Red Hook Crit - An Italian Conquered Brooklyn
He was one of the big men, Ivan Ravaioli, literally. In Brooklyn for the first stage of Rockstar Red Hook Crit 2015, he came to win it. And he won it. By half a wheel, at photo-finish, but he won it. Lining up the Spaniard Luis Junquera San Millan and the Mexican Raul Torres Pagaza on this pier street, very technical circuit – 1.25 km (0,78 miles) to be repeated 24 times for a total of 30 km (18,6 miles) for men and 18 times for a total of 22,5 km (14 miles) for women. Luckily, as a 34 year-old former road pro who ten years ago rode Giro d’Italia (Tour of Italy) and monument one-day classic Milano-Sanremo, he had no specific experience to beat fixed gear track bike fanatics. The female race was dominated by the Spanish Ainara Elbusto Artega, first in 2014 in Barcelona and second in Milan and winner of the last Championship Series. She sprinted over the French Fleur Faure, at her very first U.S. appearance, and veteran Kacey Manderfield Lloyd, winner of first edition in 2008, who...