🚴♂️ Allo UAE Tour arriva la fuga, 4° posto per Alessandro Tonelli che arriva a giocarsi la vittoria di tappa. 📰 Tutte le info e dichiarazioni del protagonista nella news: bardianicsf.com/bardiani-csf-f…
Alessandro Tonelli rues agressive racing as he misses out on unimaginable stage win at UAE Tour
CyclingFriday, 25 February 2022 at 14:46
Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè have had a wildcard to the UAE Tour and have been a constant presence in the day's breakaway, seizing the TV exposure that came along with the race's World Tour status. No-one would've predicted the Italian team would be within a shot of winning the sixth stage of the race however that was the case, but Alessandro Tonelli lacked the legs in the final sprint.
“Unfortunately at the end of my legs after 3 days of breakaway they said no in the final sprint, so at the same time I have some regrets, but I also keep close to a fourth place in a World Tour race that is moral. At minus 40 km we gradually started to accelerate, pulling hard and the last 20km with a favorable wind we went away at 60/70 hours and behind them they could not reach us," Tonelli said in a post-race interview.
Although a breakaway win was never to be expected from today's stage at the UAE Tour, Bardiani have placed two riders in front with Tonelli and teammate Johnatan Cañaveral making it to the front group. After being in the breakaway in stages one and four, Tonelli find himself once again in the head of the race, but he regrets having created so much fatigue in the days previous, which would've been crucial today.
The breakaway collaborated perfectly and Tonelli was in the group that went to fight for the stage win, but lacked the legs in the sprint and came home in fourth place behind stage winner Mathias Vacek.
"In the sprint I am not fast and against three opponents all from the same team it was not easy, I tried but congratulations to the winner. A fourth place that gives me morale for the next races," he added.
If he had succeeded this would have been the Italian's second win as a professional, after a win in the 2018 Cro Race. It is unclear where he will return to competition but with Bardiani having a stacked Italian calendar now in March, and a possible Giro d'Italia presence in May, the Italian will be keen to keep showing his form in order to keep targeting breakaways at World Tour level.
Just in
Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter today!
Nov 05, 13:04
0
Popular news
Latest comments
- I still can't believe how her teammates treated her that day. Her teammate literally sideswiped her and took her out and then after the race, the teammate claimed that she saw something yellow fall but she kept riding because she was going for the stage win (but finished 8th in the sprint). What the actual heck...Pogboom25-11-2024
- Many other drugs cheats also had no empathy.awp25-11-2024
- See if you can name one person whose career Lance Armstrong destroyed. Just one.
MarkFour25-11-2024 - Lance was the only one who destroyed people's careers to cover his doping. That is what made him a pariah.SeenItBefore24-11-2024
- I'm fine I'm fine just give me a bike. Epicspock12324-11-2024
- Doubt that, he is still competitive with the others stars but MVDP is another level.abstractengineer24-11-2024
- He already did it at the world champs. He may go very long thereabstractengineer24-11-2024
- For an agent, the more transfers with higher salary there are the better earnings they have. A bonus for the transfer plus a percentage of the salary.abstractengineer24-11-2024
- not unless mathieu is riding with a broken leg.OCexile24-11-2024
- When a guy like Madoff gets done do you spout off about all the others trying to fraud in a lesser style who didn’t really gain much from their efforts? It’s like taxes, if we’re going to pursue everyone equally we may as well never start. I’m fine that we start at the top, there’s plenty of work there. Once we’ve caught the big cheats then we can see how valuable it is going after smaller ones.Mistermaumau24-11-2024