VERBANIA – Now it’s safe: Elisa Longo Borghini and Filippo Ganna will fly to the Tokyo Olympics. The national cycling teams dissolved their doubts yesterday, issuing the official convocations: the cyclist from Ornavasso, Italian bicampioness, will race the road test on Sunday 25 July and will also be the protagonist of the time trial on Wednesday 28. The champion will make his debut in the 28th time trial. of the world of the specialty Ganna, who then the following week – from 2 to 4 August – will be engaged on the track with the blue quartet to look for a medal in the team pursuit (the individual one for which he is world champion is not part of the Olympic program). As already announced by coach Davide Cassani, Ganna will not be part of the five Azzurri who will compete in the road test.
There is also coach Lavarini
The two Vco cyclists join the Omegnese coach Stefano Lavarini who will lead the South Korean women’s volleyball team: the technician, coach of Igor Novara, has also been on the Asian bench since 2019.
If for the canoeist Carlo Tacchini and the walker Stefano Chiesa (both from Verbania) the viewfinder is already centered on Paris 2024 after having touched the qualification for Tokyo, still fighting to get on the plane there is Linda Olivieri from Novara in the 400 obstacles who last weekend won silver at the tricolors: two blue who scored the minimum for the Olympics two years ago did not give continuity to their performances, so it is not excluded that the national team technicians are convinced to give a chance to those who , like the Novara obstacolist, is proving to be in an ideal shape.