SAN VENDEMIANO
Will it be the air of home? After a start of the Giro conceived as a preparation in Tokyo, Soraya Paladin is again among the best in the order of arrival of the seventh stage of the pink race: fifth in Puegnago del Garda. And today, at the start of the eighth fraction from San Vendemiano, the 28-year-old from Cimadolmo, among the four blue ones called up by the city Salvoldi for the five-circle race, will be able to count on the cheering of relatives and friends, the best gift coming at the Games. Today’s segment, 129 km with an epilogue in Mortegliano (Udine), includes 20 km in the Treviso area: the start from the city of Alex Del Piero will be given unofficially at 12.05 from via Maniach, then the official departure at 12.15 from via De Gasperi . We will also visit the towns of San Fior (several times the arrival point of the Giro Rosa), Godega, Codognè, Gaiarine. But the cheering will also extend to the other blue in our house: Sofia Bertizzolo, Nadia Quagliotto, Laura Tomasi, Giorgia Vettorello. As well as the two teams domiciled in the province: Top Girls Fassa Bortolo and Monex. In the general classification, the best of the Treviso women is always Paladin, who on the eve of the Giro had declared that he wanted to concentrate on the stages: now he is 20th at 11’46 ”, the Dutch Anna van der Breggen always leads. Today’s fraction will lend itself to escapes, the curtain on the pink race will fall on Sunday in Cormons. –
M.T.