Standings. Camerino 60; Borgo Mogliano (-2) 51; Folgore Castelraimondo 48; Belfortese 42; Elite Tolentino, Montecassiano 40; Argignano 39; Portorecanati 38; Montecosaro 37; Casette d'Ete 33; Real Elpidiense 30; Urbis Salvia (-29) 12. CARVER : Di Bello 14, Scianaro 7, Toti none, Maiolo 3, Vitale, Lucarelli 7, Martino 12, Benincasa none, Galli 22, Pagnanelli 11, Pizziconi none. ATTILA JUNIOR PORTO RECANATI: Mancini ne, Fratoni ne, Gamazo 12, Rapini 9, Caverni 6, Redolf ​​3, Pesce, Cicconi Massi 15, Montanari, Tarquini ne, Ciribeni 17, Filippetti ne. All.: Coen. Notes - Partials: 20-21, 16-19, 19-8, 21-14 the remains of a teenage girl were found near Hotel House a crumbling building largely occupied by recent immigrants which many Italians regard as a den of drugs and violence Did prejudice hamper the search for justice It was raining heavily on 28 March 2018 as Alessandro Albini’s officers were raking over rough ground on the outskirts of an abandoned building The police were looking for stashes of drugs or money because they knew the shack was being used by dealers this might have seemed an unlikely location for a drugs bust Porto Recanati is a small seaside town on Italy’s Adriatic coast pastel-coloured palazzi between palms and maritime pines It’s all very neat: there are often mini-diggers on the sand raking the beach flat as if it were a Japanese garden The rain had washed away the loose soil and what looked like a golf ball was sticking out of the ground Albini’s colleague took a cloth and wiped away the mud so that he could see the thick bone of what appeared to be a femur the town’s vice questore (the deputy chief constable) oversaw the sifting of 15 cubic metres of ground which contained a lot of buried garbage and animal bones The abandoned building was five minutes inland from the sea close to the town’s tiny stadium with its single west stand But it was only a field away from what is possibly the most fascinating and perplexing building in Italy: Hotel House a semi-derelict tower block that has become synonymous there was press speculation that this might be a mass burial site journalists came to lean over the red-and-white tape to shout questions to the forensics crew each 17 stories high and covered by the rusting sequins of satellite dishes but nobody knows how many people live here when large numbers of Bangladeshi and Senegalese people come to the area to work as beach vendors There are only a handful of Italians still living in the block the sewage is backing up and there are holes in the walls and floors on every level Hotel House has been compared to Scampia – the famous Naples estate featured in the film Gomorrah – and the former Olympic village in Turin: high-concept architectural projects that have become dystopian citadels for drug dealers and an Italian and immigrant underclass These are places where honest destitution mixes with criminal wealth and where the Italian state often appears to have lost control completely even posing for a photo opportunity a few years ago at Hotel House Italy’s various law enforcement agencies do attempt to police Hotel House plus multiple stairwells and underground garages finding evidence of criminal activity is almost impossible “By the time we get to the top of one stairwell,” one officer told me after which photos of clingfilmed bricks of hash or torpedo-shaped wraps of heroin or cocaine will be proudly shown off One recent investigation discovered that about €450,000 was being transferred to Bangladesh Afghanistan and Pakistan every month from a wire service on the ground floor of Hotel House Often there were multiple transfers to the same person in one day indicating that it was a restocking exercise The drug trade inside Hotel House is estimated to be worth between €5m and €10m a year – not huge figures but in a building in which poverty and degradation are everywhere few were surprised by the grim discovery of human remains nearby But Hotel House isn’t simply the key to understanding a murder It’s also a way to glimpse how parts of Italy have responded to immigration this rural region half-way down Italy’s east coast reveals how bewildering these changes have been – not just for Italian society but for those hoping to become a part of it Almost every week there’s a major incident at Hotel House Recently these have included a suicide attempt a Moroccan man beaten into a coma on a Saturday night a police bust that turned up 28,000 items of counterfeit clothing The discovery of human remains so close to the building was just the latest in a long line of bad news Despite constant horror stories in the press Hotel House doesn’t feel particularly edgy at first you walk through a shady boulevard of mature lime trees and sunflowers poke their manes