{"id":599709,"date":"2026-05-23T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599709\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:38:18","slug":"a-bit-unusual-giro-ditalia-boss-not-happy-with-early-2028-tour-de-france-date-announcement-over-olympics-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599709\/","title":{"rendered":"“A bit unusual” – Giro d’Italia boss not happy with early 2028 Tour de France date announcement over Olympics clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 2028 games kicking off on July 14th, riders doing the Tour are likely to have preparation majorly impacted even after the announcement of the earlier start date. The move has not been welcomed by the Corsa Rosa boss.<\/p>\n

Usually beginning in early May and concluding at the end of the month, Giro organisers RCS Sport have long campaigned to the UCI<\/a> for the race to be brought forward by roughly a week to allow for several reasons, most notably more favourable weather conditions that have hampered high-mountain stages throughout the decades.<\/p>\n

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However RCS Sport CEO Paolo Bellino has slammed ASO, the organisers of the Tour de France for making the announcement unilaterally – before the 2028 UCI international calendar has been confirmed.<\/p>\n

‘Inappropriate’ announcement\u201cI find it inappropriate for the Tour to announce its start date without inserting it into an international calendar approved by the UCI,\u201d Bellino told Domestique. <\/a><\/p>\n

Bellino stressed that the Giro ‘certainly can’t’ move their start date back to account for the change: \u201cRight now, we\u2019re not moving because we\u2019re in the slot that we\u2019ve always been in, and we certainly can\u2019t move to an April start.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Olympics that year, we need to find an agreement on a comprehensive international calendar and not one that\u2019s only about the Tour de France. Making an announcement like that without having agreed it at international level first is a bit unusual.”<\/p>\n

Bellino hopes agreement on Giro start date can be reached<\/p>\n

However, Bellino is confident that the Giro start date can be moved, with hopes also centered around running the race during the Festa della Repubblica national holiday on June 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve known for some time that the Olympics are when they are, but we also want to move the Giro back by a week, so in that case, there would be only two weeks between the Giro and the Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve again asked the UCI to have the Giro start a week later, and we want to do that from 2027,\u201d Bellino added. \u201cWe haven\u2019t spoken about 2028 yet, we\u2019re only talking about 2027, but we\u2019ve made the request. I\u2019m very confident, because they\u2019ve been saying for years that it\u2019s ok, so now let\u2019s hope that next year we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2028 games kicking off on July 14th, riders doing the Tour are likely to have preparation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,20995,10258,101,6549,16595,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-olympic-games","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uci","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}