Remco Evenepoel is ready to lead the team at the 105th edition.
Once again starting and finishing in Legnano, Coppa Bernocchi will mark our team’s first outing of next week in Italy, where we are also scheduled to race the Tre Valli Varesine and Il Lombardia, which will bring to a conclusion our European season. As has happened in the past, the parcours is built around the hilly circuit in Valle Olona, where the peloton will tackle the Caramamma climb – also known as the Piccolo Stelvio (1.5km, 6.6%) – a total of seven times.
Three years ago, after spending the entire day in the break, Remco Evenepoel attacked from the distance, dropped his companions and soloed to what was at that time his first victory in a one-day race on Italian soil. Recently crowned ITT World Champion for the second year in a row, a success that came just six weeks after the took a pair of gold medals at the Olympics in Paris, the 24-year-old Belgian will be in action on Monday, together with Mattia Cattaneo, Antoine Huby, Fausto Masnada, Andrea Raccagni, Pepijn Reinderink and Mauri Vansevenant.
“In the past three seasons, we won twice and racked up a total of four podium finishes in Bernocchi, so it goes without saying this is a race we like a lot and where we hope to be again in contention for a good result, on what will be a demanding and quite selective parcours. Things didn’t go as planned for us in Emilia, but that’s cycling, and this only motivates us even more for Monday”, said Soudal Quick-Step sports director Davide Bramati.
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