above a wheatfield Next to the building is a large car park and car cemetery There is a constant stream of cyclists and pedestrians walking to and from town and as you get closer you hear screams of laughter from children playing and around the corner North Africans occupy plastic chairs a white woman with a grey crew-cut was shouting amiably at Tunisian labourers working to fix some pipes in a trench The air all around smells of grey water and rotting food because the building has been in the hands of a judicially appointed administrator since 2015 Abid and Moustaffa sit in their office gruffly watching the comings and goings but not insignificant: they liaise with the press and police All around the ground floor are notices in Urdu Bengali and Arabic: appeals to raise money to repatriate a corpse or posters asking residents to fork out for repairs You can glimpse faded grandeur in the beige marble flooring a Tuscan glass-blower who has lived here since 2001 but just pass by.” Many apartment doors are posted with repossession orders but others have been prettified with stencils or shells and pieces of driftwood Most of the landings are full of rubbish: dirty mattresses At the end of each corridor is a view that gets more spectacular the higher you go The Adriatic seen from Hotel House Photograph: Supplied by Tobias JonesYou know what floor you’re on by the numbers spray-painted on (or scratched into) the walls There’s a lot of graffiti in English: “fuck this is not the truth” too: “The people who ruined this country wear ties It’s estimated that there are about 50 full-time drug dealers here – buying Not everyone on the higher floors is a criminal but it is like an inverse of Dante’s layers of hell: the higher you go Many doors have been damaged in previous busts There are rugby-ball-sized holes in the walls and floors You can see those white vans far below now Even here there are toddlers playing catch laughing and smiling next to a window hanging on by a single hinge She is fired up about the “potential” of this place an ex-missionary who now repairs electronic goods for residents and gives his homemade jams to kids who help him get his shopping up all those stairs Many of the flats are immaculate inside: the public space is horrific the sea breeze blasting through the empty window frames From here the sea is two-tone: turquoise and almost purple with hundreds of coloured wires spilling out that the rusting fire escape that serves the entire east wing has been locked off Hotel House was given its odd name because its architect was offering purchasers the chance to “live between domestic walls with all the services of a grand hotel” the building made you feel like you were in the Hilton: the reception featured a bronze lift plate The ground floors were filled with fashion and food outlets The flats were all identical – 60 sq metres inside The ones looking out to sea were the most expensive To the west you could enjoy sunsets over the hills and The design was inspired by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier and by the French utopianist Charles Fourier’s notion of a phalanstère an ideal residence for a community of 1,600 people dwarfing the more usual two- and three-storey apartment buildings in town Bergamo and Bologna (a few hundred kilometres away) snapped up the flats as second homes by the sea told me: “We felt like we were the sons of Agnelli [one of Italy’s wealthiest families]” A flat back then cost 12m lire (around £7,000) “it was as if someone had written you a reference The lure of the seaside wasn’t just sunbathing and seafood There were religious and literary attractions to Porto Recanati: the famous Loreto shrine is a short drive inland Outside the main cities of Pescara and Ancona much of Le Marche’s coast used to be bare marshland with long pine forests But in the 1970s many new hotels and high-rises were built offering grid-formation deckchairs to sunbathers But Hotel House was just the wrong side of both When Italy went through a major recession in the late 1980s and early 90s many families with second homes had to sell up Suddenly there was a glut of Hotel House flats on the market One man from the next village came to own 30 of them Residents started to fall behind on their contributions to the spese condominiali – the shared expenses of the block Some slum landlords charged the communal costs to their tenants With increasing numbers of flats in absentee hands residents’ meetings were no longer well-attended Italian law requires a majority of owners’ votes for a building’s budget to be formally approved everyone is exempt from paying the communal fees Soon the maintenance costs could no longer be met many of the original owners of Hotel House’s flats had died and