Cycling, Ganna's 2025: Spring Goals

Rome, 7 January 2025 – The 2024 it didn't go as expected, but Filippo Gana he doesn't let himself be brought down by the recent past and works towards a 2025 definitely better. The first step is the withdrawal in Gran Canaria to refine the preparation in view of the season debut, now not so far away.

Ganna's 2025 program

The Piedmontese will refine on the island, where he will remain until 18st January, his time trial skills thanks to Dario David Cioni, specifically dedicated to racing against time at home Ineos Grenadiers. Then Top Ganna will return home for a few days before going back to Spain, to be precise a Denia, for a training camp with the rest of the team. Then it will be time for the competitions, with the debut expected atEtoile de Besseges, Scheduled 5 al 9 February in FranceThe focus of the first part of spring is all on the Milan-Sanremo, in turn the first race in the sights of a certain Tadej pogacar, who in the past few weeks had been seen in those parts for a finishing touch together with friends (and rivals) Michael Matthews e Matteo Trentin: the appointment is for the 22 Marchwhile for the Paris-Roubaix, another goal of Ganna (this time without the obstacle of the Slovenian champion), we have to wait for the 13th April. Then the hour record holder will likely be at Giro d'Italia, but for now the focus is all on the Classics of spring, those that can notoriously direct, in one direction or another, an entire season. Especially for a runner like Ganna that by express declaration, having reached the threshold of 29 years, wants to prove to himself and to the entire cycling world that he can do much more than 'just' win the time trial.

Pithie's statements

from Groupama-FDJ to the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe: a nice leap forward that Laurence Pithie, intercepted by the microphones of CyclingNews, shows that he is not afraid. On the contrary. "My previous team has always been enthusiastic about my results, while I was left with the disappointment of not being able to win. I have shown that I have the right power when the races become tough and combative, but I must be able to improve in prolonged efforts in the final stages of the races. However, I will always thank the staff of Groupama-FDJ, about whom I will never say anything negative, because they were the only ones who trusted me when I arrived in Europe. I have to admit that sometimes I had a hard time communicating my ideas, which is not easy when the other side only speaks French. Furthermore - continues the New Zealander - their sports directors were all a bit old and fixated on their positions and when you proposed something new you were almost always ignored. Here at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe instead there are many managers who have just retired from cycling, and so here I feel like I can really be myself".