Cycling Pro Road & MtbBusy schedule for golds in first weekend of August
In the aftermath of a Tour de France quite successful for all the team, riders from FOOTON-SERVETTO-FUJI are not stopping as the calendar takes on this weekend with two differentiated blocks. A first unit commanded by Joxean Fernández Matxin will be heading into Euskadi to take part in the two one-day races making the second 'Big Week' in Basque cycling, with a hillier 30th Clásica San Sebastián (UCI ProTour, Saturday 31st) and a softer, more traditional 65th Circuito de Getxo - Memorial Ricardo Otxoa (UCI 1.1, Sunday Aug 1st). Most from the strongest riders into the Gold Generation's Grande Boucle roster will be making their next outing on Guipuzcoan soil, as Alberto Benítez, Eros Capecchi, Arkaitz Durán, Aitor Pérez Arrieta and Fabio Felline join fresher Pedro Merino, David Gutiérrez Gutiérrez and Johnnie Walker. On ther other hand, the squad at Getxo, a race more suited for sprinters, will give a break for Benítez and Capecchi in favour of two top sprinters -Vidal Celis and Enrique Mata-, replacers alongside David Gutiérrez Palacios and Argentinean Daniel Díaz, opening here his trainee stage in Gold suit. In turn, a second group will be taking of for Eastern Europe to take up on Sunday with the 67th Tour de Pologne (UCI ProTour, Sunday 1st-Satufay 7th), a 7-day stage course opening with a flat route of 175km from Sochaczew to Warsaw, and concluding at Krakow after very demanding routes in the South, including three mid-mountain treks on the Carpathian and Tatr mountains to Cieszyn (Wednesday 4th), Ustron (Thursday 5th) and Terma Bukowina (Friday 6th). Led by Giampaolo Cheula, recovered Markus Eibegger and top Tour of Austria finisher Matthias Brändle, Golds are putting their hopes over the shoulders of sprinter Michele Merlo, returning into action after a forced 3-month break following his bad crash in Giro d'Italia's stage 6 in Carrara. Ermanno Capelli, Marco Corti, Martin Pedersen and David Vitoria complete the roster.
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