their descendents usually tried to sell up which made the place more of a magnet for the poor Almost all looked for and found work: the men in Ancona’s shipyards or as builders A mosque opened on the ground floor and appointed an imam who was also a great baker Nigerian Christians worshipped in the boiler room Soon there were so many Muslims that the Italian bar-owner would shut for Ramadan Cheap rent wasn’t the only attraction for migrant workers: in high season the beaches were full of holidaymakers keen to buy sunglasses Thus every summer the immigrant population of Hotel House increased exponentially as incoming workers kipped on friends’ or gangmasters’ floors There was now a noticeable criminal element in the block Mismanagement of communal maintenance funds had created a debt of hundreds of thousands of euros The regional government couldn’t intervene and invest in improvements without appearing to subsidise slum landlords and banks with public money the lifts stopped working and weren’t repaired as getting gallons of water up multiple floors is too much effort Drinking water comes from a truck in the car park at which a constant stream of people queue up to refill plastic demijohns and jerrycans The cost of not having functioning lifts is almost worse than the lack of water An old man died last winter because he wanted to catch his breath one night before tackling the steps Many elderly residents are prisoners in their own homes fell eight floors to his death three years ago when he stepped into the shaft to try and fix a lift Some people have told me that he was an honest hardworking man who was trying to tackle drug dealing as to attempt to fix a lift inside an eight-storey drop Today it’s almost inconceivable that a local would buy a flat here but there’s still a regular turnover of immigrants attracted by the dirt-cheap property and the presence of so many compatriots It’s a place of strange speculation: when things are this cheap both the poor and those who exploit them see an opportunity and if you buy-to-let without worrying about paying for repairs or safety equipment your investment could be paid off in 18 months And for as long as everything is in private hands the state is unwilling or unable to intervene Elisabetta Micciarelli is the headmistress of a primary school in Ancona If your child has a birthday party and you don’t invite the foreign child in his class pointing out a cheery seven-year-old running around the corridors “was found wandering alone along the Greek-Albanian border That boy arrived here from Libya on a dinghy with his father.” There are so many immigrant children in the school that it has deliberately become a holistic place of healing and recreation Micciarelli and her staff work almost as much with the families as with their children and the school has a psychologist available to parents “We’re often the only place where they are listened to,” Micciarelli says Si Può Fare (“We can do it”) and runs courses for mothers as well as free after-school courses in music sports and even sailing for the poorest children and had come with their mother to be with their father who had been working in a factory in Camerano Only the oldest child had stayed in Bangladesh Their father seemed to have fallen out with the local Bangladeshi community some said because he had been drinking too much they were isolated and facing immense challenges Because she was put in a class of younger children She was like most girls her age: singing pop songs going for a passeggiata – a stroll – along the city’s boulevards and she was soon like a second mother in the family To say the school went the extra mile is an understatement Mainardi used her knowledge of sign language to communicate with Sajid and translate the Qur’an for him She often invited the siblings to dinner in order Mainardi took Cameyi and her siblings to doctors’ appointments They regularly stayed overnight in her flat The family had been in Italy for five years when things started to go wrong Cameyi’s father was diagnosed with lung cancer and by late 2009 had fallen behind on rent payments One day Cameyi was asked into the headmistress’s office after school Social services had arranged a room for Cameyi her mother and for her two younger siblings Her older brother Asik and her father – who was undergoing chemotherapy that day and “vomiting every three paces” – would be left on the streets Again the teachers pulled out all the stops For a month and half they raised enough money to pay for a hotel room so that Ibrahim and Asik could be with their family “I even told my father’s car mechanic that I needed €50,” Mainardi laughs Mainardi showed me a photo of the new flat that social services eventually found for the family The