Giro del Trentino high-flying again: 2012 last stage on Passo Pordoi top
After Alpe di Pampeago and Madonna di Campiglio, organizers chose Coppi and Simoni's mountain as final last stage's field
Alpe di Pampeago in 2010, Madonna di Campiglio in 2011, Passo Pordoi next year. Giro del Trentino keep choosing climbs that have done the cycling history as last stage’s field: 36th edition, as always organized by GS Alto Garda and scheduled on April 17th-20th, 2012, doesn’t make exception.
Last out of four stages will finish on Passo Pordoi approached by riders by Canazei’s slope: a 13-km climb, starting by 1456mt since the height of 2242mt, with an height difference of 786mt and a 6% gradient.
This legendary mountain keeps Fausto Coppi memory alive (a monument placed atop the climb was just dedicated to him), but also tied in recent times to Gilberto Simoni who got his first Giro d’Italia’s pink jersey on Passo Pordoi, in one of most beautiful days of his career. “Remember that day is really exciting for me, every time I tackled Pordoi I felt the same emotion. Pordoi means too much for me, it’s the place where my career began and, at the same time, finished, cause my last bike shall remain there forever, jammed in a rock atop the climb”, Simoni explains.
Simoni even underlined the landscape’s beauties of this stage: “Such a climb brings prestige to Giro del Trentino. A beautiful uphill placed into a fantastic landscape, as only Trentino can offer”.
The Giro del Trentino’s last stage, moving from Castelletto di Brenzone, on Garda Lake, will join lake and mountain, Trentino tourist proposal’s major attractions, although further stages offering nice scenarios as well: the Mocheny Valley, well known as “Enchanted valley”, to be ridden across during the second stage, with finish line in Sant’Orsola; or “Punta Veleno”, third stage’s climax with plenty of expectations.There is nothing left to do but enjoy the show, as always happened in Giro del Trentino’s over thirty-year history.
