Giro news shorts: Romandie winner Zakarin to race Italian Grand Tour for experience
Petacchi to lead Southeast Pro Cycling in Italy, knee injuryꦛ sidelines Veelers from Giro start
Zakarin heads to the Giro d'Italia to gain experience
Following Ilnur Zakarin's overall victory at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie on Sunday, Team Katusha director Dmitry Konyshev said that his Russian GC contender will start the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia with the purpose of gaining valuable experience.
"I think for this year we have to be happy with his good result as it met his goal and now he goes to the Giro𝔍 d'Italia for experience. I think it's very important for him to꧃ go to this race and see how he does in a three week race," Konyshev said.
Katusha not ❀only won the overall classification at the Tour de Romandie but Simon Spilak was second overall. They also won the team classification, and the point and mountain classifications with Maxim Belkov. "We're very lucky with the group of riders at this racꦕe as they came in prepared and got the results. Many of them will go to the Giro and we will hope for more results from there," Konyshev said.
Knee injury sidelines Veelers from Giro d'Italia start
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Veelers will not start the upcoming Giro d'Italia alongside his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giant-Alpecin 𝔍squad because of🐭 a knee injury that needs more time to recover. He will be replaced by fellow Dutchman Tom Stamsnijder, the team announced.
Veelers underwent keyhole surgery at OCON in Hengelo, the Netherlands, four weeks ago to repair a small cartilage imperfection. "I was hoping for a faster recovery so that I would be ready for the Giro d'Italia, but disapp🔯ointingly we need to postpone my comeback again, after already cancelling my participation in the Tour de Romandie," Veel🔜ers said.
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"At this moment it is better to fully r♕ecover than to return to competition too early, and I am not yet at 100 percent. Thereᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ are plenty of goals ahead of me this season, so I don't want to force anything now," said Veelers, who is an important part of the team's lead-out train.
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