<\/p>\n“These initiatives have a positive impact, they\u2019re appreciated by the countries we visit but also by Italians who are familiar with a new territory. We\u2019re boosting Italian exports, and this is a goal for our country,” Cairo went on to explain.<\/p>\n
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“The Giro d\u2019Italia is an ambassador for sport around the world, bringing it to a foreign country opens up all sorts of opportunities,” he added.<\/p>\n
Earlier this summer, Bulgaria\u2019s minister of tourism, Miroslav Borshosh, had revealed the country\u2019s interest in hosting the race. “We\u2019re finalising talks about one of the biggest world events \u2013 Giro d’Italia \u201cGrande Partenza\u201d \u2013 an event that puts the host country on the world map in terms of tourism and recognition as a destination. It\u2019s one of the biggest sporting events,” Borshosh said.<\/p>\n
Cairo didn\u2019t reveal any details about potential stages in Bulgaria, but the race is likely to get under way in the country\u2019s capital, Sofia, in line with the 2022 Grande Partenza, which started in the Hungarian capital of Hungary, and this year\u2019s edition that kicked off with a stage into the Albanian capital of Tirana.<\/p>\n
The full route of the 2026 Giro, which is set to run from 9-31 May, is due to be revealed before the end of the year. When this presentation takes place, it will be interesting to see how RCS deal with the logistical and administrative issues bound up with starting the race a thousand kilometres to the east of its home country.<\/p>\n
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While a plane transfer seems inevitable given this distance, UCI rules lay out that race organisers are only permitted to request an extra travel day once every four years. This year\u2019s corsa rosa required an extra travel day after its Albanian Grande Partenza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giro d\u2019Italia owners RCS have confirmed that next year\u2019s 109 edition of the corsa rosa will start in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-205496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}