{"id":319543,"date":"2025-12-02T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319543\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:42:08","slug":"giro-ditalia-2026-race-will-begin-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319543\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d&#8217;Italia: 2026 race will begin in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bulgaria will host the first three stages of the 2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia &#8211; the second successive year it will begin outside Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albania hosted the opening three stages of this year&#8217;s race in May, which since 2010 has started abroad seven times, including Jerusalem in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-week event will take place 8-31 May and finishes in Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 edition will cover 3,458km with about 50,000 metres of elevation gain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulgaria will host the first three stages of the 2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia &#8211; the second successive year it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-319543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}