The Italian Junior Championships next weekend in Veneto and the youth championships in July in Boario Terme will award the last road titles. Meanwhile, Comano Terme and Mordano hosted the shows for the other categories.
Trentino style
The organizers of the GS Alto Garda, which in April put on the road the Tour of the Alps in Trentino where the last Tricolour Week was organised in 2012, they brought home an excellent result, with the pace of the great event: the 2021 European Championships in Trento They're still a fresh memory. From Thursday to Sunday, individual time trials for all categories took place, followed by road trials for professionals and elite women.
Trentino has created a system and the Comano Terme area has become the scene of events characterised by efficiency and without concessions to pompThe routes were well received by athletes and technicians, typical products were tasted in the hospitality areas, and the reception was kept open. a gateway to tourism and it seems that the only gala dinner organized on Saturday saw the participation of a few guests.
The pros on Saturday
However, the decision to swap the Saturday and Sunday races, giving the professionals priority over the women, has caused controversy. The decision, announced on March 2nd at the presentation of the event, had already been aired in December, when the Italian technicians went to Comano to view the routes.
The reason for the move, as explained by Maurizio Evangelista (general manager of the GS Alto Garda), is in having wanted to provide an extra recovery day for the athletes who will be competing in the Tour and a more important showcase for the elite women. The choice also created some problems.
The media flight
The first brings dishonor to the category to which we belong. Following the professional race, the correspondents of some of the most prestigious newspapers were called back to the base. So yesterday to tell Elisa Longo Borghini's victory, except for the author, our colleagues from Tuttobiciweb and InBici.net met up again. After having to digest the lack of live television coverage of the time trial, the Italian champion has swallowed another bitter pill.
The second one created a clear overlap between the organizers from Trentino and those from Romagna who had the under 23s' tricolour scheduled for Saturday, conquered by Francesco Busatto. Someone among those who are responsible for studying calendars could he have noticed this in the three months available and put forward possible solutions? Could it have been considered that the Italian championships were being proposed at a time when they were fully mature? Today Eleonora Ciabocco, who ran in Comano yesterday, had her oral exams…
The flood in Romagna
A premise is now necessary. After the flood in Romagna, to maintain the U23 championship The Extra Giro men had to redesign a new route in record timeThe roads of Riolo Terme and the surrounding hills are in fact impassable, and who knows for how long they will remain so. It seems to be their fate, which also speaks of a flexible structure and good organizational skills. If Trento organized the European Championships, let's not forget that the year before Extra Giro he pulled out of the hat a world cup in record time.
No longer the track inspired by those world championships, therefore, but a new one that recalled Imola 1968: Adorni's world championship. The situation would have required that the institutions had a special eye. That the president, for example, went to the place, instead of sending Federal Councillor Cazzola.
If the U23 championship had been moved to Sunday, would it have received more media attention? Would anything have changed if women had run on Saturdays? And if someone had thought of a high-level design, could connections from Romagna have been made during the pro race? Would RAI have faced the costs of another broadcast from Mordano? Most likely not.
The moment of Extra Giro
It's no mystery that, after having prospered thanks to the external support of Cassani and with the backing of president Di Rocco – reviving the Giro U23, organizing races in the post-pandemic period and even those 2020 World Championships – Extra Giro was sidelined, following the fate of Cassani himselfWhen things go like this, unfortunately, the tendency is to jump off the bandwagon. Sponsors. Friends. Politicians. The media... It may be annoying, but certainly not surprising.
However, it depends on how you experience the discomfort. If anger takes over, because urgency, discouragement, tiredness, and exasperation often lead to anger, it can happen that the tone rises.
Selleri is on the verge of giving up everything and This probably explains the post on Facebook in which he complimented the athletes of Comano Terme, but impressed the organizational capacity of the GS Alto Garda. We understand that in the subsequent phone call between him and Maurizio Evangelista, the tone was not conciliatory: quite the oppositeThe conflict is between adults, they will be able to manage it very well without external intervention.
A sterile war
Sponsors go where they get the most, the biggest mistake is to fall into a gang war. The GS Alto Garda has been going its own way for years, without even seeking agreements with other entitiesIt's their choice, which, for example, takes them out of the League's negotiations for television rights and onto a completely independent track.
Extra Giro is struggling to find resources and visibility, damaged for example by the The Giro d'Italia U23 has been handed over to RCS Sport, with a tender process that is inaccessible to them.This may be annoying, but pointing the finger at those who are staying afloat is the most common mistake. For example, remember that in the days when the U23 Giro was favored by sponsors and clubs, The organizers of the Val d'Aosta – far from Roman logic – were biting the bullet, but always remained silent.
Instead of taking justice into their own hands on social media, It would be more useful to ask the FCI for answers. For example, on the reasons behind the huge outlay for the Giro Donne or on the extension of the League's administration. Affiliated companies are members with voting rights and are shareholders of the Federation.: it's time they stopped feeling like injured parties or trying to get the right friendships. Let them get to the heart of the choices, if anythingIt's much better to get on with your work without having to thank anyone. And if anything goes wrong, ask for better work or to fire those who can't get the car running.
