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In a reset of the Ladies’s WorldTeams, the UCI have awarded 15 new licences for the 2024-2025 seasons, with AG Insurance coverage-Soudal and Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking shifting as much as the highest tier for the primary time.
This season was the top of the first-ever promotion/relegation cycle for the Ladies’s WorldTour, and there have been 16 candidates for 15 Ladies’s WorldTour licences obtainable, with Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi lacking out.
It’s the first season that the ladies’s groups face a relegation system as the game’s governing physique launched a brand new ‘sporting’ requirement, which provides collectively every group’s UCI factors throughout the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
This new factors requirement is considered alongside the opposite 4 standards: administrative, moral, monetary, and organisational.
Cyclingnews takes a more in-depth take a look at the 15 Ladies’s WorldTeams for 2024.
AG Insurance coverage-Soudal
- Finest signing: Sarah Gigante
- Rider to observe: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio
- Notable addition: Kimberley Le Court docket, Julie Van de Velde
AG Insurance coverage-Soudal have secured one of many coveted 15 WorldTeam licences for the 2024-2025 seasons, a objective for the group since its inception. The group provide a three-tier program, a growth pathway from under-19 to its under-23 to the brand new WorldTeam.
There are three new signings in 2024, with Julie Van de Velde becoming a member of the group from Fenix-Deceuninck and multi-time African Continental Champion Kimberley Le Court docket. A final-minute resolution noticed the group safe Sarah Gigante, who mutually agreed to finish her contract with Movistar early. The Australian brings her highly effective time trial and climbing strengths to the squad, and may shine within the mountainous stage races.
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, who meant to retire final 12 months, decided to steer the AG Insurance coverage-Soudal-QuickStep. In what has been one among her finest profession strikes, Moolman-Pasio has reignited her drive to succeed with wins at Tour de Romandie, Setmana Valenciana, Durango Emakumeen Saria, Tour Féminin Worldwide des Pyrénées, top-10s within the Ardennes Classics, third total at Vuelta a Burgos and sixth total on the Tour de France Femmes.
Look ahead to Moolman-Pasio to assist develop expertise throughout the three AG Insurance coverage-Soudal programmes in 2024.
Canyon-SRAM Racing
- Finest signing: Zoe Bäckstedt
- Riders to observe: Ricarda Bauernfeind, Antonia Niedermaier
- Notable addition: Justyna Czapla
Coming into a fifth season on the Ladies’s WorldTour, Canyon-SRAM Racing continues with a strong roster of veterans – Kasia Niewiadoma, Elise Chabbey and even Chloe Dygert. Subsequent season, search for a surge from a flock of younger expertise, as 9 of the 15 riders begin the season at 23 years of age or youthful. The German duo of Antonia Niedermeier, 20, and Ricarda Bauernfeind, 23, who graduated to the WorldTour final 12 months from the group’s growth squad, wasted no time in making impressions and are anticipated to do extra.
Bauernfeind turned the youngest stage winner of the Tour de France Femmes with a solo victory on the third day of racing final 12 months. Niedermeier attacked late on stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Donne and held off Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) for the victory. Furthemore, Niedermaier gained two time trials in 2023, together with the German U23 title, whereas Bauernfeind climbed her method to sixth total at Tour de Romandie Féminin. They’re a formidable duo.
The newest call-up from the Canyon-SRAM Era squad is one other younger German, Justyna Czapla. {The teenager}, who turns 20 in January, captured seven prime 10s final 12 months, together with a bronze medal at nationals within the ladies’s U23 ITT. She has already embraced the longer distances of elite programs, noting that her eighth place on the 126.9km reVolta UCI 1.1 race was her largest spotlight. Anticipate her to shine in a help function this 12 months.
Zoe Bäckstedt, additionally simply 19, was one of many massive signings for the German WorldTeam prematurely of the 2024 season. She has already gained Junior World Championship titles on the observe, in cyclocross and on the street, profitable each the ladies’s junior ITT and street race rainbow jerseys in 2022. So when EF Schooling-TIBCO-SVB folded in 2023, Canyon-SRAM signed her for 3 years, starting in September final 12 months and he or she impressed with fifth total at Simac Girls Tour.
