Marco Marcato, italian rider of Wanty – Groupe Gobert team, finished second in theClassic Loire Atlantique, a tough UCI 1.1-race which is part of the Coupe de France series.

“I am happy because this proves that I trained well at home in the past two weeks but of course I am disappointed as well. If you ride with a fair chance to win, you want to win it in the end.”