ANDRONI SIDERMEC STILL PROTAGONIST WITH RIVERA AND SOSA

Today in the uphill finish of the sixth stage in La Grita the two South Americans of the Italian champion team still stand out. Kevin Rivera and Ivan Sosa finished respectively in fifth and seventh place in the fraction won by the Venezuelan Marquez on Baron and Abreu.

Androni Sidermec worked for most of the stage to try to close on the usual break of the day and favor the final two talents, who are doing so well in Venezuela.

«It was a good day for us today», Androni Sidermec team manager Gianni Savio commented hotly from the finish line. “We are going beyond what the forecasts of the eve were that we wanted to fight and try to win with the sprinters, because we are there before even in the hard stages with our climbers”. Speaking of climbers at Androni Sidermec at the Vuelta al Tachira came the welcome visit of Leonardo Sierra. The former Venezuelan climber, who lives in Santa Cruz de Mora, right from where the Tachira left again this morning, warmly greeted his mentor Gianni Savio. Sierra with the Savio teams won, among other things, also a stage in the Giro d’Italia all’Aprica and a Giro del Trentino in the early 90s. The occasion was used to exchange a chat and of course to pose for the most classic of the ritual photos with the two young grimpeurs dell’Androni Sidermec Sosa and Rivera. In the middle, of course, Gianni Savio who unites, not only ideally, the past and the future of South American climbers. Succeeding, judging from the results of these days at the Tachira, once more already declining everything quite well to the present.