2024 Track Cycling World Championships, coach Villa: "Satisfactory results"

Rome, 21 October 2024 - Not only the road season, which officially ended yesterday: Sunday, October 20 the curtain has also fallen on 2024 Track Cycling World Championships, started Wednesday 16 October and performed in the setting of the Ballerup Super Arena di ballerupin Denmark. As expected, the medal table saw the triumph of theNetherlands su Britain and precisely Denmark: for theItaly a seventh place was achieved, the result of 4 medals overall (1 gold, 2 silvers e 1 bronze).  

Villa's statements

  The brightest highlight, needless to say, was the success of jonathan milan in the individual pursuit: with a world record (3'59 "153) torn from Josh Charlton (3'59 "304), the beaten one who curiously had robbed him that same morning Filippo Gana (3'59 "636), the great absentee of ballerup and perhaps also of the future of the blue track. The coach spoke about the forfeit of the spearhead of the movement in recent years and of a budget that was not too disappointing overall Marco Villa to the microphones of Radio I also Sport. "After the Olympics a new four-year period is starting and, at least in the first two years, when the qualifications are not yet in play, it is right that those who want to dedicate themselves more to the road: that is what they will rightly do Ganna, who sometimes comes to the track to train". In short, for the holder of the hour record the door to the oval is not closed, but the impression that at home Italy a generational change is urgently needed, it is strong despite the expert's excellent silver Elia Viviani in the elimination. "He tried until the last lap, hesitating a bit in the last lap. Perhaps, in light of the race he ran, he could have aspired to something more, but I am still satisfied first of all with his professionalism: 35 years I saw him prepare the Olympics and then i World Cup with the enthusiasm of a young man, and it was not a given". Despite a meager medal table and some evident disappointments, Villa he doesn't make a fuss about the loot ballerup, even more so considering the current state of Italian cycling. "It's a shame for the quartet to fall, which could have won a medal, but we did a good job World: I'm also happy with the fourth places. This is because I like to look at the glass half full. Now cycling - continues the coach - is more complicated because it has opened up to more nations, while before there was a hegemony of a restricted elite. Moving on to the road, it is true that we don't win the World Cup for a long time, but with champions like Tadej pogacar e Remco Evenepoel everything is more complicated up front: this is also why I give a lot of value to the third place Julius Ciccone al Tour of Lombardy. It is not an easy time for theItaly, but in our own way we're still here."

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