The Giro d'Italia will remain in the hands of RCS Sport, which is part of the RCS Media Group. That is the clear intention of Urbano Cairo, the new president of the company "To sell RCS Sport? No way. I'm not crazy! "Instead, Cairo plans to bring the race back to the heights it had in the seventies.

In 2015 it became clear that RCS is in large debt and that the sports division could possibly be sold. Those rumours were already denied in December 2015. In fact, RCS Sport is one of the few profitable divisions of the parent company RCS Media Group.

The plan is to bring the Giro to the same level sas the Tour de France.

"We will work together with the Frenchmen," Cairo told Cyclingnews  about an upcoming collaboration with ASO. He did not elaborate on the details.

"I hope the Giro d'Italia can again be the big race it was in the seventies, in every way, especially economically, so that we can invest and make it even bigger and better. It must return to the level of the Tour de France," said the president.