Ceratizit-WNT
- Finest signing: Marta Jaskulska
- Rider to observe: Marta Lach
- Notable addition: Cédrine Kerbaol
Beforehand acting on the Continental degree for the previous 4 seasons, Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking completed 2023 because the tenth finest group on the earth rankings and earned one among two Ladies’s WorldTour berths obtainable for the following two seasons. Marta Lach anchors a core roster of 14 returning riders, with solely Marta Jaskulska the one new addition.
Lach, nonetheless solely 26, will journey a fourth 12 months with the German group. She completed with a flourish this 12 months, profitable back-to-back one-day races at La Choralis Fourmies Féminine and Grisette Grand Prix de Wallonie, which adopted a second and fourth place at two different French one-day occasions. She compiled 21 prime 20s, together with a stage win at Bretagne Girls Tour.
French time trial champion Cédrine Kerbaol was the most important addition to the group this previous season and can proceed to develop at simply 22 years of age. Early within the season she gained a stage and the GC title at tour de Normandie Féminin, scored prime 10s in three extra stage races and rode into the very best younger rider jersey on her first look on the Tour de France Femmes. At that race she proved she may climb with the very best and was aggressive throughout all forms of terrain.
Newcomer Jaskulska raced 4 seasons with the Liv programme. At 23, the Polish rider has three ITT bronze medals in her nationwide championships, ending behind teammate Lach the final two seasons. She performs properly in one-day races, with prime 15s at Basic Brugge-De Panne and Dwars door Vlaanderen in 2023, and provides depth to a younger group of all riders of their 20s who’re out to show they belong on the prime tier.
Workforce dsm-firmenich PostNL
- Finest signing: Rachele Barbieri
- Riders to observe: Juliette Labous, Charlotte Kool
- Notable addition: Josie Nelson
Workforce dsm-firmenich PostNL have constructed a squad across the growth and success of French rider Juliette Labous, who has a deal with the hilly one-day occasions and mountainous phases races.
Labous has regularly proven progress within the high-altitude mountain climbs, time trials, and explosiveness in one-day races, together with a tactical talent that retains her in competition for stage wins and prime locations within the normal classification on the largest races. The group additionally has a profitable wildcard in Pfeiffer Georgi.
The group has added younger climbing expertise in recent times with Maeve Plouffe, Eglantine Rayer, Anna van der Meiden and Nienke Vinke.
The opposite principal focus for the group centres round sprinter Charlotte Kool, who spent her first season at Workforce dsm-firmenich underneath the steering of Lorena Wiebes earlier than her compatriot transferred to SD Worx and have become one among her largest rivals.
The group have elevated help for Kool within the sprints by bringing Rachele Barbieri on board. The Italian sprinter joins the group from Liv Racing-TeqFind however has ample expertise to supply within the largest races.
Kool missed out on a coveted stage win on the Tour de France Femmes, however with Barbieri becoming a member of her dash group alongside Franziska Koch, Megan Jastrab and Georgi, her possibilities of capturing that win have elevated.
FDJ-SUEZ
- Finest signing: Amber Kraak
- Riders to observe: Marta Cavalli, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
- Notable addition: Lauren Molengraaf
FDJ-Suez had their most-ever wins in a season in 2023 with 19 wins, however could not fairly match their victories on the largest races from the 12 months earlier than.
Star climber and GC hope Marta Cavalli nonetheless felt the consequences of her brutal crash on the inaugural Tour de France Femmes within the early a part of the season however confirmed indicators of returning to her finest. She’ll look to get again to the Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallone profitable type from 2022 and at solely 25 has greater than sufficient time to take action subsequent season.
The French facet maintains one of many peloton’s hottest prime riders, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, who took extra thrilling wins on the Tour of Scandinavia and completed within the prime seven on the Tour de France Femmes and Giro d’Italia Donne.
They’ll doubtless share management at Grand Excursions and the hillier Classics in 2024, but in addition have Grace Brown who can function on a variety of parcours and took essentially the most wins of her profession. This included three at WorldTour degree and he or she stays among the best particular person time trial riders on the earth. Loes Adegeest additionally added one other dimension to their assault, taking her brilliance in Esports biking to the street on the Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway Race with victory there.
