The honor roll among the pedal elite is relatively new.. However, from 2016 to today I European Road Cycling Championships which open today in Drenthe, the Netherlands, saw Italian athletes distinguished themselves four timesand the successes of Matteo Trentin (2018), Elia Viviani (2019), Giacomo Nizzolo (2020) and Sonny Colbrelli (2021) speak of a decidedly favorable background for the athletes competing on Dutch roads until Sunday.
Up to 850 participants of various categories were admitted.with entries from 40 different countries and 14 titles up for grabs, including time trials, mixed time relays and road races for junior, under-23 and elite men and women.
Dedicated to Filippo Ganna, Edoardo Affini, Matteo Trentin, Elia Viviani, Luca Mozzato, Andrea Pasqualon, Matteo Sobrero and Mattia Cattaneo. task to try in the main test; Among the women, the senior team included Elisa Balsamo, Silvia Zanardi, Ilaria Sanguineti, Elena Cecchini, Barbara Guarischi, Soraya Paladin, Sofia Bertizzolo and Silvia Persico.
The one I just mentioned Ganna and Alberto Dainese These are the two Italians who, at the last Vuelta a España, which ended on Sunday in Madrid, won one stage each of the 21 experienced competitors who started in Barcelona at the end of August. Lorenzo Milesi, at the end of the first team time trial, even donned the first red jersey, which he then the next day threw over the shoulders of another Italian athlete, Andrea Piccolo, to arrive at a final classification in which the tricolor flag was indeed seen very little.
Only one Italian in the top 10 points rankings (Ganna, ranked sixth), one in the mountain Grand Prix ranking, Damiano Caruso in seventh place, one, Antonio Tiberi, among youth and also in seventh place. Overall, to get to the first green-white-red flag you need to go down to Tiberi, 18th, and just beyond that is Caruso, 19th.
The winner was Sepp Kuss.; Behind him are not just runners, but his teammates Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic, two names that alone make your wrists shake with strength and determination. Three Jumbo-Visma athletes will monopolize three steps of the Spanish stage race podium, three riders from one team will win all three of the world’s most important cycling tours, Kuss in Spain was preceded by Vingegaard in France, and even earlier in Italy from Roglič.
In the final stage of 2023 with several flashes of blue Lombardy was presented yesterday morning in Milan. It was opened by two greats of the recent past, Damiano Cunego and Vincenzo Nibali, who won the Dry Leaf Classic three times (2004, 2007 and 2008) and twice (2015 and 2017). Departing from Como and arriving in Bergamo, the start and finish were reversed from last year and two winners were crowned., Tadej Pogačar for Cunego and Remco Evenepoel for Strait Shark to highlight the last of the Monument Classics before the end of the road cycling season. However, at the end of the planned 238 kilometers, anything is possible: the total elevation difference is 4,400, and the arrival in the city is not without some pitfalls due to a less peaceful ending than one might think.
However, before thinking about Lombardy, it is worth noting the European Championship, in which first place in the overall medal standings for defense (108 medals, of which 41 gold, 32 silver and 35 bronze) and the latest victories collected in 2021 will be accompanied by new successes that can be posted on the notice board. No pre-match predictions or expectations. The Azzurri are faced with the task of bringing as many medals as possible to Italy.
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