Already in Japan the #OrangeBlue riders that will try to repeat the great success of the 2015 obtained in the “home” Tour in Hokkaido. In the 2015 for the NIPPO Vini Fantini was en-plein with a General Ranking won by Riccardo Stacchiotti and 3 stages victory from the Italian-Japanese team with the duo Stacchiotti-Colli.
On Thursday 1st of September the official start the Tour de Hokkaido in Japan, where the NIPPO Vini Fantini wants to reach good results as done in 2015. Great expectations and motivation coming also from 2015 results with the “en-plein” of the NIPPO Vini Fantini in the 2015 with 3 stage victories (2 of Stacchiotti and 1 of Colli) and the general ranking victory of Riccardo Stacchiotti. In the 2016 both of them will be in the line-up supported by Pierpaolo De Negri experience and by the desire to emerge of the 2 young riders Giacomo Berlato and Yuma Koishi.
A line-up that will be leaded by Hiroshi Daimon on the team car, with different possible strategies to adopt as Riccardo Stacchiotti, the leader of the 2015 Tour confirms with his words: “Last year I had the incredible opportunity to win this race, but first of all I’m a team-worker, I’m also ready to support all the other riders. There is Daniele Colli as leader for the sprint, Pierpaolo De Negri that is the blue jersey of the Tour of Japan 2016. If there will be some break away we have Giacomo Berate and also the young Yuma Koishi that is growing up. We will see how the race will go and what our DS will decide, but for sure as a team we want to repeat the results of 2015. Doesn’t matter who will be, the important thing is the team. We all come from a period of hard training in Livigno and we are ready to do good things.”
The complete line-up: Daniele Colli, Riccardo Stacchiotti, Pierpaolo De Negri, Giacomo Berlato, Yuma Koishi.
All the #OrangeBlue riders, except for the Tour de Hokkaido line-up, still are in the training camp in Livigno to prepare all the important races of September from Belgium to France, from China, to Italy up to the final of the month with RCS races: Milano-Torino, Gran Piemonte, and Il Lombardia.