CIRCUIT DES ARDENNES: GREGA BOLE DEBUTS WITH VINI FANTINI - NIPPO - DE ROSA JERSEY

Tomorrow will start the 40th edition of French stage race. Among the ranks of the “Blue Mountain” Team great expectation for Grega Bole’s debut.

After not exciting last week performance on Route Adélie de Vitrè Vini Fantini – NIPPO – De Rosa is called to redeem itself at the Circuit des Ardennes, a stage race scheduled from 11th to 13th April in the North-East of France.

Four stages with a lot of bumps that will test the group up to the suggestive arrival in Cours Briand in Charleville – Mezieres, in the heart of the Ardennes. The race will start start tomorrow with start and finish after 175km in Vouziers, before the very hard stage of Saturday with 168km from Fromelennes to Hargnies. Sunday there will be the epilogue with the first short but very hard semi-stage of Monthermè (more than 1,350 meters in altitude in just over 70km) that anticipate the sprint of the afternoon in the heart of Charleville – Mezieres.

Spotlight on Grega Bole: right here in the Ardennes he will wear for the first time Vini Fantini – NIPPO – De Rosa Team jersey. To support the slovenian athlete there will be Pierpaolo De Negri, Alessandro Malaguti, Eduard Grosu, Manabu Ishibashi, Daniel Paulus, Shiki Kuroeda and Yuya Akimaru with DS Alessandro Spezialetti on Team-car.

"The race is very challenging with a lot of short but very hard climbs – said Alessandro Spezialetti – The guys have great desire to prove that last Friday race in Vitrè was just a bad day… We’re very happy to see finally Grega in the bunch”.