They’ve misplaced expertise in Emilia Fahlin to Arkea-B&B Accommodations and sprinter Clara Copponi to Lidl-trek, however have introduced in a mixture of youth expertise in Lauren Molengraaf and Léa Curinier, alongside confirmed expertise in Coralie Demay. Amber Kraak was one other strong pickup from Jumbo-Visma and may assist Uttrup Ludwig and Cavalli on the Ardennes Classics and Grand Excursions.
Fenix-Deceuninck
- Finest signing: Pauliena Rooijakkers
- Riders to observe: Yara Kastelijn, Julie De Wilde
- Breakthrough star: Christina Schweinberger
Fenix-Deceuninck made fairly the step up in 2023 throughout their first 12 months at World Tour degree, and there isn’t any cause to imagine 2024 will not be extra of the identical.
Riders discovered new heights because the group stepped as much as the game’s prime division and the Belgian group lived with the large names of SD Worx and Lidl-Trek on the Tour de France femmes.
They took an unbelievable stage victory by Yara Kastelijn and got here shut to a different with Julie Van de Velde getting agonisingly near the end line on stage 3 solely to be caught by the sprinting peloton. Nonetheless, they punched properly above their weight and in addition fought onerous to be within the Queen of the Mountains jersey for the opening few phases.
The Tour wasn’t their solely spotlight, as Austria’s Christina Schweinberger established herself as a constant top-ten rider on most parcours. She was wonderful within the spring Classics and got here top-eight in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Brugge de Panne and Gent Wevelgem.
She continued this into the summer season with fifth on a stage of the Tour and two unbelievable performances on the World Championships in Scotland to take third within the time trial and fifth within the street race.
With herself and Kastelijn main a younger squad that additionally contains abilities akin to multi-discipline star Puck Pieterse, with the added expertise of Pauliena Rooijakkers, Fenix-Deceuninck needs to be properly watched out for.
Human Powered Well being
- Finest signing: Krista Doebel-Hickok
- Rider to observe: Audrey Cordon-Ragot
- Notable addition: Yuliia Biriukova
Of their second season as a Ladies’s WorldTour group, the Human Powered Well being squad improved 13 spots within the year-end UCI group rankings from the inaugural leap to the highest tier. The increase was largely attributable to some notable success for Polish rider Daria Pikulik, who had a stage victory at Santos Tour Down Underneath, a one-day win at Konvert Koerse and made her GC title on the Tour of Guangxi in October the icing on the cake for the season.
Two veterans will present GC management for the group this 12 months, notably Audrey Cordon-Ragot and in addition Ruth Edwards. They permit the group to provide Pikulik room to proceed to develop.
A two-time US nationwide champion, Edwards is a wild card, having stepped away from a embellished street profession in 2021 and constructed endurance at off-road occasions, together with second place at Leadville MTB 100. The eight-time French champion had an unsettled begin to her 2023, however settled in at HPH in April this previous season. A now-stable atmosphere, and an Olympic Video games 12 months in her dwelling nation, provides Cordon-Ragot enormous incentives to carry out at her finest.
Fellow US rider Krista Doebel-Hickok is one among 9 new riders on the squad for 2024, and he or she ought to make an instantaneous impression. The California native is a pure climber who gained the Tour Féminin des Pyrénées in 2022 and has ridden properly on mountain phases on the Tour de France Femmes and Giro d’Italia Donne. She’s going to pack a formidable 1-2 punch when racing with Edwards, but in addition with WorldTour debutante Yuliia Biriukova.
Biriukova will add choices for attacking on mountainous terrain. The 25-year-old Ukranian has already notched a stage victory within the 2022 Thüringen Girls Tour, had podiums within the Tour des Pyrénées and in 2023, whereas a part of the UAE Improvement Workforce, gained the Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar.
Lidl-Trek
- Returning to the peloton: Ellen van Dijk
- Rider to observe: Elisa Longo Borghini, Lizzie Deignan, Elisa Balsamo
- Notable additions: Isabella Holmgren, Ava Holmgren, Izzy Sharp, Fleur Moors, Felicity Wilson-Haffenden
Lidl-Trek has made one of many largest pushes in growth, signing junior mountain bike and cyclocross World Champion Isabella Holmgren and sister Ava Holmgren, junior ladies’s time trial Worlds silver medalist Izzy Sharp, junior ladies’s street race Worlds bronze medallist Fleur Moors, and junior time trial World Champion Felicity Wilson-Haffenden to the group beginning in 2024.
