Geelong West Town Hall to become Italian cycling headquarters

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The Geelong West Town Hall will become the official Italian team headquarters during the 2010 UCI Road World Championships.

Whenever Italians compete at an international event such as the World Cup or the UCI Road World Championships they create their own little slice of Italy, known as the Spazio Azzurri or blue space, named after the famous blue jerseys worn by the Italian national team.

Claudio Parente Events Manager at the Italian Chamber of Commerce is responsible for setting up the Spazio Azzurri at the Geelong West Town Hall.

“Spectators will be able to visit the Spazio Azzurri free of charge – it will be like an Italian festival every day with roving entertainers playing traditional music, Italian wine and food, and a number of al fresco areas.

The Italians are expected to bring approximately 75 people to Geelong for the 2010 UCI Road World Championships including competitors,…

SMP at the Tour De France

After Giro d’Italia, the SMP Saddles is present also on the biggest stage of the world cycling.

The characteristic saddle, made absolutely in Italy, has flown to Rotterdam in Holland, for the 97th Tour de France. It will travel together with the group until the Champs-Élysées of Paris, thanks to the Pro Tour Footon-Servetto-Fuji team .

The “golden” team guided by Joxean Fernández Matxin and Sabino Angoitia sees together the following nine “magnificent ones”, all of them beginners: Italian Eros Capecchi and Fabio Felline, Spanish Aitor Pérez Arrieta, Alberto Benítez, Arkaitz Durán, Iban Mayoz and Rafael Valls, Portuguese Manuel Cardoso and Austrian Markus Eibegger.

For each of them, it’s the dream that’s coming true. The aim of the Gold Generation is to win one stage at least. With the medium age of only 25 years and a half, it’s the youngest team of the UCI Pro Tour which takes part in…

Footon Servetto 3rd in Cesenatico Stage 13 Giro D’Italia

Iban Mayoz Echeverria (Footon-Servetto) taking third place in a sprint from an early breakaway

Stage 13 Giro D'Italia  - In the stage dedicated to Marco Pantani and finishing in his home town it was another local who took out the stage, Manuel Belletti (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox pipped Sky Team s Gregory Henderson for first place with Iban Mayoz Echeverria (Footon-Servetto) taking third place in a sprint from an early breakaway.

Kirsty Broun on the Podium again!

Kirsty Broun (Aus) leads the attack

Australian Team member Kirsty Broun rounded out the Podium again in Belgium with an outstanding 3rd place in the Omloop Van Borsele.

The final placings were identical to the Ronde Van Gelderland held earlier this month, with Kirstin Wild (Cervelo Test team) in first and Rochelle Gilmore (Lotto Ladies) in second place.

Rose fever around the riders of SMP Saddles

Rose fever around the riders of SMP Saddles continues. Thanks  to the Gold Generation of the Footon-Servetto-Fuji the SMP Saddles reached the place in the first line at Giro d’Italia 2010. 

The 93^rd edition of the rose race which unusually starts at Amsterdam, Holland, will see also the characteristic and  inimitable saddle with its original beak tip and central canal which make all the products of Franco and Maurizio Schiavon brothers’ company from Padua unique and  unmistakable. The television images transmitted worldwide and watched by over 350 millions of spectators will exalt the product that is already appreciated very much by anyone who had tried the comfort of the innovative SMP Saddles.  

The nine bikers of Footon- Servetto-Fuji chosen by Mauro Gianetti for Giro d’Italia, out of any scheme and ready to gain the victory are as follows:

101 (the number on the shirt) Ermanno…