In Grenchen the assault of the Piedmontese: final preparations, then we will start to get serious
Filippo Ganna’s approach at hour X is going by according to plan, that is to say at 20 this evening at the Grenchen velodrome (Switzerland) where the 26-year-old Piedmontese from Ineos-Grenadiers will attempt the assault on the Hour record currently held by Dan Bigham, the British engineer and cronoman of Ineos who in Grenchen on Saturday 19 August had reached 55,548, improving the 55,089 of the Belgian Campenaerts who had resisted since 2019.
The Ganna base is a hotel in Solothurn, a quarter of an hour by car from the Swiss plant of Grenchen where the German Voigt and the Australian Dennis had set the record in the past: the weather for now in the area is cloudy and in the morning it also rained.
Preparation
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Ganna did a 30-40 ‘ride on the bike and did the muscle activation exercises. Lunch at 1pm, without forgetting that about 3.30 / 4 hours before the attempt she will still eat a plate of pasta. The protocol for entrances to the velodrome is very strict: for example, the press will be able to access from 6 pm to 7 pm, from that moment no one will enter to allow the best environmental conditions to be maintained. Minimum goal: one meter more than Bigham. Although Ganna might try to go further if everything turns out well. Ganna is naturally followed by coach Dario David Cioni and at the track side during the attempt (which will be broadcast live by Eurosport and RaiSport in Italy) will give him lap times Marco Villa, track manager. Among other things, the National team will move from Grenchen on Sunday to Saint Quentin en Yvelines, not far from Paris, where the World Cup will start on Wednesday. But this is not the time to think about it: first there is the Now. The Hour of Ganna.
October 8, 2022 (change October 8, 2022 | 14:28)
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