{"id":762133,"date":"2026-06-26T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:06:09","slug":"ganna-is-ready-for-the-tour-de-france-after-italian-tt-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762133\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganna is ready for the Tour de France after Italian TT win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filippo Ganna<\/a> has been crowned Italian time trial champion for the seventh time. The 29-year-old from Netcompany INEOS left the competition in the dust on a challenging course just over 40 kilometers long. The time trial was overshadowed by a hard crash involving Edoardo Affini<\/a>.Ganna delivering a magnificent time trial on home soil couldn’t have come at a better time for Netcompany INEOS. In the run-up to the Tour de France, the British team has so far faced nothing but bad news. K\u00e9vin Vauquelin\u2019s illness<\/a> makes his participation uncertain and Oscar Onley has been ruled out<\/a> entirely due to an injury.<\/p>\n

Ganna is usually a safe bet in July. Just like at the Giro d’Italia, he was in a class of his own in his discipline. Luca Giaimi finished second, somewhat surprisingly, for UAE Team Emirates-XRG, though at a deficit of 2.06 minutes. Mattia Cataneo rounded out the podium, finishing third for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, 2.36 minutes behind.<\/p>\n

Read more below the Italian time trial results!<\/p>\n

Visma | Lease a Bike and B\u00e4ckstedt celebrateAfter Wednesday\u2019s many time trials, there was plenty of racing against the clock on Thursday as well. In addition to Affini\u2019s recent injury, Visma | Lease a Bike also welcomed a new national champion, Vikt\u00f3ria Chladonov\u00e1, in Slovakia. The young women performed well in the elite category anyway, as 21-year-old Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt became the British time trial champion<\/a> again, defending her title by 20 secs over Morris.”It feels great to win the title again and to be able to wear the jersey for another year. I’m really happy about that,” Chladonov\u00e1 said in a press release from her team<\/a>. “I think I started out a little too fast, because I couldn\u2019t quite keep up the pace in the final stretch. Still, I\u2019m incredibly proud to have won again.”Eduardo Affini crashed after just 6kmEduardo Affini may now miss the Tour de France after a hevy crash at the Italian time trial championships. Visma reported on X<\/a> that he was conscious after the crash, but they will continue to monitor him. Filippo Ganna, who won the Italian time trial, said afterwards: ‘I feel sorry for Edoardo, I hope he recovers in time.’<\/p>\n

In the Italian hospital, Affini was givin a ‘code green’ which is reserved for a ‘non-emergency situation or minor procedure’. Reportedly, Affini has not broken anything, but Visma | Lease a Bike will ultimately have to provide news of his Tour de France participation in the coming days.<\/p>\n

After Wout van Aert’s removal from the provisional Tour team (replaced by out-and-out climber Davide Piganzoli), the loss of another ‘big man’ would be a blow to Vingegaard’s chances of winning a third Tour de France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filippo Ganna has been crowned Italian time trial champion for the seventh time. The 29-year-old from Netcompany INEOS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,74722,59639,135704,82],"class_list":["post-762133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-filippo-ganna","tag-ineos-grenadiers","tag-national-championships","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}