{"id":85944,"date":"2019-05-07T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/?p=85944"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:53:47","slug":"deceuninck-quick-step-for-2019-giro-ditalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/2019\/05\/07\/deceuninck-quick-step-for-2019-giro-ditalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceuninck &#8211; Quick-Step for 2019 Giro d\u2019Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the famed maglia ciclamino last year, when he captured a whooping four stages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiC-aT54oniAhVqdt8KHVVLAagQ6F4wAXoECAgQAg&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Feliaviviani%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor&amp;usg=AOvVaw3PVL5ExI5-QCX-KhcvbkZh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elia Viviani<\/a> will make his sixth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giroditalia.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> appearance after a consistent first part of the season, which resulted in four victories, all at World Tour level. The 30-year-old comes at the start in Bologna with the beautiful and iconic Italian Champion jersey on his shoulders, an extra motivation for the best sprinter of 2018 to add to his growing palmares.<\/p>\n<p>Twice winner of the best young rider classification (2016, 2017), Bob Jungels returns at the Corsa Rosa after two years hoping to be again a major player in the general classification, like he was at his previous outings, when he finished each time in the top 10. With two victories (Tour Colombia stage 3 and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne) under his belt this year, Bob is confident that he can be a protagonist, aided also by the almost 70 kilometers of individual time trial at the 102nd edition (Bologna, San Marino and Verona).<\/p>\n<p>The experienced Eros Capecchi, Fabio Sabatini, Florian S\u00e9n\u00e9chal and Pieter Serry \u2013 who between them have nearly 50 Grand Tour starts \u2013 will also be on Deceuninck \u2013 Quick-Step\u2019s squad for the first three-week race of the year, the line-up being rounded out by two Grand Tour debutants: neo-pro Mikkel Honor\u00e9, who has impressed as part of the team\u2019s Ardennes Classics contingent, and James Knox, a top 10 finisher this season at the tough UAE Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The race will kick off from the city that is home to the world\u2019s oldest university for just the second time in its history, but unlike 1994, when the sprinters had their time in the sun, the time trialists will be the one in the spotlight now, on the difficult uphill finish to Santuario della Madonna di San Luca. Between Bologna and Verona (where the Giro d\u2019Italia will conclude for the first time since 2010), the sprinters will have their fair share of chances, but ultimately the climbers will be provided with more opportunities to shine and make the difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe come here with two leaders: Elia Viviani \u2013 who backed by a very strong and experienced sprint train, will look to win again stages in front of his home crowd, this time in the Italian National Champion jersey \u2013 and Bob, who\u2019s going to have another tilt at the GC favoured by the three stages against the clock. There\u2019s a number of stages which should be important in the fight for the overall \u2013 from Ceresole Reale and Courmayeur to the one featuring both Gavia and Mortirolo later in the race \u2013 but the plan is to take it day by day and see what happens\u201d, explained sports director Davide Bramati, who\u2019ll lead the team from the car together with Klaas Lodewyck and Rik van Slycke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riders:<\/strong> Eros Capecchi (ITA), Mikkel Honor\u00e9 (DEN), Bob Jungels (LUX), James Knox (GBR), Fabio Sabatini (ITA), Florian S\u00e9n\u00e9chal (FRA), Pieter Serry (BEL), Elia Viviani (ITA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports Directors:<\/strong> Davide Bramati (ITA), Klaas Lodewyck (BEL), Rik van Slycke (BEL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the maglia ciclamino last year, Elia Viviani will make his sixth Giro d\u2019Italia appearance after a consistent start to the 2019 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":85945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[111],"tags":[9783,22617,22659,3024,20154,16344,20153,22208,20305,18912,8260,21915,6512,20755,1616,20745,9608,20919,20741,21230,20796],"class_list":["post-85944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giro","tag-bob-jungels","tag-bologna","tag-bramati","tag-brussels","tag-cycle-racing","tag-cycling-2","tag-cyclists","tag-davide-bramati","tag-deceuninck","tag-deceuninck-quick-step","tag-elia-viviani","tag-eros-capecchi","tag-fabio-sabatini","tag-florian-senechal","tag-italia","tag-james-knox","tag-klaas-lodewyck","tag-mikkel-honore","tag-pieter-serry","tag-rik-van-slycke","tag-verona"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/elia-viviani.png?fit=652%2C433&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}