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Julian ALAPHILIPPE. 10 with lode. It was the alternative to Wout Van Aert, the other, the one who could oppose the Belgian champion, the man of the moment. It was the other side of the coin, but he managed to stamp his first and last name on both sides. They call him “Loulou”, the musketeer, D’Artagnan: for us he is the man who dances on a bicycle. The one that accelerates and relaunches does not even ride a Harley-Davidson. Clumsy, he brakes and runs, sways and arches with that syncopated pedaling, as if to the beat of the music, a little bolero, but a lot of Rolling Stones. He’s a rock racer that’s good for cycling and good for cyclists – so much so that he’s the best of all. Since tonight he’s the best in the world.
Wout VAN AERT. 5.5. He was the man most expected and predicted: the man to beat. Confirm that you are a freak, but make at least one mistake. Nibali snaps, Landa and Uran go after him like hawks, then he arrives, who stops, cynics and does not repeat the action of the Shark. There would be space. The meters are there. You don’t believe it or maybe you don’t. If you do not believe it, serious mistake, if you do not have it, it is fair that you have lost. When it clicks, Julian doesn’t fold. He sees him go and understands that he will come.
Marc HIRSCHI. Eighth. He does his thing, like before. He was also among the most anticipated men of the moment and he does not make you wait or pray. The Swiss must be sent without fear. Finish on the podium: for now a third that is worth gold.
Michail KWIATKOWSKI. 7. He was very fast on the Tour, he is very strong at Imola. It is there, you can see, although perhaps something is missing: and you can see this too.
Jakob FUGLSANG. 6.5. The Dane makes his teammates move very well, then he enters the scene, he enters the right action, but he is also missing something, as it should be. He didn’t do the Tour, the Giro awaits him: a completely different story.
Primoz ROGLIC. 5. Taddeo Pogacar tries for himself and for him, but then he doesn’t try. He submits to the race, limiting the damage and making the minimum wage for a runner in his mold. He arrives at Imola empty: head and legs.
Michael MATTHEWS. 7. He is the only fast man who syrups an alpine stage of almost 5,000 meters in the highlands: it is not to say it.
Alejandro VALVERDE. 6. At one point I thought he could also deliver the blow, but then he stayed in the barrel: the shot.
Maximilian SCHACHMANN. 5. For the German it was a very good opportunity and he lost it. Evil.
Damiano CARUSO. 7.5. He does it on his own, attacks in the hot stages of the race and takes home another position. Tenth as in the Tour: it is no coincidence.
Michael WOODS. 5. The distance is missing, and in the distance it is shown.
Guillaume MARTIN. 8. He and France do a great job for their Musketeer: all for one, one for them.
Tom DUMOULIN. 5. To tell Sandro Piccinini: it doesn’t work!
Vincenzo NIBALI. 6. It is not in very good condition, although it is not as slow as some might think. Take the right action at the right time and take away three precious adventure companions. One above all: Van Aert, who sleeps. Vincenzo, for a while, made us dream.
CASSANI’s Italy. 6. It goes how it was supposed to go and how it was supposed to go. Cohesive and compact team, which did not waste energy and showed itself when the brawl broke out. Good Bettiol, very good Masnada and Bagioli. In general all with their more than deserved sufficiency. A world championship without showing actions, showing once again that being concrete counts more than being showy.
Greg VAN AVERMAET. 8. Olympic champion who runs as champion of Van Aert, in which he does not become world champion.
Tadej POGACAR. 7. Shoot on the Gallisterna hill 42 km from the goal. He wreaks havoc on the group, but in the end he too is forced to throw in the towel. What a broker.
Dmitrij GRUZDEV. 6. The 34-year-old Kazakh rider from Astana is the first to race: he takes and he goes, but the breakaway doesn’t go away
Daniil FOMINYKH. 7. The other Kazakh from Astana tries and the escape is gone this time. Through him with Jonas Koch (Germany), Torstein Traeen (Norway), Marco Friedrich (Austria), Yukiya Arashiro (Japan), Eduard Grosu (Romania) and Ulises Castillo (Mexico). 69 km from the conclusion it is resumed.
Aleksej LUTSENKO. 19, like Covid. He was one of the most anticipated and trusted men in the Kazakh national team who must, immediately, give up the challenge of the world championship for positivity in Covid. He’s not alone, there are also 28-year-old German from Sunweb Nikias Arndt and 29-year-old Eritrean Natnael Behrane.
Filippo GANNA. 53. To get the first gold in the time trial in the history of the Azzurri, he ran at more than 53 km / h. A performance that enchants, for strength and posture: perfect style, from a cycling textbook that perhaps should also be rewritten, featuring the photo of this big man by Verbano Cusio Ossola that makes the positions of Anquetil and Merckx prehistoric and skewed, Moser and Indurain … Filippo is there to see. Haunted.
Elisa Longo BORGHINI. 6. It is the sixth medal between the Olympic, world and European Games: a bronze in Rio (2016), two world bronzes (Limburg 2012 and Imola 2020), as well as a continental silver (Plouay 2020) and two bronzes (Goes 2012 and Plumelec 2016 ). She is a spectacular and reliable daughter of art (Guidina Dal Sasso), but for me now she is a sister from Italy.
Marco SELLERI and PAVARINI. 9. What do you want to say to New Placci Cycling 2013 if you are not good! It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t easy, but they did it, after doing so many other things in this crazy year disrupted by the pandemic. They were the engine of a reboot that has never stopped.
Stefano BONACCINI. 10. He is a full-blooded politician, therefore an excellent roaster, but this time, assisted by an exceptional city, he disguises himself as a sprinter and burns everyone in time and takes home the World Cup. If he is not a sprinter, he is at least an excellent “finisseur”. If you are not a cyclist, you are surely a lover of sports and in particular ours. So thank you.
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