Biking, the Azzurri for Paris: Mozzato the novelty, will run the highway race with Bettiol and Viviani

There can be 24 Italian cyclists, 13 ladies and 11 males, who can be competing within the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympic trials will embrace highway biking, monitor biking, mountain biking and BMX. The Italian two-wheel crew was welcomed at present within the Sala Giunta of the Coni in Rome by the president of Italian sport, Giovanni Malagò.

For the highway races, Elisa Longo Borghini, Alberto Bettiol and Filippo Ganna have been chosen for the time trials, whereas Alberto Bettiol, Luca Mozzato, Elia Viviani, Elisa Balsamo, Elena Cecchini, Elisa Longo Borghini and Silvia Persico have been chosen for the 2 highway races. For the monitor competitions, Viviani, Ganna, Francesco Lamon, Jonathan Milan, Manlio Moro and Simone Consonni have been chosen for the lads’s race, and Chiara Consonni, Elisa Balsamo, Letizia Paternoster, Martina Alzini, Martina Fidanza, Miriam Vece, Sara Fiorin and Vittoria Guazzini for the ladies’s race.

Luca Braidot, Simone Avondetto, Chiara Teocchi and Martina Berta would be the protagonists within the two mountain bike competitions, whereas Pietro Bertagnoli has been chosen for the lads’s BMX match.

“The outcomes achieved by Italian biking lately are there for all to see: these are goal components,” Malagò recalled.

As soon as once more I wish to emphasize the multidisciplinarity of our nation. The one in Bmx and the 4 in mountain biking are Olympic playing cards that we have been notably happy with”. On the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Italian biking was dyed gold within the males’s crew pursuit because of the quartet composed of Francesco Lamon, Simone Consonni, Jonathan Milan and Filippo Ganna, and received two bronzes, Viviani (omnium) and Longo Borghini (highway race).

There are 12 Italian athletes at present sure to take part within the Paralympics that can be held between the top of August and the start of September: 7 males and 5 ladies. The federation has additionally requested 3 wild playing cards which, if granted, would carry the contingent and disposition of Pierpaolo Addesi (highway) and Silvano Perusini (monitor) to fifteen.

The highway group consists of, along with the flag bearer Luca Mazzone, the world champion Mirko Testa, the silver medalist in Tokyo Fabrizio Cornegliani, Martino Pini and the {couples} Andreoli/Totò and Bernard/Plebani. Among the many ladies current are the a number of Paralympic medalist Francesca Porcellato, Ana Vitelaru, Giulia Ruffato, Claudia Cretti and Eleonora Mele.

As for the monitor, Italy can be current with the tandem Bernard/Plebani and Claudia Cretti. The three wild playing cards have been requested for Andrea Tarlao (attainable dedication each on the highway and on the monitor), Giorgio Farroni and Katia Aere.