The brand new EF Training-Cannondale have confirmed their 15-rider roster for the 2024 season with a few of the greatest names: Alison Jackson, Veronica Ewers, Kristen Faulkner and Lotta Henttala main the way in which.
Normal supervisor Esra Tromp stated the workforce units themselves aside due to their potential to ‘suppose outdoors the field’ with a no-fear method to racing.
“What all of them have in frequent is they don’t seem to be scared. Our riders should not scared to race actually aggressively. Our riders need to race aggressively. They dare to suppose outdoors of the field,” Tromp stated.
“That’s one in all our greatest strengths as a workforce. We have to win races and never be scared to lose races. Our riders need to overcome their perceived limits. These are some daring riders.”
EF Professional Biking introduced in June that they might begin a brand new girls’s workforce, racing as EF Training-Cannondale, and that it could start as a Continental girls’s workforce in 2024.
Since that announcement, the workforce signed 14 riders: Megan Armitage, Letizia Borghesi, Kim Cadzow, Clara Emond, Veronica Ewers, Kristen Faulkner, Lotta Henttala, Alison Jackson, Nina Kessler, Clara Koppenburg, Coryn Labecki, Noemi Rüegg, Elizabeth Stannard and Magdeleine Vallieres. The fifteenth rider to signal with the workforce was Natalie Quinn.
“The very first thing we did was say, ‘What’s vital to us as a workforce?’ and that was our place to begin,” Tromp stated of her method to signing every rider.
“We need to be seen in races, and we need to be energetic within the remaining kilometres of a race, so so as to try this, you want skilled riders who’re bodily able to using and racing within the remaining.
“That was the primary field we wished to test. That’s what riders like Alison Jackson and Veronica Ewers and Letizia Borghesi deliver.”
Tromp stated she additionally took a long-term method when deciding on every rider and thought of the way forward for the workforce in years to come back. Different elements that went into constructing the roster had been riders’ characters and the way nicely the workforce would work collectively.
“The subsequent query is, ‘how can we construct a workforce for the longer term?’ Not just for subsequent 12 months, but additionally for the years after that. We now have a whole lot of younger expertise on the workforce like Megan Armitage and Clara Emond, who’re nonetheless new to the peloton and nonetheless creating,” Tromp stated.
“Then you definately seek for the perfect mixture of characters and personalities. The personalities want to have the ability to work collectively. We now have a variety of personalities. We now have introverts, extroverts, and individuals who fall in between. It’s a very nice combine.”
She said that the workforce’s fundamental objective is to construct visibility within the races and design a calendar that can make sure the workforce succeeds, that means they may not be in any respect the races.
“We’ll use our strengths, and we’ll suppose somewhat bit outdoors the field. After all, there are precedence races which can be vital to us as a workforce, races just like the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix, having a former winner on the workforce, and we’ll method these races like another – what do we have to do to win? That’s our fundamental objective, to win races.”
EF Training-Cannondale roster for 2024: Megan Armitage, Letizia Borghesi, Kim Cadzow, Clara Emond, Veronica Ewers, Kristen Faulkner, Lotta Henntala, Alison Jackson, Nina Kessler, Clara Koppenburg, Coryn Labecki, Natalie Quinn, Noemi Ruegg, Lizzie Stannard and Magdeleine Vallieres.
