As the Giro d'Italia moves fully into its second week, the stage hunters are coming to the fore - meaning that while other WorldTour squads are looking at GC opportunities, XDS Astana's exclusive focus on stage wins will now be put to the test.
The Kazakh squad has come to the 2025 Giro with multiple and very diverse types of racers. Riders like Diego Ulissi, winner of eight such transition stages like the tricky finale in Matera, and Wout Poels, who has taken mountains stages in the Tour and Vuelta but never in the Giro, say they are both ready to be in the thick of the action.
