Marta Bastianelli

Arriva una guerriglia di giudici al nostro camper, di che ho fatto già prima di partire, vabbè non mi fanno partire, ci fanno guardate allora noi non abbiamo la taglia della maglia adatta per la ragazza perché abbiamo una taglia grande.

Today you can decide if you want to race with the European championship jersey or the big one with the cyclamen.

I then had a team manager, a certain Bjarne Rys.

And he had come to see that race, he never saw each other.

He never saw himself, but he came to see this flounder and he looks at me, he looks at me, he looks at me and he says, you decide Marta.

And I tell him, well, but a flounder with the European championship shirt when it happens to me to do it, right?

It's okay, it's not okay, I don't know, but we decided to start with the team shirt, authorized by the UCI, and then the boating on the streets was always at the highest levels, in the sense that you realize the true and proper cycling.

in the following years then there is always that memory there when you pass that they recognize you and they shout your name then on the coppenburg I heard just my name no and I said but how do people know that my name was maybe they were Italian or even but in any case the cyclist culture is completely different it is another world it is like the soccer here the cycling

I don't know!

At Christmas, many people have sent me the San Pietrino, where my name is, because...

there they do so when you win this classic on a piece of the pavè they write your name and there is really a road dedicated to all the winners of the fiandre so it's a museum just for the winners of the fiandre so every now and then they send me this photo like dead

Yes, that day it's all closed, they don't want to know because everyone goes down to the square to see that race, from the biggest to the smallest.

Absolutely.

competizione che può essere a Milano Sanremo come abbiamo visto lo scorso anno ma anche il perché no la trevali varesina ma io credo che sia fondamentale questo per la nostra visibilità perché comunque tante persone dicono ancora ma perché c'è il giro d'Italia femminile e quindi questa è una cosa un pochino brusca per noi perché poi ti rendi conto come fa la gente ancora a non sapere che c'è il giro d'Italia femminile

So I think it is an important approach that at that time there was nothing, we were not followed for anything.

I sent home the message, I leave at this time, I arrive at this time, when I arrive I call you, now you know everything.

Fortunately we got so close to this world of video vision.

And I think that whoever in men's cycling can help us in this, that is, in the sense of being inserted in these races, especially during these races, being seen in the world vision, I think it is the emblem of the exception for us.

But then the discourse of weight, women, food is very sensitive for the woman herself, because we know that women are never asked about age or weight, so this is obvious, I'm not telling you anything.

No, we're kidding, but it's a very serious discourse.