{"id":17559,"date":"2023-03-05T18:10:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/filippo-ganna-targets-tirreno-adriatico-time-trial-and-much-more\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T18:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:10:36","slug":"filippo-ganna-targets-tirreno-adriatico-time-trial-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/filippo-ganna-targets-tirreno-adriatico-time-trial-and-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Filippo Ganna targets Tirreno-Adriatico time trial and much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/filippo-ganna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filippo Ganna<\/a> will start in the final wave of riders of Monday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tirreno-adriatico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tirreno-Adriatico<\/a> time trial, with Ineos Grenadiers hoping the rain will have eased when the Italian rolls down the start ramp at 3:40 pm local time in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Rain and 20km crosswinds are forecast for much of Monday on the Tuscan coast, north of Pisa, with the 11.5km time trial going up and down the pan-flat seafront between Lido di Camaiore and Marina di Pietrasanta. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest paywall\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI\u2019ve been messaging with my coach about the weather. He thinks it should be the same for everyone and so it\u2019s a lottery for everyone,\u201d Ganna said with his usual pragmatism on Sunday, perhaps aware he has few time trial rivals in this year\u2019s Tirreno-Adriatico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThere\u2019s only really one corner, the rest of the course is fast, even if it does rain. We\u2019ll see but I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll be easy, whatever the weather. I don\u2019t know how my rivals are going or if they\u2019ll be competitive. We\u2019ll see on Monday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It is difficult to see who can beat Ganna on the pan flat out and back 11.5km course along the Tuscan seafront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He won a similar stage in 2022, beating Remco Evenepoel and Pogacar by 11 and 18 seconds respectively. However, in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/wout-van-aert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wout van Aert<\/a> (Jumbo-Visma) beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/stefan-kung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefan Kung<\/a> (Groupama-FDJ) and Ganna to win the 10km final time trial stage. The Belgian has beaten Ganna on other occasions too but the Italian beat him to win the world title in both 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Van Aert was quick to play down his chances after his recent illness and loss of training time while at altitude, and with both Evenepoel and Pogacar absent. Van Aert has opted to start his timer trial early and is off at 12:56 pm local time. Wilco Kelderman gets Jumbo-Visma\u2019s last time trial slot at 3:25pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It is difficult to see who can produce more power and more speed than Ganna on Monday. It is his race to lose. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/primoz-roglic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primoz Roglic<\/a> (Jubo-Visma) is riding but is making his season debut after his complex shoulder surgery and gradual rehabilitation during the winter. Most other time trialists have been sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/paris-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris-Nice<\/a> for the vital team time trial stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Names to remember include early starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/quinn-simmons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quinn Simmons<\/a> (Trek-Segafredo), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/tom-pidcock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Pidcock<\/a> (Ineos Grenadiers) and Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Ganna will ride in Italy for the time this year at Tirreno-Adriatico and is glad to be on home turf, even if it comes with bigger expectations from the tifosi and himself. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI\u2019m still young but I\u2019m starting to feel old. It\u2019s my seventh Tirreno-Adriatico, I\u2019ve always ridden as a professional because it\u2019s always nice to race in Italy and feel the support of the Italian tifosi. I hope I don\u2019t disappoint them,\u201d Ganna explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI focused on the Tour de France and other things in 2022 but I\u2019m happy to be back at the Giro d\u2019Italia this year and I\u2019m happy with my calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI\u2019ve already ridden the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/vuelta-a-san-juan-internacional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vuelta a San Juan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/volta-ao-algarve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volta ao Algarve<\/a> em Bicicleta. Now I\u2019ve got Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo and then Belgium for the Classics. The Giro will come quickly after that, making for a busy first half of the year. I\u2019ve already told the team I\u2019ll be on holiday in June, with my phone off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Ganna also rode the European Track Championships in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/ganna-and-italy-remain-team-pursuit-benchmark-at-european-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helping Italy win the gold medal in the team pursuit<\/a>. He intends to mix track and road racing until next summer\u2019s Paris 3024 Olympics. However, he is focusing more and more on road racing and even stage racing rather than just time trialling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">If he wins the opening Tirreno-Adriatico time trial, he will pull on the blue leader\u2019s jersey and could keep it all the way to the stage 5 mountain finish at Sassotetto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Ganna can climb despite revealing he weighs 88 kg. He can produce huge power for his weight, helping him to fight the effects of gravity. He will try to survive on the 13 km climb to the Sassotetto finish but knows that his overall rivals include far better climbers like Adam Yates, Brandon McNulty and Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/enric-mas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enric Mas<\/a> (Movistar), Wilco Kelderman (Jumbo-Visma), Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost), Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious), Ben O\u2019Connor (AG2R Citro\u00ebn) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/aleksandr-vlasov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandr Vlasov<\/a> (Bora-Hansgrohe). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI want to do well, otherwise I wouldn\u2019t have come,\u201d Ganna said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI always want to do well in the time trials but I also want to show I\u2019m a road rider too. So if I have to do extra work in training on my road bike, then I do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI\u2019m not setting myself any limits for Tirreno, I\u2019ve got the freedom to ride my own race but you never know how the race will unfold in the early season, especially in the cold and rain, which is expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt\u2019s a hard race again this year, with three stages over 200km and three stages with more than 3000 metres of climbing. I\u2019ll suffer but that\u2019s part of racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/filippo-ganna-targets-tirreno-adriatico-time-trial-and-much-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filippo Ganna will start in the final wave of riders of Monday\u2019s Tirreno-Adriatico time trial, with Ineos Grenadiers hoping the rain will have eased when the Italian rolls down the start ramp at 3:40 pm local time in Italy. Rain and 20km crosswinds are forecast for much of Monday on the Tuscan coast, north of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6804],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}