{"id":16056,"date":"2021-09-05T10:26:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T08:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btc.si\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:28:17","slug":"summer-of-medals-for-ale-btc-ljubljana-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.btc.si\/en\/news\/2021\/09\/summer-of-medals-for-ale-btc-ljubljana-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Medals for Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana Cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>This summer, we were treated to outstanding results of the Italian and Slovene cycling team Al<\/strong><strong>\u00e9<\/strong><strong> BTC Ljubljana. The team\u2019s cyclists were victorious in team events as well as in individual races, while the most talked about were the races at the Olympics. Four members of Al<\/strong><strong>\u00e9<\/strong><strong> BTC Ljubljana competed for Olympic medals in Tokyo, among them also the Slovenian cyclist Eugenia Bujak. The biggest success story was written by the Swiss Marlen Reusser who won the silver medal in the time trial event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though most of the attention of the cycling world was given to the Olympic events, the Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana cyclists achieved outstanding results also in other summer races. They started July by ranking third as a team in a time trial first stage of women\u2019s race Giro d\u2019Italia. In the general classification of women\u2019s Giro \u2013 regarded as one of the most important races on the women\u2019s racing calendar \u2013 two Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana cyclists \u2013 Mavi Garcia and Tatiana Guderzo \u2013 finished in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of August, part of the team competed in the WorldTour race in Norway \u2013 Ladies Tour of Norway, where Mavi Garcia came in third in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> stage. At the same time, Marta Bastianelli placed 1<sup>st<\/sup> in the La P\u00e9rigord Ladies and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in La Picto \u2013 Charentaise (both races were in France).<\/p>\n<p>At the end of August, the spotlight once again shone bright on Marlen Reusser, as she won the Simac Ladies Tour Time Trial event in the Netherlands and ranked second in the general classification. Only a few days later, she jumped on the podium again, this time in Spain, where she was first in the first stage and second in the second stage of the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta \u2013 a race where in the end she finished second in the general classification. The Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana team is currently ranked 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the UCI rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana was established as two teams \u2013 Al\u00e9 Cipollini and BTC City Ljubljana \u2013 were joined. Their first season was in 2020 and although this is still a young team, it combines excellent and experienced cyclists who are no strangers to the biggest cycling races, in which they have on many occasions proved that they belong to the top class of women\u2019s cycling. They prove this also as members of the Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana team, which in its second season has been putting in outstanding results, thereby exciting its fans as well as its loyal supporters.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, we were treated to outstanding results of the Italian and Slovene cycling team Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Summer of Medals for Al\u00e9 BTC Ljubljana Cyclists - BTC d.d.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ko je Jo\u017ee Mermal, danes predsednik uprave BTC iz opustelih carinskih skladi\u0161\u010d \u017eelel narediti \u00bbmalo mesto velikih nakupov\u00ab, je marsikje po\u017eel le posmeh. 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