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Giro Mountain Stages

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  • October 24, 2011 at 6:45 pm #14397
    lucas

    I was looking at the mountain stages for the Giro:

    http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2012/en/index.shtml?refresh_ce

    I see they have color codes for the mountains. I see a lot of green ‘GPM’ labels on the mountains, for example.

    Does anyone know what the codes mean? Is green a ‘CAT 1’? Are there whites for a ‘CAT 3’ or ‘CAT 4’?

    If anyone knows, or knows of page where it’s all explained, please let me know! đŸ™‚ Thanks!

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  • March 12, 2012 at 9:23 pm #656593
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    zzgavin

    Thanks Simon, that’s very
    Thanks Simon, that’s very helpful

    March 10, 2012 at 8:31 pm #656591
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    Simon_MacMichael

    Lucas – No distinction made
    Lucas – No distinction made between Tirreno climbs, same points apply to all of them.

    zzgavin – More a case of graphics employed by different organisers (although yeah language does come in too with eg Gran Premio della Montagna).

    But when you look at a stage profile (esp once Giro has updated with Cat of climbs) it’s obvious what’s what.

    Vuelta is part-owned by ASO and uses same web platform as the TDF so that’s not too difficult to get head round.

    March 10, 2012 at 8:00 pm #656589
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    zzgavin

    Looks like this might be the
    Looks like this might be the spur for a useful article comparing the French, Italian, Spanish et al codes for racing? They can be a bit opaque and a GPM means mountain competition and has these symbols etc would be helpful.

    March 10, 2012 at 10:44 am #656587
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    lucas

    Gkam84 wrote:Yeah the will be

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Yeah the will be categorized nearer the time :B

    I was looking at the stage profiles for Tirreno Adriatico at http://www.steephill.tv/tirreno-adriatico/ but their profiles still only say ‘GPM’… How would you know if a climb is a Cat 1, 2, 3 etc?…

    October 28, 2011 at 4:17 am #656585
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    Gkam84

    Yeah the will be categorized
    Yeah the will be categorized nearer the time :B

    October 24, 2011 at 11:44 pm #656583
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    lucas

    dave_atkinson wrote:… it

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    … it just means they haven’t categorised all the climbs yet…

    So eventually they’ll be categorized as Cat 1, Cat 2, etc?

    Simon_MacMichael wrote:
    ’TV’… [stands] for ‘Traguardo Volante’… Intermediate Sprint.

    That’s pretty cool. Inever quite got that. Thanks! đŸ™‚

    October 24, 2011 at 8:28 pm #656581
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    Simon_MacMichael

    What used to mess with my
    What used to mess with my head was seeing ‘TV’ at a random point on the Giro stage maps. At one point I wondered whether it was where the live TV coverage of a stage kicked in, but then why would it be near the start of one stage and at the end of another?

    Took me a longer time than I will admit to work out that it stood for ‘Traguardo Volante’ = (literally) ‘Flying Threshold’= Intermediate Sprint.

    Still, it’s not like I lived in Italy for a year or anything. Ahem. Che vergogna…

    :”>

    October 24, 2011 at 8:02 pm #656579
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    dave atkinson

    GPM stands for Gran Premio
    GPM stands for Gran Premio della Montagna, which is just the mountains competition. it just means they haven’t categorised all the climbs yet…

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