World Cycling Championships: waiting for Filippo Ganna, there is already a first medal

Filippo Ganna sees Remco Evenepoel as favorite for the time trial

For one reason or another, Filippo Ganna's 2024 è has been characterized by ups and downs, so much so that the Verbanese champion himself, on the eve of the men’s Elite time trial at the World Road Championships in Zurich, chooses a low profile and prefers not to include his own name in the lot of favorites for the rainbow jersey.

"We all know that the favorite è one (he said, referring to Remco Evenepoel, 2023 title holder and winner of the time trial also at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games -. We will try not to finish too far behind. You have to manage the effort, because of the difficultiesà altimetry and becauseé long".

"I feel good – then added 'Top Ganna' two-time winner of the rainbow time trial, in 2020 and 2021 – but è it is also true that I come from a period of ups and downs. I had a choice to either end the season or get back in the game. I’m trying, but even I don’t know my actual current value.

Meanwhile, the World Championships have already brought a medal to Italy, in para-cycling: in Team Relay, in fact, Federico Mestroni, Luca Mazzone and Davide Cortini won silver in the Team Relay, a discipline in which è silver also arrived in Paris 2024 (with Mirko Testa in Cortini’s place): "It’s another good feeling,” Mazzone said, “we did the Olympics encore with another tenor, which è Davide. It’ shows that we have a great team. A prize for the whole staff. This world championship could not have started better".