Final report from Varese

Today was the end of this very exciting week.

Yet from the night many people come here in the city and in the early morning the streets was very populated like the top of a big event...and this was a big event, the most important for this city from the "Mondiale of '51".

Like always I put me in my place in a curve of Montello's climb.

Obviously today the atmosphere is of a big party, when you can find old friends that you don't see from years and can talk with everybody, like the most important etage of Tour or Giro.

The air of morning is fresh dut the sky is sunny. The race begin very slowly except for three escapers that gain almost 18 minutes in the first part of the race. This confusing a little bit the countdown of laps:the first group passed beginning a lap when the big group had risen from a few of minutes for the previous lap. So until half of the race the atmosphere was quient, happy but not too exicing por spectators:three escapers and a too sleepy group. In the middle of the race finally the group begin to increase the shrink by italians in a passage, after that the race woke up and later i can see a normal world championship evolution of race, with escapers, followers and others escapers and others followers. In the middle of the race I see italians working hard, after they was many people in the head of group and after again I see a Cunego's attack with spanish team very fast and careful.

The last time that the race pass from Montello the situation yet was clear, Bettini was too late to return in the group and same the spanish team so the race would be decided with escapers.

So fast i run at my home to see the final in television.

Well, honestly after the U23 race i was tought that this final was for Ballan (he make a good Vuelta)or Kolobnev(I don't know very good but in the Mondiale he's always there) or another second line and not too Freire, Bettini or Boonen. But when i see that he work too early i was thinking that he arrive too tired to finish. Obviously i was wrong and he kept energy. I'm just a little bit sorry don't to be in the center of the city at the moment of the final attack but...hey, you can't want everything :-)

So with this i finish my serie of reports, from tomorrow Varese will return to be the city of always, the big circus of the big mondial event quit and maybe my next report will be from Tre Valli Varesine hoping in a better english and a better prose.

I put here just some pictures of the race of today and tomorrow i think i will add more photos of this week here because are too many.

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I forgot...If I bet 5 euros on this guy now i have 150 euros.

The next time i will bet...and i will lose.