Whereas the way forward for the group is wanting brilliant, Lidl-Trek will doubtless deal with leaders Elisa Longo Borghini and Lizzie Deignan throughout the most important one-day races and stage races. Ellen van Dijk may also return to the peloton after taking time from the game on maternity go away however will focus her time trial abilities on the Olympic Video games.
Becoming a member of the group this 12 months is Clara Copponi from FDJ-SUEZ. She provides dash energy to the group and is bound to help Elisa Balsamo on flatter terrain but in addition in phases at races just like the Giro d’Italia Ladies and Tour de France Femmes.
If there have been ever a group that would rival SD Worx, it’s Lidl-Trek, stacked with such a variety of expertise, together with Gaia Realini, Lucinda Model, and Shirin van Anrooij, amongst others; look ahead to this group to shake up the SD Worx racing narrative in 2024.
Liv-AlUla Jayco
- Finest signing: Mavi García
- Rider to observe: Ruby Roseman-Gannon
- Notable addition: Ella Wyllie
The Australian group Jayco AlUla introduced in July they’d merge with Liv Racing-Teqfind and race in 2024 as Liv-AlUla. Each squads had related seasons, Jayco ending fifteenth within the UCI World rankings and Liv Racing at seventeenth. The core of the squad returns with a trio of Australian expertise – Georgia Baker, Alex Manly and Ruby Roseman-Gannon.
Final season’s finest particular person performer was Ruby Roseman-Gannon, who ignited the 12 months in January with the GC victory at Bay Crits, fourth total at Santos Tour Down Underneath, after which had 5 prime 20s at spring Classics in Europe, together with fifth at Dwars door Vlaanderen. She continued with sturdy stage racing performances and may show to be a key asset for the group’s latest signing, Mavi García.
5-time Spanish champion García offers GC energy for any stage race, having a pair of GC prime 10s on the Giro d’Italia Donne within the final two seasons, together with third total in 2022. A confirmed climber, she may have 4 teammates in tow from her Liv season final 12 months – Jeanne Korevaar, Silke Smulders, Quinty Ton, and Caroline Andersson – so she gained’t actually really feel like she’s on a brand new group.
New Zealander Ella Wyllie is a 21-year-old rising expertise, who was third eventually 12 months’s Navarra Ladies’s Elite Basic one-day race and second total within the youth classification at each the Santos Tour Down Underneath (with eighth on GC) and the Tour de France Femmes. She rode on the Continental degree for Lifeplus Wahoo final 12 months and might be a key help rider on any climbing phases for García.
Movistar
- Finest signing: Olivia Baril
- Rider to observe: Liane Lippert, Emma Norsgaard
- Notable addition: Claire Steels
Nothing can put together a group for the departure of one of many sport’s icons in Annemiek van Vleuten, however that’s the scenario now offered to Movistar. The Dutch celebrity has stated goodbye after three nice years on the Spanish group and they’re going to now have work on their palms to fill the void of outcomes left by her retirement.
Van Vleuten gained each the Giro and Vuelta in her remaining season and it might be improper to anticipate the group to instantly replicate it, nevertheless, on the Tour de France Femmes it was her teammates who stepped up. Liane Lippert took her first WorldTour victory in three years on stage 2, earlier than Emma Norsgaard doubled the group’s success with a breakaway triumph on stage 6.
Lippert might be key in 2024 and may lead the group within the Classics and Grand Excursions, however she’ll have the added help of recent signings Claire Steels and Olivia Baril from Israel-Premier Tech Roland and UAE Workforce ADQ respectively.
Baril particularly is a good pickup for his or her GC ambitions having completed within the prime six total of each Itzulia Ladies and the Tour of Scandinavia, and at solely 26 nonetheless has a lot of roo to develop additional.
The Spanish squad additionally invested in youth with the signing of Spanish twins Laura and Lucia Ruiz Pérez from Eneicat-CMTeam-Seguros Deportivos and bringing in British expertise Cat Ferguson. The latter will not be part of the squad till August after turning 18 in April earlier than her first full WorldTour season begins in 2025.
