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Adoring Italian fans, turning off social media, and playing FIFA on Mount Teide – Getting to know Giulio Pellizzari, the Giro d'Italia's home star ready to challenge Jonas Vingegaard

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(Image credit: Getty Images) As Cyclingnews sits with Giulio Pellizzari in the sunshine outside Red Bull’s Innsbruck hotel on the eve of the Tour of the Alps, a group of children - autograph hunters - come back three times during our interview. "I am a big fan," one assures him. Five minutes later, another gives him a drawing of a yellow flower with 'danke schön' written beneath it. Everyone seems to love Italy’s cycling champion-in-waiting. The race ends as it started, with young fans clamouring for mementos from the 22-year-old. "Giulio! Giulio! Giulio, per favore !" The cries echo beneath one of Trento’s churches as the race leader prepares to take on the Tour of the Alps’ fifth and final stage. He signs a Red Bull cap and reaches over to put his signature on a green Tour of the Alps flag. It is the race’s decisive day, and he is in a position he has never been in before as a pro cyclist – defending a lead, one of four seconds to Ineos Grenadiers duo Thymen Arensman and Egan Bernal.…

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