Les Gets, in the heart of the Haute-Savoie, the heart of the Alps, is already part of the toponymy of honor for GobikThe Sunday of August 28 was a day full of good news in the form of the U23 world title with Simone Avondetto. Simone Avondetto and silver and bronze with David Valero y Luca Braidotin the elite race.
All three are members of teams dressed by GobikThe three of them are members of teams dressed by top-level athletes, who sublimate their work in the best races in the world, competing against true legends of the fat wheels, improving themselves and making those who accompany them improve. All in a morning to be framed in the French Alps.
David Valero's summit
I can't be anything but happy," said David Valero, just after crossing the finish line, "but with a certain bittersweet tasteafter giving so much of myself throughout the race. In the end I lacked some change of pace".
For Valero, the silver medal in Les Gets means closing a magic circle, started just over a year ago, when he stepped onto the podium at the Olympic Games, followed by his victory in a World Cup race and now this joy at the World Championships. The run of successes now looks to the closing of the World Cup, the imminent objective of the biker of the BH Temple Cafés UCC in a few days.
On the starting grid in Les Gets, there were the best specialists in the world in a pool as uncertain as open. The initial development of the race already marked the cards. After a testing lap, David put on the field the character he brings out on the big occasions, taking the lead and setting a pace so selective, that he left the pool in four names, but what names: his own with Luca Braidot, Nino Schurter y Tom Pidcock.
From the beginning, Schurter and Valero already showed superiority, until on the fifth lap, the Spaniard opened the gas with the Swiss on his wheel, while Pidcock, European champion a week ago, showed the problems that left Braidot alone, consolidating third place.
"From the start, I tried to start from the front, watching how people were going and assessing how I was doing. As the race progressed, I felt better. It was a perfect raceIt was a perfect race, giving everything I had in me," said David, with the silver hanging around his neck, a silver medal won in a head-to-head final with Nino Schurter, in which the Swiss rider showed the quality of a ten-time world champion.
For David, 2022 has become "the best of the best".one of my best seasons on a sporting level"while for Luca Braidot it is another step forward for the Friulian biker of the Santa Cruz FSA Pro Teamwinner of two World Cups this year and seventh at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Simone Avondetto, a gold full of patience
Member of the Wilier-Pireli Triestina, Simone Avondetto signed the U23 victory early in the morning in Les Gets, in a race in which his patience prevailed against the initial push of the outgoing champion, the Chilean Martin Vidaurre. It was halfway through the race when Simone took Frenchman Azzaro off the wheel and overtook Vidaurre shortly after, to go solo to a major success.
With the emotion of seeing himself with a world gold medal in his hands, Simone admitted with disbelief that "it was a good race. It was hard at the beginning and I couldn't follow Vidaurre when he attacked. But I saw that he was not very far ahead of us. I started to feel better and I thought 'I have to try it'. I got a little gap and I went flat out until the end".
With Simone's, Gobik adds up to a new gold medal in the MTB world championships, one more piece in a collection of iridescent colors that is beginning to grow strongly in the history of the brand.
