In Barberino di Mugello, the Abruzzo rider from Lidl-Trek received the most important award in Italian cycling from Moser. “I will aim to win the stages and do what I do best, no stress for the overall”. Recognition also goes to Pruzzo, the former Genoa and Rome striker who has a profound knowledge of cycling
Giulio Ciccone has decided: stop making rankings in the grand tours. Now the goal will be to conquer as many stages as possible without having to stress about the general classification. The 30-year-old Lidl-Trek champion from Abruzzo reveals his future in Barberino di Mugello, where he received the prestigious Giglio d’Oro, the most important award in Italian cycling, from Francesco Moser. An award created by Saverio Carmagnini and Alfredo Martini in 1974, and thus now in its 52nd edition.
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“My season was very good – says Ciccone, accompanied by his wife Annabruna -. Every year is made up of ups and downs, there was the crash in Gorizia at the Giro d’Italia which forced me to retire on the eve of the big mountains when I was sure I would have done very well, and beautiful moments like the second place in Liège and the victory in the San Sebastian Classic. The goal is to repeat 2025 by starting well straight away, perhaps making my debut at the UAE Tour. My dream is to win a Monumento classic, my dream is the Liège, and I consider that second place behind Pogacar a victory. In 2026 I will race the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France but I already declare that, whatever stage race I do, I will no longer fight for the classification and do what I do best: attack even from afar, win the stages (he was the best climber in the Giro in 2019 and in the Tour in 2019). 2023, ed.) I also want to wear the pink jersey that I miss, but now I want to go back to enjoying the stages and the races, having fun.”
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The other prizes went to the tricolor Filippo Conca, to Michele Bartoli (Franco Ballerini prize), Giada Borgato (Giglio Rosa), to the writer Fabio Genovesi (Franco Calamai prize), to Ludovico Crescioli (Nencini Memorial for the best revelation), Francesco Matteoli (Gino Bartali prize) and Niccolò Iacopi (Tommaso Cavorso Memorial). Roberto Pruzzo, unforgettable bomber of Genoa and Rome, and great connoisseur of cycling, received the Alfredo Martini award, and amazed those present with his profound knowledge of cycling.
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