Lidl-Trek have named their Tour de France and Giro Donne line-ups and launched a teaser video of their vivid new racing colors as they rework from Trek-Segafredo to Lidl-Trek for the quickly approaching Grand Excursions.
The US-registered WorldTour crew will reveal their new males’s and girls’s colors on Wednesday forward of the Tour de France Grand Départ in Bilbao. The teaser video suggests the jersey will showcase Lidl’s vivid crimson, yellow and blue colors, with giant sections of colors and even completely different colored legs on the shorts.
The worldwide grocery store chain replaces espresso model Segafredo going ahead and takes the primary title sponsor slot from crew house owners Trek. Their sponsorship is about to be vital and enhance the crew’s finances going ahead. Tao Geoghegan Hart and Italian sprinter Jonathan Milan will reportedly journey for Lidl-Trek in 2024.
Lidl-Trek revealed their Tour de France and Giro Donne line-ups by utilizing a Lidl buying invoice on social media.
New US nationwide champion Quinn Simmons, former world Champion Mads Pedersen, Tour de Suisse winner Mattias Skjelmose are a part of the boys’s crew for the Tour de France that can purpose to win phases and check Skjelmose’s Grand Tour credentials. Additionally within the eight rider line-up are Giulio Ciccone, Jasper Stuyven, Alex Kirsch, Juan Pedro Lopez and Tony Gallopin.
New Italian nationwide champion Elisa Longo Borghini will lead the ladies’s Lidl-Trek crew on the Giro Donne, which begins in Tuscany on Friday. She is joined by Lizzie Deignan, Elynor Bäckstedt, climber Gaia Realini, Lisa Klein, Lauretta Hanson and Shirin van Anrooij.
Longo Borghini will once more put on the Italian Tricolore jersey after taking her fourth street race title. Simmons will showcase his new Stars and Stripes nationwide champion’s jersey on the Tour de France, with Skjelmose profitable the Danish nationwide title.
The 22-year-old Skjelmose has proven his improvement throughout the first a part of 2023. He received the general title on the Tour de Suisse and have become Danish street champion on Sunday.
Juanpe Lopez will even check his Tour de France abilities throughout the mountainous route after sporting the pink jersey on the 2022 Giro d’Italia for ten days. Pedersen received a stage at this 12 months’s Giro d’Italia in Naples and can goal the sprints and rolling phases on the Tour de France alongside Simmons and Stuyven.
Longo Borghini has made the Giro Donne a serious goal earlier than most likely additionally driving the Tour de France Femmes. Realini has emerged as probably the greatest pure climber’s within the ladies’s peloton, whereas Bäckstedt makes her Grand Tour debut at 21 and Deignan continues her return from maternity.
Lidl-Trek for the 2023 Tour de France: Quinn Simmons, Mads Pedersen, Mattias Skjelmose, Giulio Ciccone, Jasper Stuyven, Alex Kirsch, Juan Pedro Lopez and Tony Gallopin.
Lidl-Trek for the 2023 Giro Donne Elisa: Longo-Borghini, Lizzie Deignan, Elynor Bäckstedt, Gaia Realini, Lisa Klein, Lauretta Hanson and Shirin van Anrooij.