walls are so grey and black with mould The headmistress says that Cameyi seemed to have pulsioni a word that implies both “instincts” and “sex drive” “I had the idea that she was older than her age,” she remembers Cameyi was also finding her family claustrophobic She told the teachers she wanted to come to all the after-school courses “I went to pick her up for school one day” “and she was sitting there with her two younger siblings looking extremely grumpy.” Like most teenagers Cameyi must have often resented her relatives feeling ashamed or embarrassed by people who seemed to her disabled a desperate Ibrahim came into her office and said that Cameyi hadn’t been home all night Micciarelli accompanied him to the police station and reported the young girl missing Many people feel the investigation wasn’t anything like as thorough as it should have been “It was as if she was some troietta [‘little tart’].” There was nothing like the outcry and publicity there would have been if the missing girl had been a white Italian One investigative lead (which the teachers found ridiculous) was that the family had organised Cameyi’s abduction and repatriation because she was becoming “too emancipated” Micciarelli and Mainardi went through Cameyi’s schoolbooks and found a diary In it were all sorts of love hearts and ti amo (“I love you”) scrawlings Some claimed to have seen Cameyi at the railway station catching a train south towards Porto Recanati and lived in an eighth-floor flat at Hotel House with four others A photograph of the two kissing had been shared on Myspace When police went through Hotel House’s CCTV (which has since stopped working) “She didn’t have the maturity to recognise the danger of a building that would repel you or me,” says Mainardi Investigators obtained a search warrant for Kazi’s flat but when tested it didn’t show a match for Cameyi’s Kazi had gone to hospital for hours on the day she went missing Even more suspicious was his decision suddenly to up sticks: he left Italy to go to Greece When you ask Micciarelli, the headmistress, how Ancona has changed after 30 years of immigration, she says something unexpected: “It hasn’t changed at all. There are just two Anconas now, because all the foreigners are concentrated in certain areas.” Mainardi remained close to Cameyi’s family, who were convinced Cameyi had left home for a better life. Mainardi even became so fascinated by the idealism and dysfunctionality of the immigration system – “something had so clearly gone wrong here” – that she became an external student of the subject at Bologna University. At the end of June this year, three months after the femur was found, confirmation arrived that the human remains from the drug dealer’s abandoned building were those of Cameyi. It was, by then, over eight years since her disappearance. Investigators always talk about speed and momentum, but a few years, in the chaotic life of Hotel House, is like a century. All trace of Kazi is gone, and investigators admit they don’t know where he is. “I always had the sense that everything led to Hotel House,” says Mainardi. But this new proof was “a chilling change of perspective”. She is a cheerful woman by habit, but is angered by the lack of dignity afforded to Cameyi even in death: “That ditch was a general dumping ground for rubbish. That’s what really hurts.” At Hotel House, residents are weary of all the bad press because, they say, outsiders don’t see what really goes on. Most of the fights aren’t examples of gang warfare but just arguments between cricketers from Asia and footballers from Africa about who can play on the makeshift concrete pitch. Punch-ups that have been written up as drug dealers’ turf wars, they’ll tell you, were really over a bike or a woman – just as happens everywhere when men have drunk too much. One of the most interesting aspects of the building is the hopefulness of the Italian residents. They represent about half a percent of Hotel House’s population. They have long given up on the idea of getting back what their flats were once worth – but that, you sense, isn’t the only reason they haven’t moved out. Luca Davide, the porter, told me why he stays on: “Here there’s goodness, and we’ve got to help it emerge, to make the world understand that 30 ethnicities can coexist peacefully.” Although realistic about the building’s problems, Davide is fond of the ethnic diversity. “We could become a beacon of integration. We could have people envy what we’ve created.” The struggles of his neighbours, he says, are his own: “Our interests are complementary, they overlap.” On the 11th floor there’s a retired air force colonel, Alfredo La Rosa, who was born in Libya. The place reminds him of housing estates where he grew up, where people