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In the classics of all classics in Paris-Roubaix, he finished fifth, became an Italian champion in time and in the same discipline he finished sixth in the championship the world in Bergen.

All in just twenty-three years.

But he danced most of the Spanish Vuelta to greatly help Chris Froom to his premiere triumph. “Unbelievably impressive. Amazing work. I was excited about it. ”

It was all the words Froom told the Italian young man during a three-week martyria across Spain.

At the beginning of the race, it was just the Tractor that Moscon for his the amazingly powerful engine nicknames who climbs the legs of his rivals and often his leader as well.But remember how Froome himself had to ask him to slow somewhat during the third Andorra stage if he does not want to ruin his. “It’s the first time we go together and we’re still looking for the right pace , “Then smiled at the goal of Moscon. “So far I feel good, but we’re in the first week, so we’ll see what it looks like in Sierra Nevada.” It looked great, in the second and third week he did not, but in the penultimate stage he climbed to England’s thirteenth fastest!

After a successful spring with him, the Sky team counted as a rider for the spring classics. After his performance at Vuelta, team leader Dave Brailsford thinks Moscona will also use the Tour with Chris Froom.

“I do not know what type of rider I am.But I would like to prepare for the classics next year and then for Tour. That would be a great experience, “says Moscon, who lasts last Sunday in the last Cycling Monument of the season – at the Lombardy race in third place. But his all-time season is overwhelming the problems he faced during the race.

And there were not enough of them.

At the race around Romandia he racially insulted Kévin Reza from the FDJ, which his teammate Sebastian Reichenbach drew on Twitter. “I am shocked that they are still such stupid men who use racist motifs in the peloton.”

He did not name it, it was clear he was talking about Moscon.

So he got a six-week stopwatch and a written warning.

“Gianni realizes he’s been behaving badly, and he knows how serious this incident is about Sky. He apologized to Kevin right after the stage, as well as the next morning, and the apology was accepted. He knows that his behavior was unforgivable, and if it were repeated, it could be a place in the team, “said the British stables.

When Moscon returned to Route du Sud, how pure conscience.

“I did not kill anyone and it was not the way it was presented.I did not want to come back, “he told the reporters.

For five months he was calm before another charge came.

Public enemy number 1

Last Tuesday, Italy was one of the last of this year’s classics – Tre Valli Varesine. Moscon was the ninth, but more than another of his great performances was the fall of Sebastien Reichenbach.

The 28-year-old Swiss fell off the Motta Rosa exit after 75 kilometers of race, broke his elbow, had surgery and the season ended for him .

Right after the race he said he had a fight with one cyclist, he did not say but with whom.It was done by the FDJ team, who immediately showed it to Italy.

“The fall was caused by the dangerous behavior of one of the rivals, Gianni Moscono,” wrote the French team on Twitter. Reichenbach spoke.

“I file a complaint against Gianni Moscon because he literally sent me to the ground,” he told the Swiss newspaper Le Nouvelliste. “It was deliberate, and a few bikers who were close at that time were willing to testify.If we went faster, it could be far worse than a broken elbow. ”

The Swiss then really filed an official complaint about the behavior of Sky cyclist with the Italian police and the International Cycling Union.

the reward for his spring statement on Twitter, which Moscon refuses.

“Nothing is true, it has nothing to do with me. We drove the wrong way and Reichenbach slipped his hands out of the handlebars. “I never talked to him in his life and did not say anything to him,” he told himself, and then added to his social network a message that the Swiss would soon recover.

But Reichenbach’s charge does not take lightly.

“He destroyed my name and I’m ready to defend myself.The truth is coming out and I will not let it go, “he says firmly.

Previously, in mid-September, he was expelled from a mass race at the Bergen World Championship after holding an Italian team car after returning to fall back to the race.

But then the Italian coach Davide Cassani took the whole blame.

“It was my fault. I gave him the bottle and told him to hold her, “said a 56-year-old coach. “I know I should not have done this, and I’m sorry for all of this because it has shown Italy in the bad light. But it should not affect Gianni’s image.It does not deserve it, it’s a good guy. ”

This honest boy is currently waiting for a trial, and perhaps a subsequent sentence for several months.

So far, a scapegoat.

However, in the few months that are part of a professional peloton, he has built up almost a mafia reputation, and the French newspaper L’Équipe called him “Public Enemy Number 1”

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