Marta Bastianelli

So it's a different race, a bit more like a sprinter.

But these more impressive classics are also from a less heavy physique.

But in the races that are before Fiandre, which are always the same athletes that are close to Fiandre, I had already obtained good successes.

In fact, I was first in the World Tour classification.

The day before, a certain my brother-in-law writes to me, I am convinced that you will win tomorrow.

And instead he was right, that good Alessandro.

Among other things, I had been in Belgium for about a month, we had taken a house there with the team and I stayed there focused on that race.

e mi ricordo che il mercoledì che c'è ancora facciamo il attraverso le fiandre una gara che si fa proprio prima però era 120 km io quella gara lì faccio

I do second and the race ends at 6 o'clock because in the morning there were the men, so also there, in short, a good match and we arrive at about 6-10 o'clock, I arrive, I do second, podium, I do doping, etc.

and to my sports director, who was a team at that time, it was a foreign team, Virtu,

I tell them I want to go back to the hotel by bike, it makes me dizzy, but it's 6.10 p.m., it's dark, I mean, it's now, I say yes, but the race, the Fiandre, on Saturday, is 150 km away, in short, it's long, I want, at least, it makes me feel good, so in the end, it was useful, it was not useful, I don't know, because then I already had, it was already 45, 50 minutes that I was still, because between one thing and another, no matter how fast they can be to do everything.

Anyway, I keep in mind that I have to go back to the hotel by bike.

Let's go back, that she with the lights on and I behind, that it was raining, in short, a scene, my companions were already there to eat, right?

And they told me, but this will be exausted, because...

But then I win, so that's what I say, that many things when you feel like doing them, even if they are right or wrong, and you win, everything is canceled.

Ah, because the winner is always right.

Yes, because then maybe I didn't win and I said, but who the hell made me do it?

Poi era stato uno dei fiandre più particolari della storia perché era un caldo micidiale e io mi ricordo che il giorno prima mandai una foto a casa e gli dissi guarda che io ho fatto il segno alla Maya, cosa stranissima perché qui si va sempre in giro.

Sì, lo vinci!

Then another particular anecdote was that in the morning I was first in the World Tour classification so there was the cyclamen shirt to wear because the first in the World Tour classification you use the UCI shirt with the cyclamen color.