In 2014, Francesco Chicchi will continue to ride in the yellow colours of Luca Scinto's team. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport¸ the Italian sprinter has renewed his contract with the Italian team which has been known as Vini Fantini and now  goes under the name of YellowFluo.

Francesco Chicchi was one of the star riders on the Vini Fantini team in 2013 and the Italian will continue in that role in 2014. La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that he has renewed his contract with the team that is now known as YellowFluo.

Chicchi is known as a pure sprinter with an incredible top speed but he has often struggled to overcome even smaller climbs and to handle the battle for position. He made a name for himself when he won the U23 world championships on the flat course in Zolder in 2002 and has raced for some of the sport's major teams like Fassa Bortolo, Quick Step and Liquigas in the past decade.

While he has taken numerous wins for his teams and beaten some of the fastest sprinters in the world, his wins have mostly been taken in smaller races. His stage win in the 2008 Volta a Catalunya and the 2009 Tour Down Under are his only wins in ProTour/WorldTour events and he has mostly played the role of secondary sprinter in his teams.

Prior to the 2013 season, he stepped down a level as he took over the role as lead sprinter on the Vini Fantini team. While he failed to make much of an impact in the Giro d'Italia, he added four wins to his palmares: two stages of the Tour de Langkawi and the Latvian one-day races Riga-Jurmala Grand Prix and Jurmala Grand Prix.

In 2014, he will be back in the yellow colours of his Italian team which has survived the doping cases of Danilo Di Luca and Mauro Santambrogio and will continue under a new name in 2014. Matteo Rabottini, Daniele Colli, Mauro Finetto and Rafael Andriato have already been confirmed for the coming season and yesterday the team announced the signing of 22-year-old Samuele Conti.