Cycling Academy with champion Mario Cipollini at Forte Village Resort, Sardinia

This summer Forte Village Resort, Sardinia launch a new cycling academy as part of their popular Sport Academies, offering guests an exclusive opportunity to receive coaching from top professional Mario Cipollini.  

The Cycling Academy will be taught by Mario Cipollini himself,multi-winner of the Giro d'Italia amongst many international titles and later in the season Max Lelli, team trial winner of the Tour de France in 1993 and Team Tinkoff, the all-professional Russian cycling team who compete in the UCI World Cycling Tour.

The new academy offers guests aged 18 and over the opportunity to ride along some of the island's most spectacular roads in southern Sardinia in the company of the best.

Dates available:

• Mario Cipollini 13th – 26th June 2015
• Team Tinkoff 13th – 19th September 2015
• Max Lelli 20th – 26th September 2015

Alongside the academy, guests can dine in the new healthy restaurant 'Spice for Life' using the medical benefits of spices as a basis for the menu or any of the resort's 21 restaurants including a dedicated children's restaurant. Families can relax by the white sandy beach and numerous pools, or experience the new Acquaforte Spa and its new sports medical centre.

Forte Village Resort, Sardinia, costs from £428 (€556) per night based on two adults sharing on a half board basis (breakfast and dinner, beverages excluded). Price for Sports Academies start from £292 (400 euros) per person for 5 days and includes kit. Cycling Academy costs from £728 (1000 euros per person) for 5 days. For reservations please visit www.fortevillage.com, email holiday@fortevillage.comor call +39 070 921 8818. 

For press information please contact Chloe Wallace or Beatrice Barbato at Ann Scott Associates on
020 78239988 chloe@annscott.co.uk or beatrice@annscott.co.uk