Franzoi has hopes

Italian cyclo-cross champion Enrico Franzoi (Lampre-Caffita) will be one of the outside favourites for this Sunday's Elite Men's cyclo-cross World Championships in St. Wendel, Germany. Altogether, it will be Franzoi's sixth World's, taking into account his participation in the Road World's in Zolder in 2002.

Franzoi already has an U23 World Championship to his name after winning in Monopoli in 2003. "I remember the joy and the emotions at this particular race," he recalled. "Only once I got onto the podium did I really start to realise what I had achieved, winning the World Champ's is an unbelievable satisfaction, which seems to repay all the sacrifices paid in the past."

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