This year’s Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile - part of the new Women's WorldTour, has been officially presented at the Colnago factory in Cambiago, with the nine-day stage including a tough mountain finish to Tirano that includes the Mortirolo, an 21km individual time trial to Varazze and a final mountain stage to the Sanctuary of Madonna della Guardia in Alassio on the Ligurian coast. The race ends in Verbania, on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore, north of Milan.
Several riders who will be in action in July attended the presentation including Elisa Longo Borghini -who won the blue Jersey in both 2014 and 2015, Japanese national champion Mayuko Hagiwara - a stage winner in Morbegno, Canyon – SRAM’s Barbara Guarischi and Italian national champion Elena Cecchini.
"We all want to win every stage,” Elisa Longo Borghini said enthusiastically. "It will for sure be a hard Giro and as well, we’ll be thinking about the general classification."
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The Italian riders will also be fighting for selection for the Rio Olympic road race squad.
"I'm happy because there is a beautiful stage at in my home town,” Cecchini said of the race. “I training on these roads and I'd love to win it, the goal is to conquer a place for the Olympic Games. We have a strong team and we will see which roles we will have."
As main sponsor of the race, the Colnago name will appear on the race leader’s pink jersey. I was one of the first people to support women’s cycling and I’ve learnt there isn’t men’s cycling or women’s cycling but just cycling,” Ernesto Colnago said. “Women are great riders and I only needed a handshake with the Giro Rosa organiser Giuseppe Rivolta to confirm my support.”
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