{"id":11401,"date":"2025-06-10T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:36:13","slug":"bgy-airport-granfondo-2026-appuntamento-il-10-maggio-ritirato-il-dorsale-123-in-memoria-di-michele-negri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/bgy-airport-granfondo-2026-appuntamento-il-10-maggio-ritirato-il-dorsale-123-in-memoria-di-michele-negri\/","title":{"rendered":"BGY Airport Granfondo 2026: Save the Date &#8211; May 10. Bib Number 183 Retired in Memory of Michele Negri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Official date announced: the Bergamo granfondo returns on 10 May with a special gesture in memory of Michele Negri.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the release of the 2025\u20132026 Serie A calendar, the official date for the next edition of the <strong><em>BGY Airport Granfondo<\/em><\/strong> has also been confirmed: the event will take place on <strong>Sunday, May 10, 2026<\/strong>, once again in <strong>Bergamo<\/strong> \u2013 a city with a deep-rooted cycling tradition and a land of strong emotions on two wheels.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the date comes with a symbolic gesture of profound emotional and human value. Starting in 2026, the organizing committee has decided <strong>to retire bib number 183<\/strong> in memory of <strong>Michele Negri<\/strong>, the young cyclist from Milan who tragically passed away following an accident during the most recent edition of the Granfondo.<\/p>\n<p>It is a simple yet deeply meaningful gesture, aimed at honoring his memory and expressing, once again, the organization\u2019s closeness to his family and to all those who loved him. Michele had a deep passion for cycling, just like the many riders who every year choose to ride through the stunning landscapes of the Bergamo province.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the event has chosen to symbolically retire a race number to honor the memory of a special person. In 2004, bib number 50 was retired in memory of <strong>Davide Fardelli<\/strong>, an entrepreneur and passionate cyclist who passed away prematurely in a road accident. In 2022, the number 1 was retired as a tribute to <strong>Felice Gimondi<\/strong>, a timeless icon of Italian cycling and a historical symbol of the Granfondo.<\/p>\n<p>These small but powerful gestures reflect the <strong>true spirit of the BGY Airport Granfondo<\/strong> \u2013 an event that puts people and their connection to the bicycle at its heart, even when time seems to stand still.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official date announced: the Bergamo granfondo returns on 10 May with a special gesture in memory of Michele Negri. &nbsp; With the release of the 2025\u20132026 Serie A calendar, the official date for the next edition of the BGY Airport Granfondo has also been confirmed: the event will take place on Sunday, May 10, 2026, once again in Bergamo \u2013 a city with a deep-rooted cycling tradition and a land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicati-stampa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}