Filippo Ganna back in action and aiming for Tour de France and double national championship success
Italian returns to racing with big ambitions after two month break and altitude ca♍mp

After two months out of action, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Filippo Ganna (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ineos Grenadiers) returns to racing on Wednesday at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Baloise Belgium Tour before taking aim at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, the Vuelta a España and before hand the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Italian national championships.
Winning a Tour stage and winning the road race at nationals are two things that the Italian has never done before, and could see him complete the triple of stage wins at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia, Vuelta and Tour.
Ganna hasn't raced since 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix, but in before the Baloi🌳se Tour, he said he is feeling good as he builds towards those big goals.
"A little better, even, than before the Tirreno-Adriatico, which in a way I can consider the highest point of the season in terms of performance," he told La Gazzetta dello Sport of his fitness.
💯"I still have some time to refine everything before the important events."
Ganna's time of♚f the bike – which included skipping the Giro d'Italia in favour of other goals – saw him training hard at altitude and spending time in the wind tunnel and on the track to continue to refine his set-up and equiﷺpment ahead of the time trials at nationals and the Tour.
However, as well as winning on his TT bike, Ganna would like to add the Italian road title to his palmarès for the first time, something he admits will be difficult but certainly a possibility a🍌fter his stand-out performances in the Classics this spring.
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"I know that it will be anything but simple," he said. "There will beꦜ teams with many riders, fierce opponents, while I will only have Salvatore Puccio as a teammate, returning after his crash and injury at the Tour of the 🍌Alps in April. But I will try. It will be up to the others to control the race, it will be up to me to try to exploit any mistakes."
After nationals, Ganna is – if selected – set for the Tour de France, where his main ambition is to win a sta🅰ge to add to his victories at the Giro and Vuelta, and join the club of riders who have completed this triple.
Ganna could certainly win a road stage, but will also be looking at the one flat time trial in the race, on stage 5, though he'll be up against the GC riders, including world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel, who will likely be his biggest rival.
"In the last two World Championships and at the Olympics he beat m💧e, not by much, but he beat me. So I would say he's the rider to beat," Ganna said when asked about Evenepoel.
"Of course, if I put a number on my back, I never set out to com𒐪e in second. Plus, in a Grand Tour, the time trials follow a different logic to the one-off races of the Olympics and World Championships."
Gannaꦍ called his hiatus from racing the "right break to make" after the spring, but what remains now iཧs to see where he is in terms of racing form.
"I'm curious to see if my feelings in training will be reflected in🎐 competition, and in comparison with my opponents," he said.
The Baloise Belgium Tour will be the firꩲst test, before the Italian time trial championships on June 26, the road race on June 29, and the start of the Tour on July 5.
Matilda is an NCTJ-qualified journalist based in the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025. Prior to that, she worked as the Racing News Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Red Bull and more. She has reported from many of the big♔gest events on the calendar, including the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. She has particular experience and expertiꦜse in women's cycling, and women's sport in general. She is a graduate of modern languages and sports journalism.
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