ROMA (ITALPRESS) – After the gold of the Juniors mixed bracket, the European road cycling, in Ljubljana, has arrived today, for blue colors, also the silver in the Elite mixed bracket. To conquer it were Mattia Cattaneo, Marco Frigo and Matteo Sobrero to the mschile and Elisa Longo Borghini, Monica Trinca Colonel and Alessia Vigilia to the female.
Compared to the blue team who graduated world champion on September 22, in Montreal, two changes: outside Filippo Ganna and Vittoria Guazzini, inside Frigo and Vigilia. The blues closed today’s test in second position behind France’s 1’12”, which made its gold medal. Third square and bronze for Luxembourg, at 3’34” by transalpines. For Italy it is the fifth medal in this continental festival, after the silver of Giulio Ciccone, the bronze of Christian Scaroni and the rims of Azzurra Ballan and the Juniors mixed bracket.
“We knew it would be a very different test than that of the World Championships, also because the route was completely different. We tried to do our best, but France was stronger and I congratulate them. We also knew that Monica Trinca Colonel had not been well since yesterday and this definitely did not help us. That said, I believe that on such a path France was also favored for the team he had deployed,” said Mattia Cattaneo at the end of today’s trial. For the blues, including Cattaneo, Europeans are not yet finished. “Today there is a chronometer test. I would love to do well, I will try to recover from today and get a good result. We will see,” added the blue. Tomorrow, in fact, there will be the last day of races in Ljubljana: space at the individual time of all categories, with the blue again protagonists on the Slovenian roads.
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