survived with barely anything. “Hotel House”, he told Internazionale magazine recently, “speaks of our future, of the multiethnic society that is coming. This building could be a great opportunity to experiment with forms of coexistence.” Another draw for the remaining Italians is that they, knowing how to make things happen, can improve peoples’ lives very simply. Franca got the mayor to turn a couple of streetlamps around to act as floodlights for the one grass pitch. Enzo bought the chalk for the lines. Franca goes and knocks on doors until 200 people have stumped up €40 each to repair and replace the sewers. Read moreWhen those Italians talk about integration “For true integration,” Enzo the glass-blower says “you have to understand how things work here you have to be able to adapt in order not to be marginalised.” You get the sense that the Italians now see themselves as a tiny you’re also struck by the variety: a Tunisian teenager in a catalogue-clean flat studying fashion hoping to get to the Accademia in Milan; an Italian doctor who holds a surgery on the eighth floor; the Pakistani cricketer who hopes to play for the Italian national team are the wives who you only see once a week when they catch the Thursday bus to market Police know that drug users are still coming from 400km away to score wholesale But the business is still tiny compared to National law enforcement agencies have bigger fish to fry than Hotel House The mayor of Porto Recanati ordered its complete evacuation by December last year if safety measures were not put in place but that deadline passed and people stayed The regional government has lent the building’s administrator €100,000 to renovate the external areas and begin safety work but the loan has irritated law-abiding locals who say it’s a state bailout that rewards illegality The doomsday scenario – in which a fire engulfs the whole building – seems worryingly imaginable almost everyone says: “I’m good here.” Many say benissimo One Senegalese man says to me in thumpy Italian: “It’s not so different to Senegal: the beach when you ask after someone you met last time Given that the police don’t even know precisely who is living at Hotel House it seems far-fetched that they’ll ever find someone who left here seven years ago but the man who knows most about her death will probably never be seen again Follow the long read on Twitter at @gdnlongread, or sign up to the long read weekly email here Mondialsuole Group bankruptcy: now production restarts under new ownership A local entrepreneur bought Mondial Plast plant in Porto Recanati The same fate also befell Mondial Suole production site The third plant in which Mondial Due operated in the coastal municipality has received offers to be bought And it could soon be put up for auction by the bankruptcy receivership The plants of Mondial Suole Group will not remain skeletons They have attracted the interest of local entrepreneurs and will probably all be given a new lease of life the Court of Macerata declared Mondial Suole and Mondial Plast bankrupt The bankruptcy ruling also came for Mondial Due The companies belonged to the same group and operated three industrial buildings The warehouses of Mondial Suole and Mondial Plast were the subject of two auctions called by the bankruptcy receivership. The former Mondial Plast went to a local entrepreneur who restarted production and the auction for the former Mondial Suole plant was also successful. According to Il Resto del Carlino Optimism also filters through for the former Mondial Due factory A local entrepreneur has reportedly submitted an offer to the bankruptcy receivership The auction of this property is also expected to take place in the next few days there is a real possibility that this building too will follow the same path taken by the other two All you need to know about the leather industry ESPERIA: Manca 5, Cabriolu, Giordano 16, Potì 20, Thiam 4, Picciau 13, Locci 10, Maresca 5, Bartolozzi 7, Sanna. ATTILA JUNIOR PORTO RECANATI: Mancini 4, Gamazo 16, Rapini 18, Caverni 20, Redolf ​​black, Pesce 5, Cicconi Massi 2, Montanari 1, Ciribeni 13, Filippetti black. Coach: Coen. Defeat by the skin of their teeth for Attila Porto Recanati, who were overtaken in the final minutes by Esperia Cagliari. The match against the Sardinian team ended 80-79, with Coen's team leading the operations from the tip-off, only to suffer a comeback at home and give in in the final minutes. The match. Si con Te starts strong and in the first period shoots with great percentages: net of absences and defections, Porto Recanati relies on Caverni and Gamazo to go up to 22-27 at 10'. Cagliari, however, does not give up and the match remains balanced: the point by point continues, with Potì and Giordano