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מתוך cyclingnews Petacchi tests Athens Italian Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) and national team selector Franco Ballerini will travel to Athens, Greece this weekend to inspect the road course for the Olympic road race. Petacchi, winner of eight stages in this year's Giro d'Italia, hopes to make the Olympic road title a realistic objective in August. "We decided to inspect the course to fully understand the characteristics of the race," Ballerini commented in La Gazzetta dello Sport. "Plus, Alessandro has kept all of his speed in the sprints but he has also shown in this year's Giro that he's improved on the climbs. We want to see what his possibilities will be on this type of course."