"Today was a really complicated day. I'm not yet able to tell you what happened, but I wanted to reassure you that everything went well, with some changes to the route. We're not giving up an inch." With his face strained from the operation and his fatigue visible, Mario Cipollini, a former cycling champion, reassures his fans on social media about the operation that took place today at the Torrette Hospital in Ancona, in the arrhythmology and cardiology clinic headed by Professor Antonio Dello Russo.

Yesterday, Cipollini announced his hospitalization on his social media accounts. " Here we go again, or rather, we're back again. My heart is still acting up a bit, " he said. "Last year, I had my last operation. Now I have a small recorder near my heart that's monitoring my cardiac status . The recorder said something went wrong during this period. They called me to order, saying they'd have to try to re-stimulate certain situations with probes to see if anything harmful is triggered. We could even talk about a subcutaneous defibrillator; I'm in the hands of highly trained people."

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