{"id":227822,"date":"2025-10-27T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:13:13","slug":"elia-viviani-goes-out-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227822\/","title":{"rendered":"Elia Viviani goes out with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elia<\/p>\n

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A World Championship in his last ever race: not a bad way to go. <\/p>\n

\"Iain<\/p>\n

In 2006, a 17-year-old Italian called Elia Viviani rolled onto the boards at the European Track Championships, held in Athens, and announced his arrival to the world of track cycling. In the scratch race \u2013 a discipline in which first over the line wins\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Viviani outlasted his competitors and set up an imposing run of results on the velodrome that would last for almost two decades. Medals and jerseys would keep on flowing at Italian championships, European championships, world championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By 2012, he was a senior, and the results on the track didn\u2019t slow. But as the years ticked on there were other priorities \u2013\u00a0other races to compete in, other formats to try to make a mark on. After a four-year stint with the Italian road team Liquigas-Doimo (2010-2014), Viviani sought a new way to balance the demands of track cycling and road cycling. The Rio Olympics were on the horizon in 2016 and from 2015-2017 Team Sky offered him the freedom to pursue the breadth of his ambitions. He repaid them with his debut Grand Tour stage win at the 2015 Giro, rolled into Rio with endurance in his legs, and gave Italy a gold medal in the omnium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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For the entirety of his 16-year pro road career, Viviani has straddled the divide between being a top track rider and one of road cycling\u2019s faster sprinters. For many cycling fans, it\u2019s just the latter that they\u2019ll associate with him\u00a0\u2013 a career of 90 wins, nine Grand Tour stage wins spread across all three, a European road championship and a national road championship among them. He\u2019s ridden for many of the sport\u2019s biggest teams \u2013\u00a0three seasons at Sky, two at Quick Step, a couple at Cofidis before returning to the former Team Sky (now Ineos Grenadiers), and finally closing his career at Lotto.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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