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Gianni Savio's hopes of a168澳洲5最新开奖结果: join✃t Androni Giocattoli-Nippo-Vini Fantini team at the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Giro d'Italia have been short lived, with Mauro Vegni, the head of cycling at organiser RCS Sport confirming to Cyclingnews that he has noꦍ intention of inviting an extra tea⛦m.

RCS Sport awarded two 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:wild cards to Italian teams: Bardiani-CSF and Wilier Triestina-Southeast, and two others to t🥀he Russian Gazprom-RusVelo 🐻team and CCC Sprandi Polkowice of Poland.

Savio called for a special exemption from the rules t♍o assign a fifth wild card to a mixed team, composed of four riders from Androni-Sidermec and four from Nippo-Fantini. He argued that with eight extra riders on the road safety would not be a compromised and he pointed to the 2011 edition of the race as an example. That year RCS granted a special dispensation for an extra wildcard team, in order to celebrate 150 years since Italy's Unification.

It would not have been Savio's first experience with a mixed team at a grand t𝄹ou⛦r. He was team manager for ZG Mobili when it share a spot with Team Telekom at the 1995 Tour de France.

Vegni is at the Dubai Tour, which is also organised by RCS Sport. He initially did not want to even comment on Savio's suggestion but then told Cyclingnews: "Everyone has the freedom to make any propoꦜsal they want but the truth i𒅌s that as a company RCS Sport has made its choices for the four wild card for the Giro d'Italia and we’re not going to change out minds.

"I've already explai💎ned that our choices are based on sporting, commercial and strategic reasons. There's nothing personal against Androni Giocattoli or Nippo-Vini Fantini, they know that. But as ཧa privately owned company, we've got the right to decide who gets the four final wild card teams."

Immediately after announcing the four wild card teams, Vegni warned the Italians team they need to have a better long-term development plan 🧜if they want to secure a place in the Giro d'Italia.

"The crisis in Italian cycling doesn't stem from the (team) choices by the Giro, but by the fact the movement has for years been based upon the wrong business model: 'I need to ride the Giro or else I'll close the team'," Vegni told Gazzetta dello Sport.

"That's no way to think. We'll always give Italian cycling attention, but the Giro can't be everything and the other races ꧒count for nothing. The team who won't ride the Giro will ride Strade Bianche, Tirreno and Milan-San Remo. It is wrong to say everything🌊 depends on the Giro. That means the teams don't have plans."