Professionals | 29/06/2025 | 18:47
by Carlo Malvestio
When you go so close to winning the tricolor shirt you cannot be completely satisfied. But after a season lived a little on the edge of the great appointments, Alessandro Covi (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) has at least shown that he is there, and how there is.
«Congratulations to Filippo, he has not stolen anything from anyone – said the puma of Taino -. Personally it hurts, because I was fine and I went strong, but he was better in the sprint. These are occasions that happen a few times in a career, I have really gone close to it, too bad. I hope to conquer it sooner or later ».
The impression from outside, and apparently also from inside, is that the strongest there was just him there, and this has probably not helped him in the management of the ending. «Behind we had Baroncini but we did not talk to each other because there are no radios, in these cases we only look forward to. If I was too generous? The right, they are the others who pulled less, I was probably better than everyone, Aleotti gave me a few changes because he said I was the strongest, but we had a common goal. I expected me attacked, and instead they stayed there, I made the sprint from the head and in the end she fell on me ».
This year Covi won a stop at the Giro d’Abruzzo and one at Vuelta in Asturias, he closed the Hungary Giro 2nd and 4th the round of the Apennines the other day. He is incetting UCI points, but the team, for the moment, prefers to exploit it in second floor races.
«This year they have been at my best levels since I am a professional – said the UAE bearer -. I can’t show it to the general public because I am making minor competitions and the most prestigious stages I miss, because in the end they are the most important ones. But let’s give time to time, the important thing is to have returned to having good sensations after two years conditioned above all by mononucleosis, and indeed I think I am stronger than before. The season is still long, I will have the tour of Austria to support Isaac del Toro who returns to the races and then some race in Spain. Unfortunately, no Worldtour race at the moment, I know that it will start again next year. At the beginning of the year we studied this calendar aimed at making points, I accepted it, it is working, but I certainly miss the big races».
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