diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f56698a15caae82d9d85629240c0e193aa2b9ecf..a597e28e56858fbd53a00ddb1510631bc5c10c7f 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -484,81 +484,6 @@ benchmarks:detector:nightly:
     strategy: depend
   allow_failure: true
   
-
-    #benchmarks:reconstruction:default:
-    #  stage: benchmarks
-    #  needs: 
-    #    - version
-    #    - jug_xl:default
-    #  variables:
-    #    DETECTOR: "${DETECTOR}"
-    #    DETECTOR_CONFIG: "${DETECTOR_CONFIG}"
-    #    DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL: "${DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL}"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_TAG: "${INTERNAL_TAG}-default"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_CONTAINER: "jug_xl"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_REGISTRY: "$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE"
-    #  trigger:
-    #    project: EIC/benchmarks/reconstruction_benchmarks
-    #    strategy: depend
-    #  allow_failure: true
-    #  
-    #benchmarks:physics:default:
-    #  stage: benchmarks
-    #  needs: 
-    #    - version
-    #    - jug_xl:default
-    #  variables:
-    #    RECO: "eicrecon"
-    #    DETECTOR: "${DETECTOR}"
-    #    DETECTOR_CONFIG: "${DETECTOR_CONFIG}"
-    #    DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL: "${DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL}"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_TAG: "${INTERNAL_TAG}-default"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_CONTAINER: "jug_xl"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_REGISTRY: "$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE"
-    #  trigger:
-    #    project: EIC/benchmarks/physics_benchmarks
-    #    strategy: depend
-    #  allow_failure: false
-    #
-    #benchmarks:reconstruction:nightly:
-    #  stage: benchmarks
-    #  rules:
-    #    - !reference ['.nightly', rules]
-    #  needs: 
-    #    - version
-    #    - jug_xl:nightly
-    #  variables:
-    #    DETECTOR: "${DETECTOR}"
-    #    DETECTOR_CONFIG: "${DETECTOR_CONFIG}"
-    #    DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL: "${DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL}"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_TAG: "${INTERNAL_TAG}-nightly"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_CONTAINER: "jug_xl"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_REGISTRY: "$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE"
-    #  trigger:
-    #    project: EIC/benchmarks/reconstruction_benchmarks
-    #    strategy: depend
-    #  allow_failure: true
-    #  
-    #benchmarks:physics:nightly:
-    #  stage: benchmarks
-    #  rules:
-    #    - !reference ['.nightly', rules]
-    #  needs: 
-    #    - version
-    #    - jug_xl:nightly
-    #  variables:
-    #    RECO: "eicrecon"
-    #    DETECTOR: "${DETECTOR}"
-    #    DETECTOR_CONFIG: "${DETECTOR_CONFIG}"
-    #    DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL: "${DETECTOR_REPOSITORYURL}"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_TAG: "${INTERNAL_TAG}-nightly"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_CONTAINER: "jug_xl"
-    #    BENCHMARKS_REGISTRY: "$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE"
-    #  trigger:
-    #    project: EIC/benchmarks/physics_benchmarks
-    #    strategy: depend
-    #  allow_failure: false
-
 clean_internal_tag:
   image: alpine/curl
   stage: finalize