RCS Sport has been assigned the organisation of the Giro d’Italia Giovani Below 23 starting in 2023 and the Giro d’Italia Donne starting in 2024, after the Italian Biking Federation constructed a rigorously devised bid-process that resulted in RCS Sport being the one contender.
The FCI confirmed that RCS Sport would organise the Giro d’Italia Giovani Below 23 for a five-year time period between 2023 to 2027 and the Giro d’Italia Donne on a four-year time period from 2024 to 2027.
The FCI defined that the bidding course of expired on February 1 with just one applicant. The small print of the RCS Sport bid and plan for the 2 Italian stage races shall be revealed at a particular press convention.
“We’re very completely satisfied to have assigned the group to a topic with confirmed organizational abilities who will be capable to arrange editions which are as much as par and meet the wants of the motion,” mentioned President of FCI, Cordiano Dagnoni.
“The large occasions, such because the Giro U23 and Giro Donne, are basic not solely from a technical sporting perspective but additionally for the native authorities concerned who profit from an financial and promotional perspective.”
RCS Sport already organises the boys’s Giro d’Italia, Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo, Il Lombardia and a variety of different smaller races, making a close to monopoly of racing in Italy.
The Giro d’Italia Donne is at the moment organised by PMG Sport/Starlight, a corporation that took over the ladies’s stage race in 2021 and 2022 from long-time organiser Giuseppe Rivolta.
The Giro d’Italia Donne and Tour de France Femmes. the 2 largest races of the yr, will each be held in July, earlier than the inaugural UCI Biking World Championships held in Glasgow. The Giro Donne shall be held between June 30-July 9, once more throughout the males’s Tour de France, with the Tour de France Femmes coming after the boys’s race from July 23-30.
There have been complaints a few ignorance on the route, leaving groups unable to plan for his or her main targets of the season.
“I can verify that the group continues to be PMG Sport/Starlight,” a consultant of PMG Sport/Starlight instructed Cyclingnews relating to the 2023 version.
PMG Sport/Starlight has not introduced the route of this yr’s Giro d’Italia Donne however has confirmed to Cyclingnews that it’s going to finish in Sardinia, with the group discussing the departure from Rome.
The UCI downgraded the 10-day occasion to the ProSeries in 2021 as a result of the earlier organisers didn’t provide reside broadcasting of the race in 2020, which is a requirement to be part of the Ladies’s WorldTour, together with different organisational issues.
At the moment, in 2020, the race was often known as the Giro d’Italia Femminile or Giro Rosa and was held in September as a part of the late-season revised calendar hit by COVID-19.
Below the improved administration of PMG Sport/Starlight, the race returned to the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2022.
It stays probably the most historic races on the ladies’s calendar and the one race accessible that provides 10 days of racing together with iconic mountain passes such because the Stelvio, Zoncolan, Gavia, and Mortirolo. The race will rejoice its thirty fourth anniversary in 2023.
The newest winners embrace defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten who received titles in 2018, 2019 and 2022 and now-retired Anna van der Breggen received the race in 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2021. Different winners embrace Megan Guarnier, twice Mara Abbott and three-time Marianne Vos.
Giro d’Italia Giovani Below 23, now in its forty sixth version, is scheduled to run from June 10-17. RCS Sport will take over the organisation of the occasion from the Extragiro group, made up of Nuova Ciclistica Placci and the Communication Clinic, which organised the race from 2018-2022.
The occasion has served as a chance for younger riders to indicate their strengths amongst their friends between the ages of 19 and 22 and the place group managers scout up-and-coming expertise to develop within the WorldTour.
Leo Hayter received final yr’s total title whereas racing for Hagens Berman Axeon after which joined Ineos Grenadiers as a trainee in August, later signing a contract by 2025.
Different winners of the Giro d’Italia Giovani Below 23 within the final 5 editions which have made their mark on the elite rank embrace Juan Ayuso (UAE Group Emirates), Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), Andrés Camilo Ardila (now Burgos-BH), Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Pavel Sivakov (Ineos Grenadiers).
The under-23 race began in 1970 and was cancelled in 1987, 2005, 2007-2008, and from 2013-2016.
The Giro d’Italia Donne and Giro d’Italia Giovani Below 23 transfer beneath RCS Sport’s umbrella of occasions that additionally embrace its marque Giro d’Italia and two Monuments Milan-San Remo and Il Lombardia, together with WorldTour races Tirreno-Adriatico, and Strade Bianche.
