2007 Giro d'Italia

Map of Italy showing the path of the race in red and green lines, starting on the island of Sardinia and crossing the Tyrrhenian Sea to the southern part of the mainland, then heading north, going counter-clockwise to eventually end in Milan
Overview of the stages:
route from Caprera, in Sardinia, to Milan covered by the riders on the bicycle (red)
and distances between stages (green).
Race details
Dates12 May – 3 June 2007
Stages21
Distance3,486 km (2,166 mi)
Winning time92h 59' 39"
Results
Winner  Danilo Di Luca (ITA) (Liquigas)
  Second  Andy Schleck (LUX) (Team CSC)
  Third  Eddy Mazzoleni (ITA) (Astana)
Points Alessandro Petacchi none
Mountains  Leonardo Piepoli (ITA) (Saunier Duval–Prodir)
Youth  Andy Schleck (LUX) (Team CSC)
  Sprints  Mikhail Ignatiev (RUS) (Tinkoff Credit Systems)
  Combativity Alessandro Petacchi none
  Team Saunier Duval–Prodir
  Team points Lampre–Fondital
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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.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Drug charge ends Petacchi Tour bid". CNN. Time Warner. 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  2. ^ Charles Pelkey (7 May 2008). "CAS suspends Petacchi". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2008.