In the super-rich Anadia's results from the European Junior and Under 23 Championships the speed sector has given a truly first-rate contribution, just think that in the largest category Ivan's boys Forty they took full booty, with the addition of David's gold Star in the junior standing kilometer and, icing on the cake, a gold and a bronze with peers.
Quaranta's analysis, which also focuses on the next World Cup, starts from this very fact, because it is something that was unthinkable just a year ago.
«In the women's field, the recruitment problem is age-old and far from being resolved. – he says – but precisely for this reason such results could not even be dreamed of when I took over the sector. I noticed, however, that the results achieved by the boys last year have encouraged a sort of word of mouth, a few girls got interested, they approached us and we're starting to have a little bit of quantity and also, as we've seen, quality."
How can these numbers be increased?
It's difficult. We know well, for example, that while BMX can be a tool for support in the men's field, this possibility isn't available among girls: the numbers in that specialty are too small. We continue to involve very young road racers, but it's not easy because the rapid evolution of the WorldTour is leading girls to look with interest at the road Knowing it can guarantee significant salaries. Women's cycling's cycling was once almost amateur; the only way to earn money was to join the military, and the track was the way to do it. Now there are other sirens...
Anadia's results are truly amazing…
There's a spirit of emulation, and those podiums will be useful. For example, we have Carola. Ratti who married the project, in the same way the Bertolini who won the keirin and I honestly don't remember an Italian winning a similar event as a junior, then the Fat which is still torn between the track and the road, but in the meantime we are there and already at a good level.
In this regard, one might think that so many important results are also the result of competition.
It is not so. Qualitatively they were European superior to those of last year and the times say so.: in the team sprint, the boys' time (43”990, a new Italian record, ed.) is a good 3 tenths lower than the time that earned them gold in 2022. In the women's sprint, where we came third, there were 5 teams, last year there were 4. Then each year it depends on who shows up, but the level was very good.
Coming to the boys, the feeling is that a certain rivalry is also developing between our boys.
Yes and this can only do good for the movement.or I have a group of 6 starters from which I have to choose 3 or 4 players called up each time, so even training sessions become a testing groundAnd from this comes the progress: Minutes for example, even though he wasn't in Anadia's trio, he made giant strides, he took off 3 tenths in a year which is a lot. Predomo in the 200m throw he is now running at 9”8, White He took home three gold medals. But more than the medals, the times tell me that our group has made tremendous progress. The boys had never gone under 44 seconds and they did it on a track that is not in itself very fast..
Now the World Cup awaits you…
It's like going with a team of under-23s to do the Tour de France of the greats... We start with two basic objectives: the first is to give the kids a fundamental experience, against the best in the world who are also ten years older. The second is to improve our times, for example, aiming to break the Italian record in the team sprint which could even take us into the top 10 and considering that 8 teams will go to Paris, it would mean that we are not that far away.
You touched on a sensitive subject: the Olympics...
We have always said that the project must be oriented towards Los Angeles 2028, these are all transitional stages, but for example In Glasgow we will have Predomo in the speed tournament and we haven't participated since the Chiappa eraAt the World Cup there will be 30 of them, in Paris 32, if that's the case... Then there's Miriam The evening That she'll qualify for the Games with a 90% chance, and I expect quality results from her too. We're going to Scotland to learn and prove that we're here now, too...
