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TEAM EUROPCARAT giro

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ROCHELLE GILMOREAND THE DREAM TEAM

INTERVIEW: Giorgia bronzini
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Some news on the roaster and an established leader, Giorgia

Bronzini, in the best moment of her career as a professional

cyclist. The team headed by former pro Rochelle Gilmore

faces the new season with renewed ambitions of victory.

The 16-rider lineup has been strengthened in key areas

and has set itself up to achieve the tough target of matching

last years 22 wins in UciI road races

Last year I expected three wins in our first year, said team manager, Commonwealth Champion Rochelle

Gilmore. We actually had 22 Uci wins and over 50 race wins. It is a hard year to follow, our first year was reallyphenomenal, but we have added some strength to the team. We have some big ambitions - Gilmore explained-, Of course the Giro dItalia is very important for us, because of all our Italian sponsors. We would like to wina stage there again, if not a few, its still one of the most prestigious womens races.A clear target for the team in 2014 will be to take victory in one of the nine rounds of the World Cup, havingcome so close in the Tour of Chongming Island last year, while some of the new, prestigious races on the

calendar will also be big goals.The black and orange team retains its British core, with the three Olympic Champions: Laura Trott, Dani Kingand Joanna Rowsell, along with fellow World Track Champion Elinor Barker and former British and EuropeanChampion Amy Roberts. The British riders dominance of the velodrome has already continued into 2014 withvictory in the first ever Womens Team Pursuit over four kilometres, along with Rowsells maiden title in the

Individual discipline. Double Olympic champion Trott recently completed the first ever perfect Omnium in anInternational event. She won all six rounds of the contest at the recent Revolution event on the boards of theLondon Velodrome where she took her medals in 2012. Wiggle Honda Pro Cyclings two Italians return, in theshape of Giorgia Bronzini, the three-time World Champion on Road and Track who scored 17 of Wiggle HondaPro Cyclings UCI victories last year including a World Record six straight stages of the Route de France and emerging Track star Beatrice Bartelloni. Eight-time Japanese champion Mayuko Hagiwara also returns for

2014, having enjoyed her first full season in Europe, with a Kermesse victory in Belgium and some strong workfor her teammates to her credit. Wiggle Honda pro cyclings already international line up becomes even moreso in 2014, with the addition of Swedish road race champion Emilia Fahlin, while Spanish time trial championAnna Sanchis will add strength to the team in hilly races and stage races.Team captain Bronzini best summed up the feeling inside the 2014 Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling line up with the

words: This is my Dream Team.

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team

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Giorgia Bronzini (Italy)

Laura Trott (Great Britain)

Dani King (Great Britain)

Joanna Rowsell (Great Britain)

Linda Villumsen (New Zealand)

Charlotte Becker (Germany)

Elinor Barker (Great Britain)

Emilia Fahlin (Sweden)

Mayuko Hagiwara (Japan)

Rochelle Gilmore (Australia)

Peta Mullens (Australia)

Anna Sanchis (Spain)Emily Collins (New Zealand)

Anna- Bianca Schnitzmeier (Germany)

Amy Roberts (Great Britain)

Beatrice Bartelloni (Italy)

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling 2014

rider line up

The team rides on Colnago C59

and Colnago K-Zero for time trial

THESTRONGERInterview:

Giorgia Bronzini is the top athlete on the

team. During her career, among other

victories, she won two golds at the roadworld championships (Melbourne 2010

and Copenhagen 2011) and one on track

(2009 Puzkov , Poland).

She has the cue in the sprint and

endurance to win. This year she is in

her thirteenth season as a professional

cyclist, as she made his debut in 2002

with the Top Girls team, and has already

caught a success at the Grand Prix de

Dottignies in Belgium.

Are you satisfied with the results obtained in the last season?

Very. It was my best season since Ive been a professional cyclist. I got

eighteen wins, much more than I could hope for at the beginning of theyear.

What are the reasons behind these victories?

After so many seasons spent in the Italian teams I wanted to try forthe first time a foreign team. A difficult decision, but that has proved

successful. I found an ideal environment to express the most of myself.Excellent organization and planning. It is close to perfection. Pretty muchthe opposite of what I was used to.

