He sees the climb as a cinema, is inspired by Froome and Pogacar. At Vuelta he found the first success as Pro, he is one who launches, a driver and who believes us when he says he runs “to see children happy”
To us, who find out to question the stars to understand who will be the next Italian runner from great laps, Giulio Pellizzari has always made a shiver feel. It will be his way of throwing himself into the race: open -hearted. The same he has when he speaks, when he smiles, when he tells his dreams. Without filters, without protections, without network. In the same way he runs, as he did when he started meeting the first victory of his professional career, over the Upper De El Murredero. Giulio grew up imagining runner, dreaming of winning the Giro d’Italia or the Tour de France one day. It was destiny that the first time should be at Vuelta, at the bottom of a stop from climbers, in a surreal climate: in the black of the mountain burned by one of the worst fires that Spain has ever fed, the white shirt of Giulio seemed to be a cure for all pains. Also to ours, eternally looking for a runner to invade us. We like Giulio because it instinctively knows what the climb is. “It is evasion, it is an abstract world in which the more static, the more dream. The idea of detaching others, to see them struggling, is, it is cinema, the climb, and everything that happens around: the fans, the children. I run to see people happy, the children in particular. I like to give show,” he told La Repubblica at the end of the last season.