Maurizio Evangelista - THE MAN AT THE TOP
by Stephen Farrand Procycling UK - Issue 282, June 2021 Maurizio Evangelista was a leading cycling journalist in the 1980s and early 1990s and then created the successful Vitesse communications agency . Now he is the Tour of the Alps race director ; it’s the third and seemingly hardest chapter of his life in the sport. Evangelista wrote for the Corriere dello Sport newspaper, which always loved to compete against bigger rivals La Gazzetta dello Sport . After he created Vitesse, he managed the Saeco media office in its early years and then numerous other clients . Evangelista moved to near Lake Garda a decade ago and became the Trentino/Alps race director, with his son David taking over at Vitesse. “I think a lot of people don’t fully appreciate just how difficult and complex it is to put on a major professional sporting event out on the open road” Evangelista explains. “They can see the results and see the problems when things go wrong but don’t see and understand the hard work to mak