Roland Biking
- Finest signing: Sylvie Swinkels
- Rider to observe: Tamara Dronova-Balabolina
- Notable addition: Maggie Coles-Lyster
The Swiss group rolls alongside for a seventh season and in 2024 has a 3rd title change throughout three years on the WorldTour degree. As Israel Premier Tech Roland final 12 months, the Twelfth-ranked ladies’s group within the World had constant performances from six riders to rise six spots from the 12 months earlier than.
Gone to Movistar is Claire Steels, who was the highest performer for the squad final 12 months, however not far behind was Tamara Dronova-Balabolina. The 30-year-old can energy throughout all forms of hilly terrain on one-day races and by no means appears to falter in stage races. She completed on the rostrum on 4 of 5 days at Ruta del Sol late within the spring and was third on GC. Late within the season she completed sixth at Tre Valli Varesine ladies’s race.
It’s an Olympic 12 months and Canadian Maggie Coles-Lyster has aspirations on the observe, however she ought to have the ability to contribute together with her first full season at Roland Biking, and one with out distractions from the collapse of B&B Accommodations after which extra turmoil with Zaaf Biking. That’s all previously and the sturdy sprinter will look to proceed sturdy outcomes on the street, having completed fourth at Tour of Guangxi.
WorldTour and group rookie Sylvie Swinkels is simply 23, however already has 5 seasons of racing. The Dutch rider provides depth to the sprints for flat phases and one-day races, and might assault for her personal alternatives, akin to Clasica de Almeria the place she was within the bunch for tenth.
Workforce SD Worx
- Returning to the peloton: Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
- Riders to observe: Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky, Lorena Wiebes
- Notable addition: Femke Gerritse
Essentially the most highly effective group in ladies’s biking, SD Worx, have a variety of profitable expertise throughout one-day races and Spring Classics, time trials, flat to mountainous terrain and stage races with which to decide on on any given occasion throughout the WorldTour season.
Notably returning to the peloton this 12 months is former World Champion Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, who has taken time away from the game on maternity go away. The Dutch rider is among the most prolific winners within the Spring Classics, having secured titles at Amstel Gold Race, Strade Bianche, Gent-Wevelgem, Ronde van Drenthe, Omloop Het Niewsblad and Tour of Flanders. Look ahead to her to spice up the group’s already massively profitable Classics squad.
The group additionally depends closely on their three prime riders: Tour de France winner Demi Vollering, World Champion Lotte Kopecky and world’s prime sprinter Lorena Wiebes. It will likely be a prime precedence for the group to win a second consecutive Tour de France title however Kopecky will purpose to strengthen her personal wild-card function within the one-day races and stage races sporting the rainbow jersey in addition to place a deal with street and observe racing on the Olympic Video games. Lorena Wiebes will dominate the sprints, however watch as she continues to evolve into a serious participant (and a winner) within the hilly one-day races and stage races alike.
The group’s roster is basically the identical as final 12 months, with only one new signing, Femke Gerritse, who joins the group from Parkhotel Valkenburg. The 22-year-old will add to the group’s climbing strengths in hilly and mountainous stage races, becoming a member of the group’s different growing riders Anna Shackley, and Niamh Fisher-Black.
Visma-Lease a Bike
- Finest signing: Margaux Vigie
- Riders to observe: Marianne Vos, Riejanne Markus and Anna Henderson
- Notable addition: Lieke Nooijen
The Dutch group may have a brand new really feel in 2024 with a brand new title, new roster and new administration setup. They lacked victories on the largest races except for the inaugural Vuelta Femenina the place they gained three phases – the opening group time trial and two sprints with Marianne Vos.
Vos could not attain her prime degree persistently as she struggled with worsening ache and an absence of energy in her left leg attributable to a pinched iliac artery. She had surgical procedure twice in 2023 to deal with the problem.
This is not to say Vos was far off the success that has seen her turn into essentially the most profitable rider of all time, solely lacking out on stage wins on the Giro and Tour de France Femmes behind Lorena Wiebes and Chiara Consonni. So even at 36, anticipate Vos to be sturdy.
