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So @eliaviviani had himself A DAY at the Euros 🤩
Seventh place in the road race this morning. Then in the evening… Gold on the track in the Elimination 👏🤯 #EuroTrack22 🥇 pic.twitter.com/26hO3sG9xy
— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) August 14, 2022
The next time you wake up on a Sunday morning, your legs sore from the previous day’s heavy mileage, and think, ‘I can miss today’s group ride, it’ll be fine’, just take a deep breath and whisper to yourself: WWVD (What Would Viviani Do?).
Because Elia Viviani scoffs at the need for rest and recovery.
It’s safe to say that the 33-year-old Italian made the most of his busy schedule at the European Championships yesterday.
Between 10.30am and 3.00pm, the Ineos Grenadiers rider was representing his country in the 208km-long Euros road race, where he finished a very respectable seventh in the bunch sprint behind Dutch winner Fabio Jakobsen (wearing a sacrilegiously light orange skinsuit). In true Italian-team-at-a-major-championships fashion, Italy’s other designated sprinter, Alberto Dainese, was four places behind his team-mate in eleventh.
Sapevamo che per provare a vincere bisognava fare tutto perfetto, ci abbiamo provato, come sempre! Il 7 posto poi è quello che le mie gambe potevano fare, niente di più. Grazie ragazzi e grazie Italia @Federciclismo pic.twitter.com/C4s0vTmILL
— Elia Viviani (@eliaviviani) August 14, 2022
After the road race, Viviani tweeted that seventh was all “my legs could do, nothing more”. Turns out he was fibbing…
In the five hours following the conclusion of the over four and a half hours-long road race, Viviani had grabbed a bite to eat, put his feet up with a good book (I imagine), and then, by 8pm, donned the rainbow bands of world champion and took to the Munich boards for the Elimination Race… which he duly won, seeing off Germany’s Theo Reinhardt with a blistering acceleration.
Who else but Elia Viviani!? 🥇
The Italian eases to gold in the men’s Elimination race 🇮🇹@eliaviviani | #Munich2022 pic.twitter.com/zPrEhQZ75b
— Eurosport (@eurosport) August 14, 2022
Easy, eh?
Irish rider Sam Bennett, who finished fifth in the road race (so knew just how much it took out of the Italian) was one of the many in awe at Viviani’s powers of recovery:
This is insane!💪🏻🔥 https://t.co/xiA2iycyXk
— Sam Bennett (@Sammmy_Be) August 14, 2022
Just finding out about Elia Viviani’s reasonably tiring day yesterday and my mind is 🤯- what an amazing achievement!
— Ned 🚲 Boulting (@nedboulting) August 15, 2022
Chris Boardman at the start: “I can’t see Viviani lasting long”. 😂
— L (@LessL57) August 14, 2022
So, when you’re next staring at the turbo trainer, contemplating whether you need that extra day of training, just say to yourself: ‘What would Viviani do?’
I’m sure there’s a market for half-rainbow stripes, half-Tricolore wristbands somewhere…
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