The emotion of the Bujese cyclist for the young athlete who died in a road accident while training. And the security runners threaten to sue the state
Still on the attack, even in the last stage of the Tour of the Alps, the short stage race in preparation for the Giro d’Italia. With the death of her heart and a great desire to leave a mark and maybe win to dedicate the success to Silvia Piccini, the 17-year-old from Sedegliano who died on Thursday at the Udine hospital after being hit two days earlier in San Daniele while she was training on her bike .
The Friulians Alessandro De Marchi and Matteo Fabbro, respectively of the Israel-Start Nation and Bora Hansgrohe, set fire and flames in the stage that ended in Riva del Garda.
In the end, the stage went to a teammate of Fabbro, the Austrian Grosschartner, who left on the last climb. Behind him De Marchi, third, preceded by Nicolas Rosche (DSM). For the 34-year-old leader’s jersey of the conquered mountain and party with an expectant wife and eldest son. Then, while the winner of the short stage race climbed onto the podium, the English Simon Yates (Exchange), obviously among the favorites of the pink race, the thrust of the “Rosso di Buja”. «Silvia’s death shocked me. His family is part of the big Bujese family, and then Thursday was April 22nd and we know what that means ».
Four years ago, hit by a car, Michele Scarponi died. «And since that day nothing has changed – he thundered – no one listens to us, no one poses the problem of safety. I keep seeing people driving with cell phones in hand, who don’t respect the rules. I’m disheartened, then maybe in a few days, even in Silvia’s name, anger will return to keep fighting, with my colleagues, so that these tragedies end. First of all by continuing to set a good example on the road ».
These are the words of De Marchi, Fabbro, who tomorrow will race the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, for example, in the hours spent anxious about the fate of Silvia he had said the same, as did the other Friulian Jonathan Milan of Bahrain, twenty ‘ years but sensitivity out of the ordinary. And yesterday the Italian Association of Professional Runners announced the appeal to the European Court to force the state, which has been elusive for years on the subject, to do something.