You cannot follow the Giro d’Italia as a spectator: you must also love it, understand it (it is our business card, one of the most important), not be afraid of feelings, and be saddened by not being able to follow it live, even though it is a perfect sport. for TV. As Anna Maria Ortese, the first writer to follow the race («the first clandestine woman of the republic of cycling letters», according to Sergio Zavoli), wrote in 1955: «That May was the most extraordinary, the most fascinating, and also the first and last May of childhood. Because anyone who starts with the Giro becomes, for a month, a child.”
Maybe then, in front of the Giro party, everyone became children, they knew how to be patient, they didn’t complain about the roads being closed for the passage of the caravan. We should learn from Frenchmen who consider the Tour a three-week long national holiday. The exploits of the runners, especially those of Tadej Pogacar or Filippo Ganna, king of the time trial, must not make us forget who tells us about these exploits: it is our job.
The head of the sector is Auro Burbarelli, an enthusiast and RaiSport spread many programs over the course of the day. Obviously, for those who can, the live broadcast is the most engaging moment. There are five of them to tell it: the chronicle of Francesco Pancanithe technical comment of the returnee Davide Cassani (in the cabin after eleven years) and the cultural narratives of the writer Fabio Genovesi (wonderful!). With them, on motorbike, Stefano Rizzato and Giada Borgato. After years of commentary, there is a lot of harmony between the five: they know that they speak not only to enthusiasts and specialists (the phenomenology of the amateur cyclist deserves a separate chapter: he continually talks about his performances even with strangers, he talks about his exploits, as if he looked for confirmation in others) but to an audience that loves to discover through running an Italy he doesn’t know, the enchantment of the landscape, the history of the towns. Ortese again: «Men of every class look at the runners as lucky and dear brothers».
Pancani, Cassani, Genovesi, don’t get tired of admonishing those spectators who wait for the Giro just to take a selfie!
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