TOUR OF ITALY | 05/24/2024 | 6.05pm
by Federico Guido
He had marked this stage, he said he would try and he did, even if in his heart Alessandro De Marchi he knew that achieving victory would be very difficult.
«In this cycling, already being in the breakaway, understanding how the games go, it’s a lot. The level is super. This is one of the laps in which I am performing bestthe results perhaps say the opposite though at 38 years old that’s fine, I’m very happy. Being able to enjoy the race and not just suffer means a lot.”
Then the speech goes into detail: «When I arrived I didn’t know Vendrame had won, but he does well on these routes so it surprises me to a certain point that he won the stage. I don’t know what he did, but he certainly deserved it. On the run, Steinhauser was certainly the most hunted. Today I leave happy, in the end I put what I had in my legs on the street and I couldn’t do more than that. I can’t complain about anything. It was very nice because I felt people were really close to me and it’s not something that happens every day. Friuli loves us and this is a day that I will certainly remember”.
No promises but… «How long will I go on? Definitely a few more years.”
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