Ivan García Cortina will be the main asset of Movistar team in the 105th edition of Milan-Turinthe oldest race on the international calendar, started in 1876, a test just three days from Milan San Remo, the first “monument” of the year.
Two of the most emblematic races on the calendar will leave the Lombard capital within a short space of days, both with a close history to the fast men of the peloton, as many of them have won back-to-back races.
García Cortina came to the event ready to continue developing in the season and improve the results achieved so far in the one-day classics, he was fifteenth in the Omloop, eleventh in the Kuurne and 43rd in the Strade Bianche.
Movistar will present the candidacy of the cyclist from Gijón with a team to complete Carlos Canal, Gonzalo Serrano, Sergio Samitier, Einer Rubio, Lorenzo Milesi and Davide Cimolai.
Among the men to follow is a group of veteran sprinters who already know what it means to raise their arms on the Via Roma in Turin, among them the British Mark Cavendishwon in 2022, the French Arnaud Démarein 2020, and the Norwegian Alexander Kristoff.
The Dutch are not present Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor), who won in 2023 ahead of Colombian Fernando Gaviria.
The route is a little more demanding than in 2023, but there are no major changes. The race starts from the metropolitan area of the capital of Lombardy and up to the center presents a long plain until reaching the Canavese with the first climbs to Cossano Canavese and San Martino.
When the race enters Salassa, there will be a 42 km circuit that includes two small climbs of 3.7 km each. The one in Prascorsano has a gradient of 7 percent and the other in Colleretto Castelnovo softens to a 4. From the last difficulty to the finish line there are 17 km, the last 9 flat, to the finish line banner.
Source: La Verdad
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