who reply to Rapini. At half time the match is wide open at 41-44. After 12 days of racing, Filippo Pozzato finally delivered the first Italian victory of the Giro in Porto Recanati. It was also Katusha's second stage win in two days after Evgeni Petrov's win in L'Aquila. With the effects of yesterday's epic stage in the rain no doubt evident in the legs, the riders could have been forgiven for sitting back and taking it easy. And that's more or less what they did until the race exploded into life around 12 kilometres from the line. The finishing circuit around the town of Porto Recanati featured a little hill, the ideal springboard for someone seeking a chance to win the stage. The attacks were inevitable, but the identity of the riders trying to escape was a surprise. In this extraordinary Giro d'Italia, it is clear that the riders cannot let down their guard for a moment. Stefano Garzelli of Acqua & Sapone lifted the pace and a host of big names followed him. With him went Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana), Damiano Cunego (Lampre), Vincenzo Nibali, Ivan Basso (Liquigas), Pozzato, Marco Pinotti (HTC-Columbia), Thomas Voeckler (Bbox Bouygues Telecom), Jerome Pineau (Quick Step) and Michele Scarponi and Alessandro Bisolti (Androni Giocattoli). The group worked well together and caused Saxo Bank and Caisse d'Epargne to panic momentarily as they sought to defend the positions of Richie Porte and David Arroyo, the first two riders overall. The leaders stayed clear to contest the finish. Vinokourov and Basso tried to jump away but were overhauled by Pozzato, obviously the best sprinter in the group, although he was pushed hard to the line by Voeckler. The Italian champion's delight as he crossed the line was obvious - it was his first stage win in the Giro d'Italia. Pozzato said: "I said this morning that I felt well and had good legs. I knew there would be action on that climb. Voeckler, Garzelli, Basso and Nibali started firing. I got on to that, however, I did not think the classification men would make a move after yesterday's stage. The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox! "I grew up watching this race from the side of the road, watching with my dad. To win a stage is truly beautiful, above all with the Italian jersey." With the bunch content to enjoy a day of relative calm, Rick Flens of Rabobank attacked after nine kilometres and quickly got a healthy lead. After 18 kilometres, Yuriy Krivtsov (Ag2r) and Olivier Kaisen (Omega Pharma) set out in pursuit but by then Flens' lead was already growing. At one stage the gap was almost nine minutes. It took Krivtsov and Kaisen until the 40 kilometre mark to bridge across to them. The trio then worked well together but were always doomed once they reached the finishing circuit.  Francesco Failli of Acqua & Sapone was first to try his luck from the bunch, then Michele Scarponi of Androni Giocattoli had a go before Garzelli started his move which enlivened the finale. Although Vinokourov, Nibali, Basso and co gained a few seconds over Sastre, Wiggins and Evans it was an indication that this race is refusing to settle down, with the Monte Zoncolan looming on Sunday. Australia's Richie Porte kept the pink jersey for a second successive day and should be safe until at least Saturday's stage, which goes over the Monte Grappa climb. RESULTSStage 12: Citta Sant-Angelo - Porto Recanati 1. Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Katusha in 5-15-50 2. Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom 3. Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 4. Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 8. Michele Scarponi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli all same time Overall classification after stage 121. Richie Porte (Aus) Saxo Bank in 50-45-15 2. David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne at 1-42 3. Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Liquigas at 1-56 4. Xavier Tondo (Spa) Cervélo at 3-54 8. Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervélo at 7-09 Filippo Pozzato brings the escape group home Giro d'Italia 2010: Cycling Weekly's coverage index 2010 Giro d'Italia coverage in association with Zipvit Thank you for reading 20 articles this month* Join now for unlimited access Enjoy your first month for just £1 / $1 / €1 *Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription Try first month for just £1 / $1 / €1 Founded in 1891, Cycling Weekly and its team of expert journalists brings cyclists in-depth reviews, extensive coverage of both professional and domestic racing, as well as fitness advice and 'brew a cuppa and put your feet up' features. Cycling Weekly serves its audience across a range of platforms, from good old-fashioned print