The highest-ranked Israeli start-up group (at least in the sprint), entered the last line before the jump to the Giro d'Italia, which will leave Sicily this coming Saturday • Sylvan Adams: "Believes we can achieve another historic milestone in the Giro"
Gib Sagiv.
This coming Saturday it starts
Photography:
Bettini Photo
Less than two weeks after finishing the Tour de France and entering Israeli sporting history, the Israel Startup Nation team entered the final line today (Wednesday) before the jump to the Giro d'Italia, which will leave Sicily this coming Saturday.
Israeli champion Guy Sagiv, who only two years ago was the first Israeli to break the glass ceiling when he jumped to the historic Giro in Jerusalem and successfully finished 3 weeks later in Rome - made it clear that this time it is a completely different challenge for him and the team:
"I developed as a rider, I do not come this time to take a ride just to finish the race. I believe I ride better, with more experience and also with confidence elsewhere. My ambition is to help the team take victory here and get a chance to escape. It's going to be It is much more challenging and much more difficult than the historic gyro that the whole country will never forget. "
Startup Nation this time puts a different and even daring and revolutionary vehicle for its third gyro - with a bet on the entire pot to go for a victory in the sprint.
So she sends the 21-stage Giro the hardest stages including at least 6 distinct ascents - the vehicle that aims to try to win the relatively flat sections.
She placed two sprinters in the team - the Frenchman Rudy Barbier, who has already signed two victories this season, and the Italian Davida Chimulai, who always culminates in the Giro.
"We come focused," Sagiv explained, "and I believe we have the tools to go for this victory."
Guy Sagiv. Want to even surprise // Photo: Bettini Photo
Startup Nation has indeed sent experienced riders for this purpose: the British Alex Dowst, the Austrian Matthias Brandella and the German Rick Zabel, along with the Canadian Alex Catford and Guy Sagiv - will together form Sun's "train".
In the ascent sections, it will be veteran Spanish climber Danny Navarro who will be the leading rider.
Another card of the team will be the counter-clockwise sections including the opening section on Saturday in Palermo.
Dowst (British Champion) and Brandella (Austrian Champion) belong to the world top in the field.
The owner of the team, Sylvan Adams, who intends to accompany the team to the Giro after the huge experience at the Tour de France, said: "The Giro in Israel will of course always be remembered by all of us as a source of great pride - and the status that marked the big turn for the team. This is another historic milestone. "