Video: New Giro d'Italia director promises to respect riders
Start in USA a goal, but not a reality
RCS Sport managing director 🔴Michele Acquarone, the new director of the Giro d'Italia, promꦚised to pay more attention to taking care of the racers in future editions and listen more to the feedback of cycling fans.
Acquarone , whose course designs made the Giro bigger, grander, and more difficult in recent years, but which also were the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:subject of criticism from riders because of long transfers and dang﷽erous roads.
The new director said he listened 🍌to the feedback of the race's fans, and promised b✱etter conditions for the 2012 edition.
"We have to be closer with the riders, because we are just the organisers, they are the superstars - they are the champions and people want the stars, they don't care a𒁃bout us. We have to speak with them to do the best possible. We have to stick with the riders, and try to do the best as we can because they need to show their🥀 talent when they challenge in Italy."
But Acquarone has to balance his company's goal of building new audiences across the globe with eꦗnsuring that riders won't face unreasonable transfers.
He said that a start in the USA, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:which was proposed for 2012, is still a goal, but that💦 it's not possible right now without sacrificing the riders' concerns.
"I always say that꧙ this is a big target, this is our dream, nowadays it's not possible. I'm very worried about the jetlag. I can't say we will take care of riders and then we give them six hours of jetlag like that. We have to think very quietly what we want to do, but this is our main goal and our biggest dream."
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Growth is always on the mind of a businessman, but Acquarone said that his company has to find new fans in new markets just to survive. He is looking to gain new fans as well as develop newer races such as the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Strade Bianche, which he hopes to develop into a major Classic.
"The Strade Bianche is a very beautiful project, it's perfect for a race. We will 𒅌develop the project in the next years to make it ꦬa big classic. Even if it's a new race, it's a classic. The world needs to be able to see it better and to watch it on TV."