Giulio Pellizzari

But obviously this team we have to talk about, they had this impressive streak winning, what was it, four in a row, the Italian team.

And you were hyping them up for the world championships to some extent, right? Ciccone was in there, maybe this fits Ciccone a bit better, but I mean, Ciccone is in there, Pellizzari, Scaroni, but yeah, it looks more defined in a way for Ciccone, this team, but I could be wrong.

Is this a two-pronged attack? What do you think of the team, Patrick? And what do you think they're going to come back to former glories of winning the European championships?

I think it's a two-prong.

2km at 5% is right in Scaroni's ballpark, and it's also good for Ciccone.

So I think they've got a two-prong attack.

I would love to see maybe like Pellizzari, even Fanchello, who, you know, Fanchello especially has been on Fantastic Four on the last month or so, but pretty much since the Czech tour, Fanchello's been on Fantastic Four, being the second in Czech tour, fifth in GP Industria, fifth in Giro della Toscana.

Third in GC at Giro d'Abruzzo, including a stage win in six in Maggiore di Campani.

So if people want to go and click that and verify, there's no, I think we was, uh, maybe, right there.

My Pellizzari one was terrible.

Your Quinn Simmons one was, I mean, that was, I'm not going to congratulate you on that because I think that was too much of a, too obvious, as they say.

Because Simmons is always going to be there, isn't he?

But the first major move that happens is a group containing Vanderpool, Wout van Aert, Get Up the Road.

That's responded to by, I think, Pellizzari makes it up there for Italy as well.

And a lot of the major nations are represented in there, meaning that Mexico has to... pretty much deployed that last rider before del toro quite early on in the race probably still with at least 100 kilometers to go to bring back that move and it was brought back pretty much by del toro attacking which meant to quite a weird race situation where there was about the number of riders present as you'd expect inside the last hour of racing but we still had at least 80 kilometers to go.

And then you ended up with that sort of counterattacking move as, you know, with, I think, Van Der Poel and Van Aerts stay away.

Will everybody else see it that way? I don't know.

But I think you've got Ciccone, Pellizzari, Scoronia are all realistic options who could be played here.

Batiol looked very good in Quebec and Montreal.

I think Finn will know the limits of his powers and will be used as a domestique.

But I think watch out for them getting early moves, for sure.

Like, if there's going to be a team who's going to be trying to animate the race early, I think they're going to let Ciccone try to sit in.

They're going to try to get Pellizzari, Bettiol, Scaroni, Piganzoli into early moves, maybe even two of them, and try and dictate the race to the others.

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