European road race champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Annemiek van Vleuten will race her final event for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mitchelton-Scott at the three-day 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta, which starts in To﷽ledo, Spain, on Friday.🌼 The 38-year-old has spent the past five seasons with the Australian team, but will move on to Movistar in 2021.
"I'm looking forward to finishing off this season with the team on a high," Van Vleuten said on Mitchelton-Scott's website on Wednesday. "That ⛦will be not achieved just by the result, but more through working together as a team and following a plan together. I want to finish off my five years with the team on a high, with a lot of teamwork."
Van Vleuten praised the organisers for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:having organised a three-day race – recent editions have been over two days – with the event corresponding with the final three days of the men's Vuelta a España, with♕ the final days of both events fini﷽shing in Madrid on Sunday.
"The uphill finish on stage 1 is not really a long uphill, but for sure I would love to give it a go there," said Van Vleuten of the 82.2km opening stage between Toldeoܫ and Escalona.
"The short time trial" – stage 2, over 9.44km aroun🍸d Boadilla del Monte – "will be also challenging for my wrist because I was not allowed to go out of my saddle and sprint for the last six weeks."
Van Vleuten 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fractured her wrist in a crash at the finish of stage 7 of the Giro Rosa in September, while leading the race overall. Despite being forced to quit the race, Van Vleuten got the all clear from doctors to ride the World Championships road race in Imola, Italy, just over a week later, with her wrist in a brace, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:taking the silver medal behind💮 Dutch national teamm🅰ate Anna van der Breggen.
"I'm also looking forward to the last stage, where we will work together in the sprint lead-out for Sarah Roy," Van Vleuten added of the 92.2km stage 3 around Madrid. "And then afterwards🧜 I'm going to cry, because then I'll realise that my time with t🔜his amazing team and people has come to an end."
Besides Roy, Van Vleuten's last race with Mitchelton-Scott will be in the company of Jess Allen, Janneke Ensing, Jess R𝔍oberts and Georgia Williams, and sports director Alejandro Gonzalez-Tablas said that the 'extra' stage – stage 1, with the Boadilla del Monte time trial and the final Madrid circuit having both been used in the last two years – could change things if the wind blows.
"It's not a super hard stage, but it's a windy area, so we can expect some actio🔜n if the wind is strong enough, and the finish line is on a punchy climb," Gonzalez-Tablas explained. "For the climbers, it's not super hard, but I think it suits some of our riders well, so we'll give it a crack.
"If yo♈u make the front group on stage 1 if it splits up, then the time trial will decide everything for t🦄he overall," he said.
"It's been aꦑ long 'short' season," Gonzalez-Tablas added, "but we have a group of girls who have performed very well during this period, so we expect s𒆙ome good rides and maybe we can fight for the jersey."
Mitchelton-Scott for the 2020 Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta: Jess Allen, Jannek🅘e Ensin𝔍g, Jess Roberts, Sarah Roy, Annemiek van Vleuten, Georgia Williams
