Colbrelli in tears after missing out at Roma Maxima
Italian sprinter ▨still chasing first 🌊professional win
Sonny Colbrelli (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bardiani-CSF) was in tears after the finish of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Roma Maxima after again failing to win hi𒁃s first ever pr🌺ofessional race by one second, a few bike lengths and a moment of hesitation.
The Italian sprinter has shown some excellent for this season and but could only shout out in anger after ꦬcrossing the finish line behind winner Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and Davide App𝐆ollonio (Ag2r-La Mondiale), who won the bunch sprint, one second behind the Spaniard.
"It's always nice to get on the podium but I've neꦛver won as a professional, but I hope it happens soon.🥀 I can't believe I went so close today," he told journalists at the finish after the podium ceremony.
"The team did an incredible job and I really wanted to pay them back with a big win but I made a mistake in the sprint. I hesitated a second before lau🍒nching my sprint and then I was caught between [Philippe] Gilbert and the barriers. I'm not cold-blooded like some of the other sprinters."
With no race radio allowed in Roma Maxima because it is not a WorldTour category race, Colbrelli did not know that Valverde and Pozzovivo had managed to hold off the peloton all the way to Rome. In the clo♚sing kilometres, he thought he was about to sprint for victory.
I🌄n a hectic and thrilling finale, the sprinters and their teams caught Pozzovivo but Valverde cleverly started his sprint early and crossed the line first.
"To be honest I didn’t know that Valverde and Pozzovivo were away, I only saw then in the fꦗinish straight," he said.
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"I'd seen that the Yellow Fluo rider (Rabottini) was off the front in the final ki♊lometres but then when we caught him, I thought we were sprinting for th꧃e win."
Colbrelli has been riding well since the start of the season and third at Roma Maxima was his tenth top-ten result of the year. He was fourth at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trofeo Laigueglia and second at last weekend's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:GP di Lugano.
He is hoping to finally break his duck and win his first ever p🍎rofessional race sometime in Ma꧋rch.
"Third is goo♛d result and boosts my mo💟rale for the sprints," he said.
"I can only hope t🧸o win big at Tirreno-Adriatico. This gives me more confidence for Milan-San Remꦗo, too."
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