Ok, so we’re not going to create a race thread for ALL races this year, especially since we’re only about 10 people reading here :)
This thread is available for you to write about all the races which don’t have a race thread.
Ok, so we’re not going to create a race thread for ALL races this year, especially since we’re only about 10 people reading here :)
This thread is available for you to write about all the races which don’t have a race thread.
Tour of the Appenines 🇮🇹 ① (26/4/2026)
The Giro dell’Appennino will take place tomorrow Sunday, at the same time as Liège–Bastogne–Liège. As the Appenines are the name of the mountain range that forms the whole Italy and this a 1-day race, it obviously only uses a very small part of it: the Ligurian Appenine near France, that it crosses, starting from the plain of Novi-Ligure in the North, and going southwards (through several loops) to reach the Mediterranean Sea in Genoa.
Victim of the collision of all mountain races at the same time, it won’t host a single WT, and only 4 PT.
We may be able to watch it live on https://telenord.it/diretta-streaming after 13:45 (I wouldn’t put my money on it, but…)
PCS page
This must be an important factor, but I also suspect that as those races are often organised, not by big sport/entertainment event organising companies, but by small local cycling clubs, they cannot afford paying big teams for coming. There are the official fees (2600 € to each WT/PT for a 1.1), and… there is the racket by big teams who demand extra money to come or to send a ‘big’ name, as the official fee is only a minimum amount.
I couldn’t watch it. I guess it was a matter of broadcasting rights, as the broadcast introducing the race was streamed.