{"id":820087,"date":"2026-10-31T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:20:13","slug":"theyve-destroyed-cycling-bardiani-csf-7-saber-boss-gives-scathing-assessment-of-the-uci-after-italian-team-unable-to-race-giro-ditalia-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820087\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They\u2019ve destroyed cycling’ – Bardiani-CSF-7 Saber boss gives scathing assessment of the UCI after Italian team unable to race Giro d\u2019Italia in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bardiani-CSF-7 Saber<\/a> team finished outside of the UCI\u2019s top-30 rankings in 2026, making them ineligible to race a Grand Tour next season.<\/p>\n

Reverberi said that it is likely that Bardiani-CSF-7 Saber will shutter due to the current regulations, which he says are making teams at the ProTeam level increasingly fragile, with no guarantees of invitation to the world\u2019s biggest races.<\/p>\n

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The long-standing team has raced every edition of the Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> since 1982 and is well known for its attacking style. Bardiani-CSF-7 Saber has been a fruitful breeding ground for Italian talent over the years, including the team\u2019s last Giro stage-winner, Giulio Ciccone<\/a>, who won in Sestola in 2016. Sonny Colbrelli and Giulio Pellizzari are two other names to have emerged through this system.<\/p>\n

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The team has also been involved in several doping scandals over the years, with the likes of Emanuele Sella and Stefano Pirazzi banned during their time on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur project is to stop,\u201d Reverberi told the TriCiclo Podcast<\/a>. \u201cHow can you spend \u20ac5 million and not have the right to race? There is no future, and cycling has no future. We have already thought about closing in two years. In fact, we have taken four or five new riders and made them sign for only one year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t even have the courage to go to the sponsor and ask for money,\u201d he said, despite signing a \u201cmulti-year agreement\u201d with Uzbek clothing company 7 Saber at the start of this season.<\/p>\n

Reverberi\u2019s main charge towards the UCI is its points system, which he believes is encouraging teams to race for top-10s rather than chase glory in the breakaway.<\/p>\n

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It is perhaps the team\u2019s reticence to play the game as other teams have done which left them languishing down the UCI points rankings, 121 below Euskaltel-Euskadi, who travelled to Algeria and Panama in the last weeks of the 2026 season in their search for points.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur way of racing was to break away,\u201d he said. \u201cNow you don\u2019t even break away, because you try to keep the rider there to sprint for tenth place for those damned UCI points,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UCI is incompetent. They\u2019ve destroyed cycling,\u201d he concluded, suggesting that while the top of the sport explodes in its popularity and financial investment, the lower-level is breaking apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve reached a bit of a peak with Poga\u010dar in some ways, but everything is falling apart underneath,\u201d he said. \u201cCycling is disappearing, and nobody\u2019s looking at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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