{"id":3,"date":"2026-10-07T22:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:58:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medio-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For people who watched the race and want to understand what they saw. La fagIAnata covers road cycling with data and with artificial intelligence: the times, the watts, the wind, the gaps, and the odds before the start. It is a project by <a href=\"https:\/\/tinke.it\">Tinke<\/a>, a company that develops artificial intelligence systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name comes from the Italian word Riccardo Magrini brought into race commentary: a <a href=\"\/en\/what-is-a-fagianata\/\">fagianata<\/a> is the attack nobody sees get away. No surge, no noise, and by the time the bunch notices, it&#8217;s gone. That&#8217;s how we&#8217;d like to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who we write for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, for people who watch the races and know what a watt is. Then for people who love numbers and want to see all of them. And for people who follow women&#8217;s cycling, which we cover with the same numbers as the men&#8217;s. If you&#8217;ve just switched on the TV and want to know where the race is, everything is on the <a href=\"\/en\/races\/\">race<\/a> page, with the live coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What cycling we cover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Professional road racing, men and women: Classics, Monuments, Grand Tours, the whole <a href=\"\/en\/calendar\/\">calendar<\/a>.<\/li><li>The Italians, wherever they race: they are the thread that ties everything else together.<\/li><li>Cyclocross and track racing in the winter, with the calendars (<a href=\"\/en\/calendar\/cyclocross\/\">cyclocross<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/calendar\/track\/\">track<\/a>) and the results; for cyclocross, the fagIAno too.<\/li><li>Under-23s in the main Italian races; juniors, who are minors, only in the data: in the results and in the rider pages.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Four formats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every piece has a job, and the section it sits in tells you which.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"\/en\/category\/preview\/\">Preview<\/a><\/strong>: before the start. The route, the wind, the favorites, where it can be decided.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"\/en\/category\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/strong>: as soon as the race is over. Who won, how, and our numbers.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"\/en\/category\/analysis\/\">Analysis<\/a><\/strong>: the day after. The times on the climbs, the VAM, watts per kilo, the gaps.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"\/en\/category\/stories\/\">Stories<\/a><\/strong>: cycling as it was, built on our archive, with the sources.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around them are the <a href=\"\/en\/races\/\">race<\/a> pages, with the day&#8217;s races live, the <a href=\"\/en\/riders\/\">rider<\/a> pages and the fagIAno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The fagIAno<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fagIAno (Italian for \u201cthe pheasant\u201d, the bird in our logo) gives every starter a probability of winning. Before the start the probabilities are frozen, with a SHA-256 fingerprint that lets anyone check they haven&#8217;t changed since. After the finish we print the receipt: what we said, what happened. Even when we got it wrong. All the receipts are in <a href=\"\/en\/fagiano\/#registro\">the fagIAno&#8217;s record<\/a>; how it works is in <a href=\"\/en\/method\/#fagiano\">How we work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we write<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short sentences, numbers with a range, no superlatives. The headline says what happened. When the fagIAno gets it right and when it gets it wrong, we say so the same way: at Il Lombardia we gave Paul Seixas 11%. He won. The <a href=\"\/en\/races\/il-lombardia-2026\/\">receipt<\/a> is on the race page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our manifesto, in eight points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Every number has a source and a range.<\/strong> Official numbers come from the UCI and the organizers; the ones we estimate come with their interval, or with \u00ababout\u00bb.<\/li><li><strong>Predictions are frozen before the start, and the receipt always comes out.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The headline says what happened.<\/strong> No questions, no exclamation marks.<\/li><li><strong>No gossip, no private lives, no suspicion.<\/strong> Watts don&#8217;t accuse anyone.<\/li><li><strong>No made-up quotes, no fake photos.<\/strong> Words in quotation marks come from official statements; the photos are real, with author and license.<\/li><li><strong>AI computes, reads and writes, and we say so.<\/strong> If a piece doesn&#8217;t pass our checks, it doesn&#8217;t go out.<\/li><li><strong>Mistakes are corrected in public, with the date, and ties with teams are stated in the piece.<\/strong> All corrections are <a href=\"\/en\/corrections\/\">on one page<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>No ads.<\/strong> The reader is not the product.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where the data come from, what artificial intelligence does and doesn&#8217;t do, how the news goes out and how we correct mistakes: it&#8217;s all in <a href=\"\/en\/method\/\">How we work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For teams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tinke develops artificial intelligence tools for WorldTeams and ProTeams, and is open to partnerships. The newsroom and the tools stay separate: when we write about a team we work with, we say so in the piece. <a href=\"\/en\/for-teams\/\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For race organizers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a distance we cover races with what is public; up close you see better. If you invite us, we collect more precise data on the spot, and we arrive quietly, like a pheasant on foot. <a href=\"\/en\/press\/\">How it works<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who\u2019s behind it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tinke, a company that develops artificial intelligence systems. <a href=\"\/en\/legal-notice\/\">Legal notice<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/privacy\/\">Privacy<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffering can&#8217;t be measured. 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