Giro d'Italia 2020 could feature gravel time trial on Mount Etna

An individual time trial of around 27km could head up the volcano in Sicily

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The 2020 Giro d'Italia, after it starts in Budapest, is eyeing a time trial climb on Mount Etna's volcanic gravel ash roads to 2,850 metres.

The 2020 plan sees the Giro d'Italia starting in Hungary for the first time with three stages before a transfer to Catania, in Sicily. There the details are hard to come by, except that locals are pushing for Mount Etna stage – to altitudes higher than the Stelvio Pass.

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