The 2026 Giro will start in Bulgaria
Although race organizer RCS has yet to announce anything, Bulgarian officials held a press conference on Wednesday to announce that the Giro d'Italia will start in their country next year. The 2026 Grande Partenza, following on from an Albania start last year, would mark the first time the race has visited Bulgaria.
The news comes one day after the UCI announced bans and fines for Bulgarian Cycling Federation president Evgeniy Balev Gerganov and vice-president Danail Petrov Angelov for a variety of ethics violations. The ethics commission's decision cited regulations on "general principals," "protection of physical and mental integrity," and "conflicts of interest," with Angelov in particular "also found to have breached article 8.1 (Manipulation of cycling events)" of the UCI Code of Ethics.
