"Cycling is' a team sport": WORD OF PHILIP POZZATO 
"My friends helped me to win without them the victories would not come 'so he told
Filippo Pozzato students of" Pantani " which met today to Palayamamay. The rider then has doubts: "Cycling is a team sport." The presence of a group
height, said the champion of the Katusha team finished fourth at the World Championships last month in Australia, "is essential, particularly in the three major stage races: the Giro, the Tour, the Vuelta." But team spirit is something that goes far beyond simple runners who wear the same shirt: it involves a much larger staff, which has a team manager role: the role played in the case of companies that ride Pozzato, of the
Roberto Damiani, who spoke to the runner Palayamamay together to explain its function "Team coordinator, who maintains a relationship of mutual respect with the athletes, from preparation to the race: the race especially when it feels really a team, because it seeks to involve all the riders in achieving the same objective."
For the Katusha team was also present
Massimo Besnate , sports medicine, a task which, he said, is "not only in treating the physical form, but also in ensuring the laws governing the sport." From this point of view, clarified Besnate, "the Italian legislation is one of the most advanced in the health of the athlete: is among the best in Europe." Indeed, as added Damiani, just cycling, often overwhelmed by the doping controversy, "is the sport that ensures greater transparency, with athletes who must always be available to screen blood and urine and that they must declare their every move." Thus, even if the riders give a percentage of their premiums for the anti-doping controls, another proposal that would for this purpose even 1% of their salary: "I do not think right, but if it helps the credibility of this sport, so be it. " Moreover, "as ever at this time cycling was under control: we do not have a personal life free, but the important thing is that the people to understand. I make this sacrifice for future generations. " A sacrifice, on the other hand, is well rewarded by the satisfaction of victory: 'In two or three seconds when you realize that you are winning you feel an emotion that you can not express, "said the rider from Vicenza to
Gianluca Modesti , a student of class VB and promising youth of the two wheels, as well as his classmate Arianna Coulter
, VA, also spoke during the dialogue with the sample, with which it has been made both capture (photo below).
In any event, not the cycling sport with more cases of doping cases "in 90% are amateurs or Mediofondo, not elite athletes," said Damiani yet. And
Pantani, wanted to clarify in this regard Pozzato, doping is not dead: is dead, however, because "he is not someone that was humanly close, perhaps it could be considered only as an athlete and too little like a man." So the rider wanted to remember the Pirate, which is headed our high school.
short, as explained by the high school sports coordinator Sara Ciapparelli , today was an opportunity to "know the joys and sorrows that this profession entails and to know not only the experience an athlete, but also the technicians who work on his staff and allow us to better understand the dynamics that govern the sport at a professional level. "
not missed the meeting a fan of cycling of exception: the mayor of Busto Arsizio Gigi Farioli . The mayor brought his greetings to the students, confessing his estimate athlete guest: "A few weeks ago I was among those who hope in the first place well in the world."
"High School" Marco Pantani "is one of the top of Busto Arsizio and almost uniformity in provincial and regional landscape": with these words, the mayor has Gigi Farioli this morning addressed his greetings to the students of our school, meeting the Palayamamay for the meeting with the cycling champion Filippo Pozzato . 
