First stage, first #OrangeBlue podium in China, in Tour of Taihu Lake. Good team work to help Marini in the sprint. During the stage in the breakaway of the day also Genki Yamamoto, caught 15 km before the finish line.
Tour of Taihu Lake.
Stage 1, Wuxi › Wuxi.
First stage, first podium of the NIPPO Vini Fantini team, thanks to Nicolas Marini, second on the finish line, behind Jakub Mareczko. The young Italian sprinter is looking for the 3rd victory of the season. Today he reached the 9th personal podium of 2016 and he is already looking forward to next stages to reach 10th podium and 3rd personal victory.
During the stage a good breakaway of 11 riders, among them Genki Yamamoto, able to insert in the escape and caught only 15 km before the finish line. Then a good job of all the team to help the young sprinter Nicolas Marini. After one month without races a very good signal and yet a podium. A good signal looking to next stages.
In the general ranking the best rider among #OrangeBlue is Riccardo Stacchiotti (fourth) thanks to the very good prologue raced yesterday. Nicolas Marini is now 7th in the general ranking.
On the team car the Sports Directors is Shinichi Fukushima: “Today we had two goals. First of all to be in the breakaway of the day. Done. The second was to work as a team to help Nicolas Marini in the sprint. It is very important to work all together as a team for one selected sprinter. Nicolas was out from official competitions in the last month, so today results is quite good.”