Giro d'Italia

Israel Start-Up Nation takes aims at Vuelta in the Tour de France

After successful debuts at the Tour de France and Giro, blue-and-white cycling team in Spain for final Grand Tour race.

AFTER COMPETING in the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, the Israel Start-Up Nation riders are set for today’s Vuelta a España start, October 2020.
ISRAEL START-UP NATION rider Alex Dowsett celebrates his eighth-stage victory in the Giro d’Italia cycling race over the weekend

Israel Start-Up Nation wins historic Giro stage

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Italian Tourist Board in Israel wishes Israeli team luck in Giro d'Italia

Rick Zabel takes home the maglia azzurra during the first stage of the 2020 Giro d'Italia

Great start for blue-and-white cycling at Giro d'Italia


Grapevine: The Bike Age

A round-up of news from around Israel.

GIRO D’ITALIA cyclists at the entrance to Yad Vashem.

Israel Cycling Academy to race in the Tour de France

According to a statement by the team, ICA signed an agreement with Katusha Management: the Israeli team will race in the World Tour under the existing Katusha license.

Israel Cycling Academy's Colombian sprinter Edwin Avila raises his hands in triumph after winning Stage 3 of the Tour de Taiwan yesterday, the team’s first win of the 2018 season. Another part of the team’s squad completed its participation yesterday in the snowy Tirreno Adriatico (inset), an elite

Israel Cycling Academy takes part in the 2019 'Giro d’Italia'

In 2018 Israel hosted the three opening stages of the "Giro," marking the first time that a Grand Tour held a stage outside Europe.

 Sylvan Adams (C, blue), honorary president of Giro d'Italia's "Big Start" Israel, rides before the begining of the stage at the 101st Giro d'Italia cycling race in Jerusalem, May 4, 2018

Will Madonna appear at the Eurovision?

KAN mum on report that billionaire Sylvan Adams is eager to fund performance

Stevie Wonder and Madonna perform "Purple Rain" during the tribute to Prince at the 2016 Billboard Awards May 22, 2016

Pedaling a new path: new bike trails inaugurated in Tel Aviv

The mayor added: “This new path will give thousands of commuters a healthier and safer path to work.”

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (second from left) and Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams (right) inaugurated the first section of a 110-kilometer network of bicycle trails that will turn Tel Aviv into the Amsterdam of the Middle East on December 2, 2018

Billionaire Sylvan Adams joins Israeli space project aiming for the moon

SpaceIL announced Monday that Adams would be joining their groundbreaking project and donating $5 million to the effort.

President of SpaceIL Morris Kahn with Canadian-Israeli businessman Sylvan Adams at IAI's MBT Space Divisio

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Giro d'Italia in Israel: Far more than a cycling race

For many years Israel advocates have sought to sell an image of “brand Israel” that differs from the headlines about conflict and politics.

Israeli fans cheer for the riders during the 2nd stage of the 101st Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy, on May 5, 2018, 167 kilometers between Haifa and Tel Aviv.

Giro d’Italia, Mahmoud Abbas and Jerusalem

The launching of the race in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is a sign of solidarity, of identification.

TEAM SKY rider Chris Froome of Britain starts the 101st Giro d’Italia cycling race in Jerusalem on May 4

Top cyclists launch historic Giro d’Italia race on Jerusalem’s roadways

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev revealed the government has invested about NIS 30 million in the initiative.

Israel Cycling Academy co-owner Sylvan Adams (right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)

Ahead of Giro d’Italia, Gino Bartali honored for heroism during WWII

Yad Vashem posthumously grants Bartali Israeli citizenship.

A hiking trail named after the late Italian cyclist and Righteous Among the Nations Gino Bartali, May 2, 2018.