Ciccone: “I lost 15 years of life, I finished”

Exhausted, yet he finds the availability to stop and answer. Giulio Ciccone’s World Cup was valiant, who closed Sesto in Kigali, even if the 6’47 “collected by Pogacar are a heavy detachment. But here is the analysis of the 30-year-old Abruzzo of the Lidl-Trek, which we will see at the Tre Valli Varesine of 7 October and Lombardy of 11 October, while the Giro dell’Emilia on Saturday 4 October is in doubt.

Giulio, the race decided on Mont Kigali …

“Yes, it was known that it was the key point. However, honestly, I did not expect the path so hard: in the tests we had still had a feelings.

“It was in the beginning of a new race. I was fine, we were 5 blue in that group in pursuit. But the world championships to another changes everything. And when EvenePoel started with Healy and Skjelmose, I made a downhill offense, he was afraid of how strong he was a strong Remco. So I had to give up a little, manage me. I think it was the hardest day of my career”.

How does the result evaluate it?

“The greatest regret is to have not managed to keep that group, but I paid for that offside. There were not many shots to shoot, at most one. And maybe I spent it at the wrong time. But I arrived dead, finished, I have nothing to complain in this sense. Being sixth in such a hard race is not a little. I had the feeling of having lost 15 years of life in 6 hours, an atrocious thing. exhaustion “.

Did Italy done the best?

“Yes, even if arriving in the five would have had a different flavor. But I could not give more, the team has shown to be a nice group and the coach Marco Villa, at the first experience, has obvious merits in this. Many things on TV are not seen, but the companions did the dirty work great. I had to run a little more remittance than usual. If I can repeat myself, it was an extreme effort”.

Would you have signed for a sixth place?

“I think it’s the strongest ever, there is nothing else to say. There is very little to do against him. I was almost sure he wins.”