{"id":9416,"date":"2022-05-07T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.felicegimondi.it\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2022-05-07T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:25:03","slug":"finalmente-torna-la-gimondi-ci-sono-tutti-manca-solo-felice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/finalmente-torna-la-gimondi-ci-sono-tutti-manca-solo-felice\/","title":{"rendered":"Granfondo Gimondi returns in Bergamo, first time without Felice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tomorrow, Sunday, May 8th, 3500 participants will join the Granfondo after two years off due to the pandemic: touching moments awaited at the first edition without the Italian champion, passed away in 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Few words and great emotion: tomorrow, <strong>Sunday May 8th<\/strong>, the <strong>24th edition<\/strong> of the <strong>Granfondo Internazionale Felice Gimondi \u2013 Bianchi<\/strong> will kick off at <strong>7 am<\/strong>, the first time without the late Italian champion. All the <strong>3500 participants<\/strong> will ride on <strong>Bergamo<\/strong>\u2019s road to honour his name, hoping for the good weather to last until the end of the race. However, it will be a one-of-a-kind edition, and a great fest, even without Felice.<\/p>\n<p>The riders who signed-up for the 2022 Granfondo Gimondi come from <strong>25 Countries<\/strong> and <strong>5 Continents<\/strong>, from the United States to New Caledonia, from Chile to Norway. The routes available are the usual <strong>short<\/strong> (<strong>89,4 km<\/strong>) and <strong>medium<\/strong> (<strong>128,8 km<\/strong>) ones, while the long course has been modified due to a road break on Thursday, counting now on a total of <strong>145 km<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary operations have already started today, <strong>Saturday, May 7th<\/strong>, in the \u201c<strong>Lazzaretto<\/strong>\u201d headquarters, where title sponsor Bianchi and other partners showcase their brands at the Expo Village.<\/p>\n<p>The weather is expected to be cloudy with warm temperatures, while the rain shouldn\u2019t come until 4 pm, once the race will be over. The start will be featured by the 22 \u201c<strong>Puntuali<\/strong>\u201d, those who joined every single edition of Granfondo Gimondi since 1996. The event is valid for <strong>5 Granfondo Series<\/strong>: Al\u00e9 Challenge, Brevetto dei Campionissimi, Maglia Nera, Prestigio and Zero Wind Show.<\/p>\n<p>Safety on the course is guaranteed by over <strong>300<\/strong> on-field specialists, together with more than <strong>70<\/strong> vehicles on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes of \u201c<strong>Obiettivo3<\/strong>\u201d, the project of Italian paralympic icon Alex Zanardi encouraging disable athletes to take on sports, will also be at the start in Bergamo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Sunday, May 8th, 3500 participants will join the Granfondo after two years off due to the pandemic: touching moments awaited at the first edition without the Italian champion, passed away in 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9416","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\/9416","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}