The last Italian winner of the Classicissima (2018) gives up: he had Covid, then tonsillitis and fever. In the legs only 5 days of competitions: “I don’t feel like going to run it. I don’t have the fund, I don’t have the condition, I don’t know how I am yet “
Nothing to do: Vincenzo Nibali at the Milan-Sanremo on Saturday 19 March will not be there, except for sensational twists. The Shark, as we know, after the Vuelta Valenciana at the beginning of February (which ended on the 6th), he no longer ran: he had Covid and then also tonsillitis, with fever. He remains the only Italian in business to have triumphed in the Classicissima (2018, before him Pozzato 2006 was the last) and for this reason he is aware of the fact that, despite missing 15 days, he could not have an acceptable condition.
Words “I don’t feel like going to run the Sanremo – he explained to us with the usual honesty -. I’ve been standing still for too long. I don’t have the fund, I don’t have the condition, I don’t know how I am yet. You can’t improvise a 300-kilometer race like Sanremo like this. I really think not ”. With Astana, between this weekend and the beginning of the next, we will take stock of the situation to draw up a possible calendar for the resumption, with a first question mark on the Milan-Turin on March 16, and then evaluate the possibilities which offers the calendar after the Classicissima, therefore in the last ten days of March.
March 5 – 07:10
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