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Cepeda in evidenza al Tour of the Alps

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Director Ellena looks at the Giro d’Italia with new certainties “Our team has always focused on young people”

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Giovanni Ellena, Canavese sporting director of Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec can look forward to the Giro d’Italia which will start next Saturday from Turin with new certainties. The Tour of the Alps (formerly the Giro del Trentino), which has always been considered the general rehearsal of the Corsa Rosa, highlighted several of its riders, in particular the Ecuadorian Jefferson Alexander Cepeda, who finished fourth in the general classification and won the White Jersey for best youngster.

«An absolutely valuable placement – Ellena comments -, behind three World Tour athletes who will aim for victory or at least the podium of the Giro: Simon Yates, Pello Bilbao and Aleksandr Vlasov. In the same race the very young Santiago Umba (who will not be in the Giro, ed) also attempted some solitary action, while the Eritrean Natnael Tesfatsion, in addition to a good ninth place in the first stage, was aiming a lot on the last stage, but it is been held back by a fall ».

And the good news does not come only from the Trentino race. «Even in Belgrade-Banjaluka – adds Ellena – a short stage race in Bosnia Erzagovina which ended on Saturday, we won the White Jersey with Andrii Ponomar, born in 2002. Our team has always focused on young people and our boys are starting to collect results “.

At the Giro this brood of potential champions will be led by two veterans, the Argentine Eduardo Sepúlveda and the Swiss Simon Pellaud. “Simon should have run the Tour of Turkey – he continues – but was stopped by a false positivity at Covid. No health problems, but this busted test made him lose important racing days in the Giro key. Now we are focusing on the Tour of Romandie to assess its conditions well ».

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The state of form of the athletes wearing the red and white jersey raised the bar for the goals for the Giro d’Italia: “We were invited at the last moment and this upset the team’s plans, but the last races have given us serenity and certainties. If until a few days ago we thought that our goal would have been, as usual, the escapes, now we believe we can aim for a partial success and try to do well in some rankings. Cepeda has proven his worth and I am convinced that Tesfatsion has yet to prove what he is capable of. We are ready to get involved, proving that we fully deserved to be at the start of the Giro ».

Last year the Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec was a construction site: “A cycle had just ended that had seen us launching World Tour athletes such as Andrea Vendrame, Fausto Masnada and Mattia Cattaneo, as well as Davide Ballerini, Ivan Sosa and above all Egan Bernal , with us in previous seasons. Sowing we have sown, now is the time to see something grow, waiting for the new harvest. The very fact that we leave a talent like Umba at home to mature means that we are already thinking about the future ». And while Giovanni Ellena talks about the future of his team, perhaps it is worth listing some of the athletes discovered or relaunched by Androni in the last ten years, in addition to the six already mentioned: Alessandro De Marchi, Fabio Felline, Franco Pellizzotti and Diego Rosa, just for name a few. –

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