Other than her, the group will depend on Riejanne Markus as their chief on the Tour de France Femmes and hill classics, with Anna Henderson enjoying a giant function within the Spring Classics. The Brit was good towards the clock in 2023 with out taking a win, however did take pleasure in time within the pink jersey on the Vuelta.
With the three established leaders, Visma-Lease a Bike have invested long-term into their cyclocross star Fem van Empel. The 21-year-old is already World Champion and is thus far undefeated within the cross area this season. Anticipate her to make one other step up on the street in 2024 after taking a win on the Tour de l’Avenir and displaying indicators of energy on the Giro and Tour de Romandie.
They’ve misplaced three riders to EF Schooling-Cannondale in Noemi Rüegg, Kim Cadzow and Coryn Labecki, however have saved their three principal leaders. Margaux Vigie was a powerful Classics rider at LifePlus Wahoo and may work properly with Henderson and Vos on the cobbles. Lieke Nooijen and Mijntje Geurts have additionally been introduced in to bolster the younger expertise.
UAE Workforce ADQ
- Finest signing: Dominika Wlodarczyk
- Rider to observe: Silvia Persico
- Notable addition: Chiara Consonni
Silvia Persico returns because the chief of UAE Workforce ADQ for a second season having posted a gradual string of prime outcomes final 12 months, together with a signature win at De Brabantse Pijl in April. On the UAE Tour Ladies, an necessary dwelling race for her group, she completed third total. She was eighth total on the Tour de France Femmes and fifth total at Tour de Romandie earlier than taking the silver medal on the UCI Gravel World Championships to showcase her abilities.
Added to the squad in 2023 was fellow Italian Chiara Consonni, who had been teammates with Persico at Valcar-Journey & Service for 5 years and the duo created a stellar 1-2 punch.
The 24-year-old dazzled for the UAE squad, taking three podiums at spring Classics, together with third at Scheldeprijs and a win at Trofee Maarten Wynants, after which was a recreation changer with a victory on the ultimate stage on the Giro d’Italia Donne. She completed sturdy with GC at Tour of Chongming Island and second on the one-day Tour of Guangxi.
There are 4 new riders in 2023 – Anastasia Carbonari, Tereza Neumanova, Karlijn Swinkels and Dominika Wlodarczyk, who’s the youngest at 22. Be careful for the younger Polish rider who compiled a staggering 25 prime 10s with a Continental squad final season. Wlodarczyk gained a stage and the general on the under-23 Watersley Womens Problem, plus she took first or second GC locations in three different stage races. On the 1.1 GP du Morbihan Femmes, she completed third behind Grace Brown and Cédrine Kerboal. She has famous all-around skills and is a rising star.
Uno-X Mobility
- Finest signing: Simone Boilard
- Rider to observe: Anniina Ahtosalo
- Notable addition: Katrine Aalerud
Uno-X have maintained their standing as a WorldTour group for 2024 which might be their third 12 months within the prime division. They took their first professional win by Amalie Dideriksen on the GP Eco-Struct, including to their 4 nationwide titles claimed in 2023.
Anouska Koster was a constant performer and got here near a stage win on the Tour de France Femmes on stage 4 after having fun with a stint within the Queen of the Mountains jersey.
The previous World Champion ought to play a giant half within the Norwegian facet’s hope to keep up their WorldTour standing once more in 2024 and compete for even larger races, alongside the skilled Maria Giulia Confalonieri and their nice younger expertise Anniina Ahtosalo.
The younger Finn Ahtosalo is among the most promising riders within the ladies’s peloton and completed within the prime ten of WorldTour degree dash phases all through final season, maybe finest displaying her energy with a podium end at Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames. She’s each the nationwide time trial and street race champion in Finland and at 20 has heaps extra to provide together with her long-term future secured at Uno-X Mobility till 2027.
New signings in Katrine Aalerud and Simone Boilard must also bolster the squad all year long with the previous working properly for teammates throughout her stint at Movistar and the latter nonetheless having a lot of room to develop at solely 23 years outdated. They’ve additionally introduced in Teuntje Beekhuis from Jumbo-Visma and 19-year-old Danish rider Solbjørk Minke Anderson.
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