8 #OrangeBlue riders are ready to ride from 8th to 14th of March. Julian Arredondo the leader for climbs arrivals, Eduard Grosu the man of the sprints, Marco Canola yet winner of a jersey in 2014 edition, is strongly motivated to do good things, Hideto Nakane after the good Tour de Langkawi is ready to ride in a World Tour race.
Lido di Camaiore.
Official start in Lido di Camaiore on the Tirreno Sea, final finish line in San Benedetto del Tronto on the Adriatic Sea. In the middle 7 stages, many dreams and objectives to reach, by the 8 #OrangeBlue riders selected by the Sports Director Mario Manzoni, together with Valerio Tebaldi.
The leader for the climb arrivals will be the Colombian rider Julian Arredondo, fully recovered and now growing his condition. The Blue Jersey of the Giro d’Italia 2014, will try to be among riders in battle for a stage victory. On flat stages the leader for sprints will be Eduard Grosu, coming from very good placements in Tour of Oman (a podium, 2nd behind Kristoff) and Abu Dhabi Tour (2 top ten placement), he just stopped for the flue but he is motivated to recover before Wednesday the 8th for the big start of the race. Among most performing riders in this first part of the season, Marco Canola, that with the Tirreno-Adriatico have a particular feeling, with the victory of best climber jersey in 2014 edition and ready to reach other good results in 2017 edition. On the starting line also 2 Japanese riders, with different roles. Hideto Nakane is coming from the jersey of Best Asian rider in Le Tour de Langkawi in Malesia. In race also Kohei Uchima is a complete rider, team-worker and able to go in some escape. The line-up will be completed by 3 Italian riders with a mix of young talent and experience. Iuri Filosi the young talent, Ivan Santaromita the expert climber and Alan Marangoni, leader in race and key man to lead young Italian and Japanese riders in group.
With a clear role division for each selected rider the Sports Director Mario Manzoni comments: “The Tirreno-Adriatico is a very important race, but also very strong both for the roads and for the competitors. The team have important objectives as they have all the selected riders for this race. The 8 #OrangeBlue selected riders are strongly motivated. Marco Canola, as each rider will have personal and team roles, he for example will have to compete in mixed stages but he will be also an important supporting rider for Eduard Grosu in the sprint. Julian Arredondo is growing up in condition he can be our additional value. Hideto Nakane he comes from a good Le Tour de Langkawi, now he could test himself with strong competitors. We will all start very focused and strongly motivated, because every stage could be “the one”.”
All the #OrangeBlue fans can follow the team and the race on TV, with Live broadcasting on Raisport1 starting from 1.30 pm, every day from 8th to 14th of March. Each stage should end around 4.40pm Italian time.
Here all the stages – Tirreno-Adriatico
Wednesday 8th – Stage 1 (TTT) – Lido di Camaiore › Lido di Camaiore (22.7k)
Thursday 9th – Stage 2 – Camaiore › Pomarance (229k)
Friday 10th – Stage 3 – Monterotondo Marittimo › Montalto di Castro (204k)
Saturday 11th – Stage 4 – Montalto di Castro › Terminillo (187k)
Sunday 12th – Stage 5 – Rieti › Fermo (210k)
Monday 13th – Stage 6 – Ascoli Piceno › Civitanova Marche (158k)
Tuesday 14th – Stage 7 (ITT) – San Benedetto del Tronto › San Benedetto del Tronto (10.05k)