Just a few months after a long-term injury all but wrecked Alessandro de Marchi’s 2015 season, the BMC Racing Team rider rode away into the mist at the end of the Vuelta’s stage 14 for a victory that has put de his career back on track.
“This spring I had a really bad case of tendinitis in my left foot’s Achilles tendon,” De Marchi explained to reporters, “and I could not pedal my bike from April 1st to June 10th.”
“I had started noting the effects as early as December the previous year [2014], but it only really started getting serious in races.”
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“It’s been a very hard period but I have to thank the team, and those who have been close to me over these recent months for their support.”
As well as a major rebound on a personal level, De Marchi’s stage win also represented a significant comeback for BMC Racing in the Vuelta. In a rollercoaster race, the squad won the opening team time trial, then lost both Tejay van Garderen and Samuel Sánchez, their top names, to injuries - van Garderen abandoning after the big stage 8 crash in Murcia, and Sánchez just hours before De Marchi won.
“We’ve had some bad news in this race with Tejay and today Samuel, but we’ll keep on fighting in the breaks,” De Marchi promised.
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