There will be three Lombard stages of the Giro Handbike, a point of reference competition for Paralympic cycling that started last May from Genoa. The first Lombard stage will be held on Sunday 14 July in Dairago (MI) and it will be there hundredth stage in fourteen editions of Giro Handbike. The Giro will resume after the summer again in Lombardy, in Pioltello (Milan) on 22 September and then in Noicattaro, in the province of Bari, on 6 October. The race will end on October 20th on the shores of Lake Como with the sixth and final stage. “The Giro Handbike is this one-of-a-kind competition, a point of reference for Paralympic cycling. It is an event that demonstrates, once again, how disability is no longer an obstacle. In any sport, as in the life of all groups”. The President of the Regional Council underlined this Federico Romani this morning at Palazzo Pirelli at the presentation of the first Lombard stage of the Giro Handbike.
“This year we cross an important milestone: the hundredth stage of the Giro Handbike – points out Fabio PennellaPresident of SEO, the association that organizes the Giro -. 14 years of uninterrupted activity during which we had the opportunity to experiment, to propose new projects and international stages and to push ourselves beyond our limits, just like our athletes. All this has led us to be a trailblazer for other organizers and, in part, to have contributed to the success and growth of the paracycling movement in Italy. We are proud and determined more than ever to further grow this fantastic adventure”.
Mauro Scarparia 49-year-old athlete from Brescia who has participated in ten editions of the Giro Handbike, intervened as a testimonial for the project “Champions of Life” created with the aim of promoting awareness of Paralympic sport. “For me the Giro Handbike – he said Mauro Scarpari – it’s the emotion of rebirth after the accident I suffered in a motocross race. Doing sports, especially hand biking, for a disabled person means starting again, starting to live again. And with the handbike I found my dimension because it is a hard sport, it is synonymous with effort”.
