{"id":6228,"date":"2017-02-03T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cial.it\/?post_type=english_post&p=6228"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:05:25","slug":"new-servetto-giusta-alurecycling-team-presented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cial.it\/en\/new-servetto-giusta-alurecycling-team-presented\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW “SERVETTO GIUSTA ALURECYCLING” TEAM PRESENTED"},"content":{"rendered":"

After last year’s successful experience<\/a>, Consorzio CIAL supports women’s cycling once again through a partnership with the new \u201cServetto Giusta Alurecycling<\/a><\/strong>\u201c team.<\/p>\n

The Consortium continues to support sports and promote an increasingly important and popular ecological message:<\/p>\n

\u201cAppropriate separate collection of aluminium has huge benefits to offer the environment, because aluminium is 100% recyclable an infinite number of times, saving vast quantities of energy and materials, up to 95%<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

In addition to its partnership with the Astana men’s cycling team<\/a>, team of super-champions Vincenzo Nibali and Fabio Aru<\/strong>, for the second year in a row CIAL has also reached an agreement with a team including some of the most promising professionals in women’s cycling today.<\/p>\n

The team, which goes under the new name Servetto Giusta Alurecycling, is a member of UCI \u2013 Union Cycliste Internationale, a world-wide organisation coordinating international cycling competitions and including all national professional cycling federations \u2013\u00a0 and will be sending its athletes to compete in the most prestigious competitions on the calendar, including the Giro d\u2019Italia and the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

Throughout the year 2017 the 14 cyclists will be testimonials of an ecological message about recycling aluminium in Italy and all over the world, especially in Europe.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, January 28, the team was presented to the press at an event held in the historic \u201cCantina Contratto\u201d in Canelli (Asti), a winery founded in 1867 renowned as Italy’s oldest maker of sparkling wines, which hosted the official unveiling of the team from Asti chaired by Stefano Bortolato.<\/p>\n

14 athletes in the Elite category make up the team, directed by team manager Dario Rossino. Three continents and ten countries are represented on the team: Italy, Cyprus, Russia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Belgium and Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The spotlight will most likely be on Asian star Ting Ying Huang. The twenty-six-year-old Taiwanese sprinter won the Asian Championships in Nakhon Ratchasima in 2015, while last season she placed first in the first leg of \u201cThe Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhon\u2019s Cup \u2013 Tour of Thailand\u201d (UCI 2.2), completing the tour in second place, won the \u201cTour of Okinawa\u201d and, above all, placed first two legs in the \u201cTour of Chongming Island\u201d, a Chinese competition valid as a trial in the new U.C.I. Women\u2019s World Tour, a world-wide competition consisting of multiple trials which has taken the place of the World Cup. Huang also took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the Road World Championships in Doha (Qatar).<\/p>\n

New faces include Daniela Gass of Germany, who has raced in numerous international competitions in the past year, including the \u201cFestival Luxembourgeois du Cyclisme F\u00e9minin Elsy Jacobs\u201d, the \u201cTour de Feminin \u2013 O cenu Ceskeho Svycarska\u201d, the \u201cBeNe Ladies Tour\u201d and the \u201cLotto Belgium Tour\u201d; thirty-two-year-old Femke Verstichelen of Belgium, who placed first in the \u201cBrugge-Dudzele\u201d, was on the podium in the \u201cHerentals Fietst\u201d, in the Oostkamp and Naast competitions, and in the \u2018top ten\u2019 at Hulste, Putte, Ledegem, De Klinge, Haasdonk, \u201cMaria-Ter-Heide\u201d (Brasschaat), Ninove, Arendonk, Borgerhout, Beveren-Waas, Nieuwpoort, Oedelem and Eeklo in 2016 ; young Russian cyclist Ksenia Dobrynina, thirty-year-old Colombian climber Laura Camila Lozano Ramirez, on the podium in the 2016 national championships, sixth in the Panamerican championships and eighth in the \u201cG.P. della Liberazione Pink 2016\u201d; Khazhak cyclist Natalya Sokovnina; expert Brazilian climber Clemilda Fernandes Silva; Francesca Pisciali of Bolzano, Italy, who is not yet eighteen and is making her d\u00e9but in the Elite category, and twenty-six-year-old Swiss athlete Aline Knechtli.<\/p>\n

Five athletes will be back this year, in addition to Huang. They are the talented young Italian Alice Gasparini, who placed in the Junior Timed European Championships, Gaia Tortolina of Piedmont and Letizia Borghesi, who starred this winter on the gravel roads of the cyclo-cross competitions and made her d\u00e9but in the top category, the twenty-four-year-old medal-winning Cypriot cyclist Antri Christoforou, who competed in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and came first in the \u201cArava-Arad\u201d and \u201cDead Sea-Scorpion Pass\u201d U.C.I.\u00a0 1.2 international competitions in Greece, and twenty-nine-year-old Russian climber Anna Potokina, who will be wearing the Piedmont team’s shirt for the fourth year in a row, a strong candidate for the role of \u2018director on the go\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cA very important new season in competition begins today, opening a new Olympic four-year period which will culminate in \u2018Tokyo 2020\u2019 ,” noted Servetto Giusta Alurecycling president Stefano Bortolato during the presentation of the team. “I wish to thank all the sponsors who believe in what we are doing in women’s cycling. We hope to reward them for the trust they have placed in us once again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team is well amalgamated, and the athletes are already very much united, very close despite their different nationalities, ” commented Team Manager and Sporting Director Dario Rossino. “We will be taking part in all the most important competitions in the World Tour and do our best in all kinds of competitions and routes. The most important events undoubtedly include the \u2018Giro Rosa\u2019, the classic races in the north, the various national road and timed championships, the European championships and the world championships. The team will make its official racing d\u00e9but on Saturday, March 4 in \u2018Strade Bianche\u2019, a competition on gravel roads which is a U.C.I. Women\u2019s World Tour 2017 trial event, with the participation of all the strongest athletes on the world cycling scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

ATHLETES<\/p>\n