The World Team Pursuit Championships returns to blue after 24 years. The Olympic champion quartet with golden bike and helmet to celebrate the gold in Tokyo, formed by Filippo Ganna, Jonathan Milan, Simone Consonni and Liam Bertazzo (who replaced Francesco Lamon in the final), overcomes France at home in the final on the track of Roubaix. And also...
READ MOREItaly won the gold medal in the women's scratch with Martina Fidanza at the cycling world championships held in Roubaix (France). With seven laps to go, Azzurra upped the pace, shifted into high gear and grinded her games on the pedals. There was no fatigue that could stop her, nor adversary that could keep her head: adrenaline, technique, determin...
READ MOREItaly is rediscovering the passion for cycling twenty years after the last boom, when the "pirate" Marco Pantani was able to drag oceanic crowds along the routes of the great European tours. In a little less than two months, from the Olympic Games in Tokyo to the most grueling one-day race in the world, the Paris-Roubaix on October 3, the Italian c...
READ MOREAnother triumph for the Italian cycling, another victory in the 2021 of the Italian sport. Merit, this time, of the 21 year-old Jonathan Milan, born in Tolmezzo and resident in Buja - the country of Alessandro De Marchi, Wednesday winner of the Agostoni Cup - that, after having conquered the Olympic gold with the quartet of the team pursuit, at the...
READ MORERiding a bike and wandering through tree-lined avenues, elegant palaces and scenic squares are some of the most immersive activities you can do in the beautiful country. Especially if you are two-wheel lovers, know that here you will find bike paths where pedalling will be a pleasure for your eyes too. A self-respecting trip to Italy should develop...
READ MORESonny Colbrelli became the first Italian to win the Paris-Roubaix Monument classic in 22 years when he prevailed on his debut in a three-man sprint finish at the end of a gruelling race on Sunday. His whole body caked in mud after 257.7 kilometres featuring 30 cobbled sectors, Colbrelli burst into tears as he collapsed on the grass of the Roubaix V...
READ MOREGaiole in Chianti and the white roads of the province of Siena are now ready to welcome the cyclists arriving for the 24th edition of L'Eroica, the poem written with the bicycle that Giancarlo Brocci created in 1997 to experience the emotions of the "beauty of fatigue and the taste of enterprise", which over time have become values appreciated all...
READ MORERipping up the script written by the Dutch women in the past four world championships, the Italian Elisa Balsamo snatched the road race title from under the noses of a dominant Netherlands squad. One of the sport’s greatest of all time, Marianne Vos, finished in tears, less than a bike length behind after a gruelling 157km around Flanders. Balsamo,...
READ MOREFilippo Baroncini (Italy) was crowned under-23 world champion in Flanders following a solo attack. The Italian made his move on the penultimate climb of the day, the Wjinpers, and managed to solo the final 5.5km to win the gold medal Biniam Girmay won the sprint from a reduced bunch to take silver, an unprecedented result for his native Eritrea, w...
READ MOREDefending champion Filippo Ganna of Italy shattered home fans’ hopes of a 1-2 for their riders and retained the men’s time trial title on Sunday to secure back-to-back gold medals at the road world championships. On the opening day of the week-long event in Belgium, Ganna won with a small margin of just over five seconds to beat Wout van Aert for t...
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