{"id":39570,"date":"2021-11-06T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=39570"},"modified":"2021-11-06T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T15:04:20","slug":"mansour-bin-mohammed-meets-with-participants-of-giro-ditalia-criterium-dubai-at-expo-2020-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/11\/06\/mansour-bin-mohammed-meets-with-participants-of-giro-ditalia-criterium-dubai-at-expo-2020-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansour bin Mohammed meets with participants of Giro d&#8217;Italia Criterium Dubai at Expo 2020 Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/category\/t2\/HH_Sheikh_Mohammed_bin_Rashid_Al_Maktoum\">Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum<\/a>, Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, today met with international cycling stars that participated in the Giro d\u2018Italia Criterium Dubai race, which was held at Expo 2020 Dubai on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was held in the presence of Mattar Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, and Saeed Hareb, Secretary General of Dubai Sports Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H.H. said: &#8220;Expo 2020 Dubai is the biggest global event to take place, and we are pleased to see, among the many international events being organised at the venue, Giro d\u2018Italia Criterium being hosted for the first time outside of Italy in Dubai.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The presence of top riders from around the globe here at the race in Dubai reflects the power of sports in bringing people and nations together, which is the chief essence of the theme of Expo 2020 Dubai: \u2018Connecting Minds, Creating the Future\u2019. The Giro d\u2019Italia also confirms Dubai\u2019s reputation as one of the top destinations for international sporting events,&#8221;he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first cycling event of its kind, Giro d\u2018Italia Criterium Dubai featured some of the world\u2019s top cycling stars including 2021 Giro d\u2019Italia winner Egan Bernal; three-time UCI Road Race World Champion Peter Sagan; Elia Viviani, a nine time Grand Tour stage winner and winner of the omnium gold at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games; 2021 Giro d\u2019Italia winner of the KOM Classification Geoffrey Bouchard; and two-time UCI ITT World Champion Filippo Ganna, who has won six stages of the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organised by RCS Sport with the support of MadeinItaly.gov.it, Dubai Sports Council and Expo 2020 Dubai, the event was held near the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. The riders competed across 30 laps of a 2.1km criterium circuit that was shaped in the form of Giro d\u2019Italia\u2019s \u2018Amore Infinito\u2019 symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The international riders also participated in the Dubai Ride on Friday and expressed their great admiration for the event, which was held on Sheikh Zayed Road in the heart of Dubai, with the participation of more than 32,000 riders of different ages and nationalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin&nbsp;Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, today met with international cycling stars that participated in the Giro d\u2018Italia Criterium Dubai race, which was held at Expo 2020 Dubai on Saturday. The meeting was held in the presence of Mattar Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39572,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39570\/revisions\/39572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}