Winning sprint of Nicolas Marini, long and strong in Tour of Qinghai Lake. In one of longest stages of the Tour, after 235 km, the young #OrangeBlue sprinter get his first success of 2016 after the 4 victories of 2015 with a good work from all the team.
Tour of Qinghai Lake, 8th stage.
235km da Ledu a Linxia, the second stage for number of km of the Tour de Qinghai Lake. The young sprinter of the team reach his first victory of the season, after the 4 of 2015. After some unlucky false of this season that have stopped his performance, starting from the one of the Tour of Turkey where he was riding also to get a chance for the Giro d’Italia rooster, but he was stopped by a fall in the first stage, now he get his revenge. A good victory in a sprint against specialist as the other young sprinter from Wilier-Southeast Jakub Marezcko and on Francesco Chicchi, that arrived second and third.
Great enthusiasm of the enfant prodige of the sprint from NIPPO Vini Fantini team “What a wonderful emotion come back to the victory, in special way with such a team work! My team mates Genki Yamamoto and Manabu Ishibashi have been working hard in front of the group together with some riders from Wilier Southeast to control the race, then Riccardo Stacchiotti was perfect to put me in the right position. It was a long sprint, but after the job of by team I had to do my best to win. This victory for me is double because it comes in a so long stage. I’m working hard on this kind of stages to improve my chance of victory in order to become also most important for my team.”
On the team car great satisfaction also for Shinichi Fukushima, the Japanese Sports Directors at hi first year with NIPPO Vini Fantini that already lead the team to win the Tour of Korea and now this important stage in China.
Pictures credits Adrian Hoe