Five years in the Professional category, five Giro d'Italia participations: RCS Sport, the main organizer of cycling races in Italy, has officially confirmed the wild-card for the Polti VisitMalta Team for the pink race that will take place from May 9th to June 1st.

From 2021 to 2025, colors and denomination have changed, but the prominent role of the Alberto Contador Foundation structure in Italian and international cycling continues to confirm and consolidate itself, legitimized at the Giro by two stage victories and an always proactive approach. Emblematic, in this sense, was the dominance in the breakaway classification last year.

This is the comment by Ivan Basso, team principal of Polti VisitMalta: "The fifth invitation to the Giro d'Italia fills us with pride and fuels responsibility and desire to amaze. Our constant growth has allowed us to gain credibility with organizers and the general public, building a community that started from the fans of the two founders and has come to involve the Team Polti fans from the Nineties and today's enthusiasts."

Thus the team's general manager Fran Contador: "We thank RCS for the continued trust they place in us. This demonstrates how we have distinguished ourselves, not only with successes on Zoncolan (2021) and Gran Sasso (2023) but with the ambitious seriousness we intend to bring to the Giro's roads and other major races this year."