance for Jumbo-Visma since his DNF in the 2020 Vuelta and subsequent sabbatical; while the 2019 and 2020 champions Carapaz and Geoghegan Hart are part of an Ineos Grenadiers longlist that also includes (at least, for now) the British young talent, Tom Pidcock.

A more likely push to become the third British winner in five years will come from Simon Yates (BikeExchange-Jayco), who finished third last year and famously came within two days of the overall win in 2018, only to lose the pink jersey the day Chris Froome put in his now legendary solo attack on the Colle delle Finestre. Frenchman Romain Bardet (Team DSM) will hope to build on his recent triumph in the Tour of the Alps, while Bahrain Victorious boast two genuine contenders in the Spanish duo of Mikel Landa and Pello Bilbao.