to online journalism, and video. Richie Porte's had his dream winning the Giro d'Italia's pink jersey confirmed this morning when he turned on his mobile phone to read a message of congratulations from the Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett. The 25-year-old of team Saxo Bank won the leader's jersey yesterday after forming part of a mega-escape. He suffered over the 262 kilometres, through the rain and cold, but got the prize. Today, he enjoyed it, riding up the costal roads of eastern Italy, under sunshine. "I heard my name a few times, it is quite humbling for a guy from a little guy from Tasmania," he told Cycling Weekly. "It was a good day." He called a pee break a couple of times during the stage, his right as new race leader. It also helped him shake his nervousness and pass the early hours, when he was still feeling uneasy from this morning's diarrhoea. The flat, 208-kilometre stage from Città Sant'Angelo to Porto Recanati had no affect on his overall lead. Filippo Pozzato won in his Italian championship jersey and Porte, in pink, finished the stage in 25th. "It was beautiful day, but it bloody hurt. I think we were all in the same boat, suffering after yesterday." The announcer called Porte on the podium to award him his second pink jersey. He made a joke about 'Porte' and 'Porto' Recanati, and the Italians loved it. They cheered and applauded him as one of their own. Porte understood the joke, he speaks a little Italian from his time living in Monsummano Terme as an amateur racer. "They call the Tour de France the biggest race, but the Giro d'Italia is the most beautiful race in the world," continued Porte. "I am just an average fellow from Australia, leading the most beautiful bike race in the world." He should easily lead the race through tomorrow's stage, but this weekend will be his first test as a Grand Tour leader. The high mountains stages start with Saturday's stage to Asolo and continue with the race's second mountain-top finish on Sunday, the Monte Zoncolan. If Porte survives, he will enjoy a well-earned rest day in San Vigilio di Marebbe and probably get another message from Bartlett. Cycling Weekly and its team of expert journalists brings cyclists in-depth reviews extensive coverage of both professional and domestic racing as well as fitness advice and 'brew a cuppa and put your feet up' features Cycling Weekly serves its audience across a range of platforms from good old-fashioned print to online journalism "We were physically exhausted," explains coach Coen, "and above all we paid for the heavy absences of Mancini, Montanari and Redolf, who was suffering from a virus and had vomiting attacks the night before the match. And all this was added to a week in which we trained sometimes with eight players and other times even with six. We have to be realistic: it was already hard to win, let alone with these difficulties." The coach has some complaints about the refereeing: "You can't send two referees from Rome when you face a team from the capital, as happened in the last match, given that afterwards you witness some embarrassing theatrics on the pitch. Probably whoever appointed them was distracted, because it was a choice that shouldn't have been made regardless". Camerino-San Claudio: "Camerino wants to finish well and will not give discounts, it will be tough for San Claudio but a draw could also come out: 1X". Ete-Argignano Houses: "The guests need to get a couple of points to feel safe but they have their last match at home where they have always done very well, the locals need points and could secure the victory: 1". Elite Tolentino-Belfortese: "A race with a view to the playoffs, even if then we have to do the math by checking the gap from second place: for the Elite it's the last train and 1X could get the better of it". Thunderbolt Castelraimondo-Real Elpidiense: "We are certain of third place but today we have a complicated match against an opponent who needs points, and then we have to be careful about the restart after the break". Montecassiano-Borgo Mogliano: "Another delicate match: Mogliano wants to maintain second place and has the potential: X2". Montecosaro-Potenza Picena: "Montecosaro is in the playout zone while their opponents are fighting for the playoffs, even if fifth place could not guarantee access to the promotion play-offs, in any case it will be a hard-fought match with the guests as favourites: 2". Passatempese-Urbis Salvia: "Urbis Salvia has nothing more to ask of the championship while the home team needs a few points to protect themselves from surprises: 1". Portorecanati-Montemilone Pollenza: "Both must get themselves out of an uncomfortable situation: Porto Recanati is playing at home, is doing well and will give its all: 1".