The 2025 Giro d’Italia is predicted to start out in Albania, with the newest stories in Italy suggesting that race organiser RCS Sport continues to be negotiating with the Albanian authorities.
Solutions that RCS may transfer the Grand Partenza and the opening stage of the 2025 Corsa Rosa from Albanian to Sicily have been dismissed by RCS CEO Paolo Bellino.
“No change of plans, no downside with Albania, the November 12 press convention was postponed solely due to a technical downside,” Bellino stated final week.
RCS Sport has refused to remark additional because the deliberate route presentation for November 12 was cancelled. Nevertheless, they continue to be satisfied and decided that the 2025 Giro d’Italia will begin in Albania.
The route of the 2026 Giro d’Italia and the Giro d’Italia ladies ought to have been revealed in Rome subsequent Tuesday. No new date for the presentation has been introduced, leaving riders and groups uncertain of the best way to plan their 2025 targets.
A lot of the boys’s route has been leaked by native media however groups will need readability and affirmation earlier than committing to focus on the 2025 Giro d’Italia.
Italian state broadcaster RAI, which holds the rights to point out the race in Italy, revealed the issues with Albania final week. They’ve since contacted the workplace of Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama however had been merely instructed: “There’s nothing new to say.”
RAI commentators Andrea De Luca and Beppe Conti advised of their weekly RadioCorsa biking present that there have been nonetheless ‘main issues’ and {that a} last contract between RCS Sport and Albania nonetheless has not been signed, with Albania apparently providing a decrease payment for the Grande Partenza that had been initially mentioned.
They advised the following ten days can be ‘frenetic.’
