The diplomatic work representing RCS Sport & Events and the teams participating in the next Giro d'Italia has not yet yielded the expected results, and the parties remain quite far apart. At the center of the dispute, even before the official presentation of the 2025 route as Il Giornale had written, the grand start from Bulgaria with teams requesting economic support for the expenses to be incurred. The teams, in fact, must prepare an almost simultaneous double transfer: they must move men and means to Bulgaria for the first three stages while simultaneously sending them to Catanzaro, where the pink race will restart upon returning to Italy.

As happens every time a challenging departure is addressed, RCS Sport & Events has allocated a sum to be allocated to the teams: according to the site escapecollective, the proposed figure would be 115,000 euros plus a 5,000 euro discount to be used with airlines stopping in Burgas, but the AIGCP, the representative body of professional teams, would have requested 160,000 euros.

RCS Sport's counterproposal arrived at 125,000 but it is evident that the parties are still far apart, and resorting to a third judge, in this case the Professional Cycling Council of the UCI, cannot be ruled out. Especially because time is running short: disputes of this nature are never decided in a few hours, and in just 131 days the Giro must depart...