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The Italian World Cup alpine ski racer will race the 20th Granfondo Gimondi \u2013 Bianchi, scheduled Sunday May 15th in Bergamo<\/em><\/p>\n His main passion is speed, in challenging the toughest slopes of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup<\/strong> and beyond. Mattia Casse<\/strong> is a member of the Italian alpine ski national team, racing in the greatest speed events of the World Cup. The father of the 26-year-old from Oulx (Piemont, Northern Italy), Alessandro Casse<\/strong>, was a superstar of the speed disciplines himself, with two World Titles and a World Record to his name. <\/p>\n Grown up between slopes and snow, Casse will face a different challenge in Bergamo on Sunday May 15th, when he will tackle the ascents of the 20th Granfondo Felice Gimondi – Bianchi<\/strong>, the popular granfondo event organized by Giuseppe Manenti<\/strong>\u2019s G.M. Sport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cCycling is one of my passions, I ride as preparation to the first pre-seasonal training sessions, and since I now live in Bergamo, I seize the opportunity to be at the start of a race like this<\/em>\u201d, Casse said. – \u201cOn Sunday, I will participate in my second GF Gimondi with the goal of finishing the medium route in less than three hours. Last year, I started too quickly and ended up struggling on the Selvino climb. Sunday\u2019s strategy will be to find a steady pace for the early going with the ambition of finishing up strong<\/em>.”<\/p>\n The 2010 Downhill Junior World Champion is a real lover of sports in general, even though.ski obviousoy occupies most of his time. \u201cI like to watch cycling on TV. Nibali is a great champion, an icon for Italian cycling, but I hope some new Italian prospects eill also flourish soon on the international scale<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n After an intensive preparation with cycling, the Italian athlete will fly to South America for the pre-seasonal training camp. \u201cMy goal is to improve race by race. Last year, I grazed the podium in Beaver Creek (USA) claiming the fourth place. I will need to put my very best in every race to pursue consistency and be closer to the top men in the discipline<\/em>\u201d, Casse concluded.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Italian World Cup alpine ski racer will race the 20th Granfondo Gimondi \u2013 Bianchi, scheduled Sunday May 15th in Bergamo His main passion is speed, in challenging the toughest slopes of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup and beyond. Mattia Casse is a member of the Italian alpine ski national team, racing in the greatest speed events of the World Cup. The father of the 26-year-old from Oulx (Piemont, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicati-stampa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}