Lampre for the nationals

The Lampre- Caffita team will also be strongly represented in its home national championships, the 259.4km race in Montesilvano, Pescara, Italy on Sunday. Twelve Lampre-Caffita riders will line up for the coveted jersey of Italian national road champion: -Alessandro Ballan; Giosuè Bonomi; GianLuca Bortolami; Salvatore Commesso; Giuliano Figueras; Enrico Franzoi; Marco Marzano; Eddy Mazzoleni; Daniele Righi; Gilberto Simoni; Alessandro Spezialetti; and Andrea Tonti.

Alessandro Ballan and Enrico Franzoi will also compete in today's Italian national time trial championships from Tortoreto to Tortoreto Lungomare.

The team's international riders will be competing in their respective national championships too, namely: Sylvester Szmyd - Polish TT and road championships; Oleksandr Kvachuk - Ukrainian TT and road championships; Juan Fuentes Angullo - Spanish road championship; Gerrit Glomser and Andreas Matzbacher - Austrian road championship; David Loosli - Swiss road championship; and Gorazd Stangelj - Slovenian road championship.