If Filippo Conca hadn't won the tricolor jerseyWho could have spoken of him? How many riders like the Lombard have passed and continue to pass, filed away as expired practices to make room for others? Someone wrote that it's time to rewrite the rules: maybe it won't happen, but it's certainly useful to stop and think..
They bombard us with the momentum equation, which directly connects the set of physiological values and the career and earnings prospects of an athlete. It may be right, indeed it certainly is. However, we have lost sight of the awareness that a worker cannot be dismissed if, for a variety of reasons, he has not yet been able to express himself. Here we are talking about lives, families, mortgages, aspirations, suffering, and the future. We are talking about people, and we do so superficially. driven by the goal of profit and with the lever planted deep in the dreams of not too aware kids.
Nothing happens by chance
If Filippo Conca hadn't won the tricolor jersey, the equation would have confirmed the expected result. Instead The Italian championship's finish order puts the best of Italian cycling behind Filippo: the long list of more or less prodigious kids, including those who in one way or another took his place in the group. And that's not all. Lo Swat Club, which allowed Conca to continue running, also placed in the top five Mattia Gaffuri. And then you ask yourself: how is this possible?
Sure, the tricolor jersey has already ended up on impromptu shoulders on other occasions, but this is no longer the cycling of yesterday. This is cycling where an equation establishes who can or cannot win and so Conca's victory cannot be by chance.. Covi said it very well, interviewed immediately after by Filippo Lorenzon. And they also say it the values of Conca, who arrived at the Italian race working at altitude and running wherever he was allowed, with excellent placings in gravel and also in the Tour of Austria.
The grain in the mechanism
If Filippo Conca hadn't won the Italian national jersey, he probably would have stopped racing. Maybe not right away, though. the track along which they had channeled him led towards a silent abandonment of the scenes. When it came to reassembling its staff, the Q36.5 had in fact chosen to do without him, focusing on other names. Perhaps for this reason, by crossing the finish line, Philip in turn imposed silence with a clear gesture of his hand.
Behind him on the Gorizia straight were WorldTour riders in condition for the Tour de France and those of the professionals who fight at every finish line for the hunt for points. Even athletes from various I have to team up and our home continentals. A tricolor like this is not won by chance, and yet until a few minutes before the start, no one would have bet a single cent on ConcaThere were great champions and young talents. In this cycling that sometimes forgets what a rider really is and that is often governed by agents rather than technicians, Conca's victory is the classic grain that jams the mechanismSomething to talk about, to avoid it being attributed to chance or luck.
