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The sheer talent of Tadej Pogacar, crowned at the Elysian Fields, the second youngest Tour de France winner in history, led by two old foxes who have lived in cycling between day wins and a few scandals. Therefore, thereFrench Presstitled the launch of an agency in Mauro Gianetti (Swiss, 56 years old) and Joxean Matxin Fernandez (49 years old, Spanish) The director and manager of the UAE team stressed that the top executives of the team (and some of the staff) of the new cycling phenomenon have their roots in the distant and not always honorable past.
UAE Emirates was born in 2017 from the ashes of the Italian Lampre who, having lost the sponsor, looked for a financial bank in China and ended up finding it in a large real estate fund in the emirates. To Beppe Saronni (who assumed increasingly remote roles) assumed the intermediary Gianetti. Professional until 2002, Ticino born in 1998 would have risked his life, as a report by New York Times– ending in resuscitation for taking fluorocarbons for doping purposes. At the end of his career, he became an inventory manager (with Fernández) teams like Saunier Duval and Servetto, which between 2007 and 2011 were devastated by doping cases. Among the best known are those of the Italians Piepoli and Ricc (stopped during the 2008 Tour) and the Spanish Kobo, Zaballa, Mayo and Serrano. The scale of the scandals caused the sponsor to run away during the current season.
Gianetti (who the Tour director Prudhomme at the time defined certainly not a model of ethics) spoke of unfortunate autonomous choices, denying the team’s responsibility. Iñigo San Millán also comes from Saunier Duaval, in charge of the coaches, while the first sporting director of the team the former Slovenian cyclist (as Pogacar) Andrej Hauptman who since the Tour, in 2000, was hunted for high blood values.
First postponed and then always in the balance for Covid, the 107 Tour de France ended with the second winning sprint of Sam bennet who deserved the green jersey of the points classification, torn (after seven years of dominance) by a limp Peter Sagan, third Sunday after Pedersen. Quinta Viviani, another big disappointment of the Grande Boucle. In the top ten of the general classification the two Slovenians, the Australian Richie Porte for the first time on the podium after 14 great laps based on mystical crises and ruinous falls, two Spaniards (Mas and Landa), two Colombians (López and Uran) , a Dutchman (Dumoulin), the Englishman Yates and our Caruso, excellent tenth. Apart from the Sicilians, the Italians, unfortunately, almost nonexistent. At home early due to the injuries of Formolo, Pozzovivo and Nizzolo, Fabio Aru evaporated (he disconnected the phone on the day of the withdrawal and the real mystery of the Emirates house), the others had to perform gregarious work or disputed flights in the third row. We will certainly not be favorites at the Imola World Championships.
September 21, 2020 (change September 21, 2020 | 07:19)
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