2007 Giro d'Italia
Overview of the stages:
route from Caprera, in Sardinia, to Milan covered by the riders on the bicycle (red) and distances between stages (green). |
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| Dates | 12 May – 3 June | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,486 km (2,166 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 92h 59' 39" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Danilo Di Luca (ITA)
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(Liquigas) |
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| Second |
 Andy Schleck (LUX)
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(Team CSC) | |
| Third |
Eddy Mazzoleni (ITA)
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(Astana) | |
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Points |
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Mountains |
Leonardo Piepoli (ITA)
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(Saunier Duval–Prodir) |
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Youth |
Andy Schleck (LUX)
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(Team CSC) |
| Team | Saunier Duval–Prodir | ||
| Team Points | Lampre–Fondital | ||
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 Liquigas team won the race, with Andy Schleck from Team CSC and Eddy Mazzoleni from Astana 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. 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.
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, Unibet.com 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.
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