The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
Nacer Bouhanni (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Alberto Contador at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
Cadel Evans and Alberto Contador (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
Raimondo Zanaboni and Paolo Bellino (Image credit: Lapresse)
UCI president Brian Cookson (Image credit: Lapresse)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Riders at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Rigoberto Uran wore a pink bowtie at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Cadel Evans was honoured at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Marco Corti, Valerio Tebaldi, Fabio Duarte and Claudio Corti (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Nacer Bouhanni, Michal Kwiatkowski, Rigoberto Uran, Fabio Aru, Alberto Contador, Ivan Basso and Julian Arredondo (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Julian Arredondo and Rigoberto Uran at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Alberto Contador and world champion Michal Kwiatkowskit at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The audience seated on white lounges at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Cadel Evans, Alberto Contador and Michal Kwiatkowski at the 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The 2015 Giro d'Italia route presentation (Image credit: Lapresse)
RCS Sport today unveiled the route for the 2015 Giro d'Italia, Milan's Palazzo del Ghiaccio, a former ice rink, with a sea of white lounge chairs in which the race's former and current stars held court.
Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso, former champions of the Italian Grand Tour, took to the stage with world champion Michal Kwiatkowski, this year's points jersey winner Nacer Bouhanni, mountains classification winner Julian Arredondo, the retiring former world champion Cadel Evans, Rigoberto Uran and stage winner Fabio Aru during the presentation.
The riders reacted positively to the route, which includes six summit finishes, six flat stages for the sprinters, a team time trial and a lengthy individual time trial in what is being touted as a "modern, balanced route".
Enjoy this gallery of images from the presentation.
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