Mayomaniac said:
proffz said:
great engine , great performance.
he needs time to completely develop as a rider, both from physical and technical standpoint.
he is only 20, with very limited experience on road.
androni and savio are not really the best place where to develop.
they makes him run too much ( already 3000 k of racing in this season, san juan , langkawi, TA...) , always pushed to the limit, with very few help.
savio has a 4 year contract and he is going to put a lot of hype on egan ( already last year he revealed his test and vo2 max results, saying that were among the best ever) and he wants him to show all his talent in order to sell his contract for a lot of money.
egan runs the risk to spend to much energy and stagnate....
i am not so unhappy that he cannot ride the giro this year.
egan is a rough diamond , he needs to work o his ITT, on downhill, on positioning in the peloton etc etc.
he has nowbody teaching him the profession in andiron, since pellizotto went away.
savio is good in finding new talents, but he is not famous for working and developin young riders.
he is supposed to prepare himself with bartoli and his manager , paolo alberati is a former mtt professional rider involved in preparing training programs for amateurs.
they both have to show many things in this fields.
i would prefer egan could develop his enormous potential in abetter situation ( orica, saldarriaga, may be movistar, even if they are vey cautious with young riders...)
Torres could be a good mentor for him. I know that Androni hasn't the best reputation when it comes to developing young prospects, but they did a good job with Diego Rosa.
torres has just a couple of season in european cycling with team colombia and corti, not a great reference.
his best season with team colombia has to be credited to j. leguizamo, that prepared him when he revealed at tour san luis.
diego rosa comes from corneliano, a small town 30km from torino, where savio lives. diego was racing for a mountain bike team held by f. bechis, who lives very close to torino . savio was just lucky because of this , and diego is very serious guy, with a lot of work ethic that was taught to him by bechis and diego's family.
diego improved a lot last year with martinelli and when he was with androni savio was trying to build a training structure with some young technicians.
this structure helped diego , but savio let this structure fell down because it costed money.
in other words , diego did not learn that much from savio , that again was lucky ( and clever, too) to find diego and his big engine.
imho, diego is still paying the delay in education at pro level, even if he had good maestros like pellizotti.
imho, egan has less chances than diego, because andiron' s structure is folding.
i think that savio is not motivated in developing egan enormous skills, he is just waiting the right moment to sell his contract.
savio likes very much money, less the riders.
he is not very popular among south americans that have raced with him.
betancur , by the way, is another rider trained by bartoli...