Panini Giro d'Italia 2018

The Giro d'Italia 2018 was the 101st edition of the famous cycling race across Italy. This edition started with three stages in Israel, before moving to Italy for 18 further stages. 22 teams with some of the best riders in the World took part in the competition. Chris Froome, former winner of the Tour de France, won the Maglia Rosa (Pink Jersey) of the overall classification, beating the defending champion Tom Dumoulin. He won also the blue jersey of the mountain classification, whereas Elia Viviani won the points classification (cyclamen jersey) and Miguel Angel Lopez the white jersey of the young rider classification.

After the success of the previous edition, Panini published another sticker collection of the race, the second ever dedicated by Panini to the Giro d'Italia. Also this collection combines stickers and cards, with 395 stickers and 73 cards that can be found in regular packets and additional 16 stickers with the "film" of the race, released with two special sealed packets by the Italian magazine Gazzetta dello Sport. 

The album shows on the cover Tom Dumoulin, the winner of the Giro 2017, and it starts with some introductory sections. The first page includes the logo of the race and the trophy. Albo d'Oro is a section with the winners of the race and the stickers of the mascot Lupo Wolfie and the different jerseys (pink, blue, cyclamen, white). I numeri del Giro includes records and facts with numbers of the previous editions. Here there are the stickers of the trophy (puzzle of two stickers) and the logo of the magazine Gazzetta dello Sport. The last section before the participating teams is about the route of the race 2018 (Il percorso). Here there are the stickers of the mascot Wolfie on the bike and the overall route 2018. 

The 22 participating teams are shown in alphabetical order. For each team there are 16 stickers over two pages: the team photo (2 stickers) and 14 riders. A selection among the possible participating riders was made by Panini for each team. Therefore, some big names like Nibali and Valverde are not included in the album due to their statement of not taking part in the race.

More special sections are included at the end of the album. Uomini che fecero l'impresa (men who did an exploit) tells about some of the greatest achievements of riders during the history of the Giro d'Italia through 15 stickers of front pages of the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. Among them the most recent are some sensational stages of Indurain, Pantani, Basso and Nibali.

Giro d'Italia - Hall of fame celebrates six of the greatest past winners with stickers in action: Merckx, Gimondi, Moser, Baldini, Hinault, Indurain. No sticker for Roche. The seventh sticker of this section is the mascot Wolfie taking a selfie. The album continues with 8 stickers of locations hosting stages during the Giro d'Italia 2018. 

The last section with stickers is the "Film" of the race 2018, with 16 extra stickers released with the sport newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. These stickers celebrate winners of key stages and the final jerseys of the race. 

Each packet of the collection includes four stickers and one card. The checklist of the 73 different cards available is at the last two pages of the albums. The cards of this collection cover the stages of the race (22 cards), the team jerseys (22 cards), bikes (23 cards), and special jerseys (6 cards).

Back of the album Panini Giro 101

The card holder to keep the 73 cards of this collection

Some cards of this collection, about stages, jerseys and bikes of the teams, and special jerseys

Top riders at Quick-Step: Julian Alaphilippe and Elia Viviani

Stickers of Chris Froome and Tom Dumoulin, first and second position in the Giro 2018

Album details

Full name: Giro d'Italia - Amore Infinit01

Publisher: Panini

Release: May 2018

Sport: Cycling

Competition: Giro d'Italia

Year: 2018

Number of teams: 22

Stickers per team: 16

Other sections:

• Introduction (2 stickers)
• Albo d'Oro (5 stickers)
• I numeri del Giro d'Italia (3 stickers)
• Il percorso (2 stickers)
• Uomini che fecero l'impresa (15 stickers)
• Hall of fame (8 stickers)
• Planimetria (2 stickers)
• Salite (2 stickers)
• Città di partenza (2 stickers)
• Città di arrivo (2 stickers)

Update: Giro d'Italia - Il Film (16 stickers - G1-G16)

Extra: 73 cards with card holder

• Stages (22 cards)
• Shirts (22 cards)
• Bikes (23 cards)
• Special shirts (6 cards)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 411 (+ 73 cards)