Monte Paschi Eroica, Italy

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8 Mar

Eroica profile The gnarly, one-day Monte Paschi Eroica starts in Gaiole and includes seven sectors of “sterrati” - gravel roads - before it ends 180 km later in Siena. The event is organized by RCS Sport–the same folks who bring you the Giro and Milan-San Remo–and gets its name from the Italian word for heroic - eroica.

The theory behind this unusually challenging race was to put on a hard core, one day race with brutal, classic “strade bianche” or white gravel roads sectors. Let our heroes ride!

Slipstream squad
Magnus Backstedt
Steven Cozza
Michael Friedman
Will Frischkorn
Ryder Hesjedal
Martijn Maaskant
Kilian Patour
Chris Sutton

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7 Responses for "Monte Paschi Eroica, Italy"

Backstedt on for Eroica this Saturday! March 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm 1
[…] of the sport when he heads to Gaiole, Italy on Saturday, March 8 to compete in the gnarly, one-day Monte Paschi Eroica only five weeks after breaking his right clavicle in […]
Macklin March 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm 2
This is an awesome race
hope for some good results from the argyle armada
Bert March 4th, 2008 at 7:01 am 3
Hi Magnus, welkom back in the peloton. Good luck in the race. We will follow you closely.
Chris March 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am 4
could a former mtb’er have an edge in this race? Canadian fans of Ryder’s certainly hope so!
Meatball’s Roubaix Recon *required classics reading* March 6th, 2008 at 7:05 pm 5
[…] team camper after just being picked up from the airport in Pisa, Italy. We are on our way to race Eroica, a relatively new but historic event in southern Italy. I just came from northern France where some […]
VSJarabek March 7th, 2008 at 1:53 am 6
Staying with you all the way, Good Luck Ryder.
Wayne March 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am 7
TEAM ARGYLE,

Kick some ass for the old US of A!