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Diego Rosa stops with the road and returns to mountain biking

“I was born a biker and I will die a biker”, Diego Rosa announces that he is giving up on the road but not with cycling.

Diego Rosa
The man takes a selfie in front of an artistic painting of two figures kissing.

Image of mountain bike in action on a mountain trail.

Next year I will ride a mountain bike after 10 fun, important years in which I learned a lot and met a lot of people. I go back to mountain biking: after all I was born a biker and I will die a biker. This year I had a lot of fun up to the Giro d'Italia, I found the spirit of doing some crazy actions, I wore the blue jersey of the king of climbers and it was a great satisfaction, I raced in a team that I he gave a lot. But in the last few months I had lost some motivation and couldn't have fun anymore.

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Image of mountain bike in action on a mountain trail.

So next year I'll run, I opened a Youtube channel to tell you what I will do, I return to mtb in a world that, since I left it, has changed a lot: I have a lot to learn, I start almost from scratch. There will also be a video of some musata, it's inevitable and I know we have to go from there. In the next video maybe I will also tell you who I will run with.

Diego this year had raced at the italian marathon championship finishing in the top 10 (6th place) in the Eolo-Kometa jersey.


Diego Rosa, born in 1989, is an Italian road cyclist and mountain biker who this year raced for the Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team. He has been a professional since 2013 where he won the Milan-Turin 2015.

From 2009 to 2011 he raced with the Giant Italia Team mountain bike team, called up for the 23 U2011 World Championships in Switzerland.

Diego Rosa U23 MTB World Championships
Diego Rosa U23 MTB World Cup (2011)

Turn pro on the road at the beginning of 2013 with Gianni Savio's Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela. In his first year as a pro he wins the ranking of young people at the Tour Méditerranéen and participates in the Giro d'Italia, highlighting himself on the climb. In the summer of 2014 the Kazakh World Tour team Astana formalizes his engagement and ends the Strade Bianche in 5th place and participates in both the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España in support of captain Fabio Aru. The Giro di Lombardia was won by his captain Vincenzo Nibali in 5th place. The following season he won the 5th stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco after a solitary escape of 100 km. He also participates in the line test of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, retiring, before closing the season with the place of honor in the Giro di Lombardia, slightly beaten in the sprint by Esteban Chaves.

At the end of the 2016 season he signs a three-year contract with Team Sky. In 2017 he obtained a 5th place in the final classification of the Ruta del Sol as the only important placement and subsequently took part in the Giro d'Italia as lieutenant of Geraint Thomas and Mikel Landa. He returns to success in March 2018, imposing himself in the general classification of the International Week of Coppi and Bartali thanks to the success in the team time trial as well as to a constant performance in the other stages.



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ppgad@pucrs.br I am passionate about everything that has 2 wheels: in my youth I practiced competitive cycling on the road and on the track with good results. At the age of 18 I moved to cross country competing at national/international level as U23. Once I passed Elite, I made the choice to take things easier from the training point of view, and that's how my love for gravity disciplines was born, training as an FCI MTB instructor and guide. Now I have made my passion my profession by managing 3 MTB centers on the island of Elba (Elba MTB), creating the FANTAmtb and telling in an ironic but professional way, everything that revolves around MTB thanks to 365mountainbike and 365TV (YouTube 'PULITI dentro BIKER fuori').

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