The latest issue of Procycling is out now, featuring an exclusive interview with Vincenzo Nibali ahead of his Giro d’Italia title challenge. He reflects on a difficult 2015 in which his Tour de France defence fizzled out quickly and he was ejected from the Vuelta a España for taking a tow from a team car. Plus, there was the damage to his reputation caused by the spate of doping cases that hit his Astana team in the second half of 2014. He tells the magazine he felt “massacred” by the media all last season. No wonder he “felt a need to get back” to his national tour.
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Could the Giro, arguably the world’s most beautiful race, move to July and go head to head with the Tour? That’s the scenario many heavyweights in the sport believe could happen if the on-going standoff between the Velon faction and the UCI on one side and Tour organiser, ASO, on the other isn’t resolved. Procycling looks just how likely that is and also previews the race in detail. The magazine assesses both the parcours and how favourites such as Nibali, Sky’s Mikel Landa and Rafal Majka (Tinkoff) are shaping up for the first Grand Tour of the year.
Staying with the Giro theme, Procycling interviewed the 2012 winner, Trek-Segafredo’s Ryder Hesjedal about pulling off the biggest result of his life and looks back at Roberto Visentini’s 1986 win. Visentini was talented, impetuous and a perennial Giro favourite and it took him nine attempts to finally win the maglia rosa.
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