Alberto Bettiol won the “Forever Alfredo“ race dedicated to Alfredo Martini, this year valid as online test of the men’s elite category of the 2024 Italian cycling championships: the blue, who will wear the tricolor jersey already at the next Tour de France, spoke at the end of the race to the microphones of By bike.
The first emotions hot: “It’s a beautiful day, it was very hard, because we found bad weather, then I have a lot of friends in the group, but no real teammates, so it was doubly hard. Luckily the route was very selective, I didn’t expect to go so fast. I’ve been coming for a week very complicated, I crashed in Switzerland last week and it was really hard to get back into the rhythm“.
Not optimal condition today for Bettiol: “I had worn out my whole body a bit, but, well, perhaps the only way to keep me motivated was this race, also looking ahead to next week, in short, this morning we started from Piazzale Michelangelo and I’m really expecting a show next time week“.
Cycling, Alberto Bettiol wins the Italian Championships and will wear the tricolor jersey at the Tour de France!
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The joy in wear the Italian champion shirt: “I hope to be worthy of wearing this shirt as an Italian, in short I will wear it around the world a bit, I really hope to definitely wear it with honour, then here in Sesto Fiorentino, a few steps from Alfredo’s house, this morning I saw the family , and for me Alfredo is a special person, and I’m pleased that we always remember him, even with these races, all of FederCiclismo, the cycling movement“.
THE upcoming events on the calendar: “You get older, you mature and you learn from mistakes, more than mistakes, simply, cycling has now become very difficult, very competitive. This year, I have always said, is a special year: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the Italian Championships in Florence, the Tour that starts from Florence“.
Today’s race, however, was marked with a red circle: “I’ve been thinking about this race for a couple of years and I’m happy that, despite the thousand problems, I somehow managed to win it, and I have to thank my breakaway companions, not teammates, Lorenzo Rota and Zambanini, who were fantastic, they deserved it as much as me, now I’m enjoying this shirt a bit“.
