He was the Cricket for how he would sprint strongly with his not-so-giant physique. And he is now a... talking Cricket on our microphones: just hours after providing his encouragement and boundless anecdotes in service of training Italian neo-professional riders on November 29, Paolo Bettini answered our questions without fear of being "teased" about some of the hottest and most fertile topics of debate in current cycling. Lack of a World Tour team, the actual spectacle of today compared to yesterday, the cycling market in light of the Uijtdebroeks and Van Gils cases: how will he have responded?

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Besides Bettini, the protagonists of episode 248 of BlaBlaBike are Andrea Raccagni Noviero, Monica Trinca Colonel and (after the news) Roberto Pella

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