'Expect the unexpected' – Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto aim at GC and sprint stages at Giro d'Italia Women, but warn of unpredictability
Antonia Niedermaier gunning for over📖all, Chiara Consonni looking to add fourth stage to palmarès

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto head to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2025 Giro d'Italia Women with a two-pronged attack plan on the overall, as young German racer 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Antonia Niedermaier takes aim at a GC bid while Chia👍ra꧒ Consonni is their rider for the bunch sprints.
Niedermaier, 22, finished sixth overall in the 2024 race, whilst in the 2023 edition she claimed vict🎀ory on a tough mountainous stage t𒐪o Ceres ahead of ov🧸erall winner Annemiek𝓰 van Vleuten, but then had to abandon the following day.
Consonni, meanwhile, has taken a stage win every year since 2022 in her home Grand Tour, with last summer's victory on stage 2 against Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) a notable highlight of her season.
"I think this year, the Giro is a bit harder than in other years, so we try first to be focused on the GC with Toni [Niedermaier]," Consonni said in a team press release about a Giro d'Italia which starts in her home city of Bergamo on Sunday.
"Then we will see if there will be an opportunity ♛for me, of course, but I don’t think there are a lot! I will still be ready for every stage that it’s not super hard and which can arrive in a bunchꦍ sprint."
"For sure it is a special race for me," added Niederm🦩aier. "This🅠 year I hope I can be on the podium, but we will also try to fight for the overall GC."
Riding their twelfth and fifteenth Giro d'Italia respectively, Canyon will be able to draw heavily on veterans Italian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Soraya Paladin and Australian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tiffany Cromwell's lengthy experience in the race.
Apart from helping to guide the younger riders in the squad, Paladin said she would be looking to make an impact on stage four to Pianezze, as she knows the roads well from training, while Cromwell pointed out that the Italian Grand Tour invariably tends to produce multiple u𓆉npredictable scenarios.
"Nothing ever surprises me in this race. Something typically Giro though is that you’ve always got to expect the unexpected – especially꧙ with the routes and stage profiles. It might look easy on paper, but many times you then get a surprise crazy climb or somethinಞg entirely unexpected. We call that the 'Giro stitch-up'."
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As for her own condition, Cromw🌺ell said that after a long spell away from road racing because of fracturing her collarbone and then the cancellation of the Loꦍtto Thüringen Tour, she hoped that the gravel racing and month-long spell at altitude could help put her back on the right track.
"I think the main thing will bꦜe that I come in with a fresh mindset having been away from the road for a while," she said, "whereas some people start to get a bit tired mentally by the middle of the season."
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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.
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