After so many years,

how can you still be so ambitious and motivated?

At its core is a passion for cycling. I like cycling and victories are thenatural consequence. I do not mind working out. I will continue to run up tothe Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in 2016 , then well see. At the time, Ill be33, the right age to hang up the bike.

Cycling on the road and track .

Will you continue to ride on both disciplines?

Of course; I still think that the work on the road is useful to track and

vice versa. Obviously, according to the objectives and the time of the year.The feeling with my technician is well established , we have no problem tohandle different seasonal commitments.

In which way did you change your trainings and rides

over the years?Early in my career I was a pure sprinter, so explosive with very littleresistance. The races to which I could aspire could be counted on thefingers of one hand. In the course of my career I worked a lot on strength,without losing my main quality. Today I can be very competitive even onclimbs of 3-4 miles, not more, so the chances of winning the one-day races

have grown significantly. The two Worlds victories taken on the road are theresult of a great job on the basis of resistance.

Finally, have you seen the streets of the worlds in Ponferrada ?

Do you think you can win?

No, I have not seen and do not even know if Ill be able to win. Im sure,

though, that I will be 100 % fit to help the national team. My two wins (2010and 2011) I got them thanks to a great team work, I am indebted to thenational team. Of course, if at the appropriate time I will have the chanceto win the third rainbow jersey, Ill try to take it.

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Team Europcar

The French team, Europcar, will again be racing on Colnago at the most important Italian stage race theGiro dItalia. The teams return to the World Tour, after four years of absence, will allow fans to see the brilliant

black-green team kits again on our roads. Their comeback was more than deserved, due in large part totheir extremely successful previous season in which they stood atop the podium 27 times (more than most ofthe teams in the first division). Six were collected by young star Bryan Coquard, aged 22 and considered byexperts as the sprinter of the future, in his first year as a pro. Will he be also racing for the Rosa? Most likely,yes. He will also be joined by Pierre Rolland, an excellent climber in the three-week stage race and one of the

best riders at the 2012 Tour de France, and the Japanese national road champion Yukiya Arashiro. Arashiro isanother important rider focused on success at targeted stages. The team, managed by Jean Ren Bernaudeau,is always well positioned for the spring classics and has also taken two wins in the third and fourth stage of the

Etoile de Besseges with Bryan Coquard.Best results for 2014: 26th place at Milan- San Remo with Alexandre Pichot, 11th place at Tour of Flanders

with Vincent Jerome, and 24th place at Paris-Roubaix with Yannick Martinez. During these races, riders havesuccessfully raced a variety of the proven Colnago frames they have at their disposal: the C59 Italia (thepredecessor to the C60), M10s, CX Zero (like Pichot at Milan-San Remo), and Prestige (the cyclocross-specific model) during Paris-Roubaix.

TargetingGiro

Bryan Coquard Team EUROPCAR - Victories 2013

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Colnago Pro Cycling Team

Today the Uci mountain bike world cup cross-country racing season opened onthe spectacular course at the Cascades mtb park in Pietermaritzburg, South

Africa. Colnago pro cycling Teams Eva Lechner gave it all she had on herColnago C29 Italia. After going strong for the first three out of total five laps,sitting in sixth place less than two minutes behind the leader, in the last twolaps she faded and lost positions to finish in thirteenth place. Eva is still missingsome power after her flu two weeks ago. I am still not in top shape after beingsick, it was also very hot today and that didnt help, Eva told after the race.

Jolanda Neff (Liv pro Xc team) won the womens elite race in front of Gunn-RitaDahle (Multivan Merida biking team) and Jolandas teammate Maja Wloszczwska.Colnago pro cycling teams Manager Jernej Sobocan says that the internationalcalendar had only just started and that Evas form is on the rise. She has torecover well and to get some good training in to get ready for the next World

cup race in Cairns, Australia in two weeks time, Jerry told us after todays race.

Mtb world cup:the season is started

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The box to the left of the C59, beside that of C60.

The difference in width is more than evident.Note also the engagement of the tube.Star shape for C60, classically round for C59.

The team: from left, Emilie Collomb, Eva

Lechner, Andrea Waldis e Nathalie Schneitter

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