At the entrance of Fidenza Village, the vehicles of Bepink/Imatra/Bongioanni are parked, and on the team cars, Officine Mattio bicycles are positioned, with which the team will face the 2025 season. The 15 athletes smile happily at the photographers, showcasing their racing jerseys. It's Monday, two days ago the team raced the Milano/Sanremo Women, and in a couple of days they will depart for Belgium. But today is their day, the day when athletes, managers, staff, and partner companies of Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni present themselves to the public.

Photographs, videos, interviews: it's all joyful excitement. One of those festive days experienced in all families. Yes, because Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni is truly a big family. Walter Zini has an attentive look, together with his sister Emanuela (team president), Sigrid Corneo, and all collaborators, taking care of details, following and advising.

In the gaze of the experienced Lombard technician, we also glimpse pride and emotion for the official launch of Bepink's fourteenth season. "Indeed, there are many emotions today, we have the representatives of the companies who have embraced our project, and we are officially launching the 2025 season" Walter Zini says into the microphone of tuttobiciweb.

The sporting year of the team based in Lombardy has already started a few weeks ago, and Zini analyzes the first seasonal performances of his "girls" as follows: "I am satisfied, we have had good performances and above all I have seen the growth of the girls, which gives confidence for the continuation of the season".

Specifically, the Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni technician applauds the performances of his girls at the UAE Tour, where Linda Laporta animated the first stage with a breakaway and the twenty-year-old Gaia Segato, new to the team this year, finished sixth in the young riders' classification. "Gaia is very young, she still needs to gain experience, and the echelon stage affected her, but I am happy with what she did, especially in the stage finishing at Jebel Hafeet where she showed her value. In every race, she is proving to learn and grow, we must wait and consolidate in the future".

Developing athletes calmly is one of the founding values of Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni, and it's the message that Walter Zini repeatedly launches throughout the day: "In recent years, our choice has been to work with a group of young girls to help them grow without rushing, and this choice is proving us right". He then adds: "Cycling, especially in the last ten years, has undergone a very important evolution. Today, cycling, both men's and women's, is exasperated. The advent of the World Tour has increased pressure, and there are athletes who are not ready, who cannot bear this pressure and after two or three years at a high level, they take a break from activity. We want to develop our athletes and give them experience".

Walter drove the team car at the Milano/Sanremo Women on Saturday and gives us an assessment of his athletes' performance: "Unfortunately, the crash that occurred three kilometers before the Cipressa conditioned the race, the peloton broke up, and the speed was then extremely high, and our athletes who were left behind could not catch up, otherwise we would have had two athletes in the first group".

The former cyclist and Lombard manager, with thirty years of experience in women's cycling, spoke about the importance of the return of Sanremo to the women's calendar: "Races like Sanremo are extremely important for the women's movement. They provide visibility, and a good result in races with such prestige remains forever in an athlete's career. As a sports director, I had already experienced the five previous editions, and even then it was an important race. I am convinced that it will return to being one of the five most important races. A Monument, as they say in men's cycling. We've seen it is raced 'with a knife between the teeth' by all athletes. The bar in our movement is rising more and more, averages are increasing, and things are changing technically, which is attracting more and more people to women's cycling".

The conversation with Zini continues looking to the future, to the upcoming commitments of the Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni team: "Thanks to the good results of last season, we have managed to get several invitations. We will participate in several races in the North: Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs. Belgium, as is known, is the university of cycling, and the races where our younger athletes can learn everything they need for their growth and future. We ask all our athletes to face these competitions with courage and maximum determination". May will then be the month of Spain, with the "BePink girls" engaged in all World Tour races on Iberian soil.

"We have a packed schedule of commitments, very often we will face double activities. Perhaps a new athlete will also arrive. The hope is to do well and obtain satisfactions to be shared with fans and the companies that support our team", Walter emphasizes before saying goodbye.

Soon Andrea Berton will call him and the BePink athletes to the stage of the magnificent Girolamo Magnani Theater, in the center of Fidenza. It will be there, in the presence of institutional representatives, Partner companies, and also the National Team Coach Marco Velo, that the curtain will officially rise on the 2025 of Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni.