Lizzie Deignan’s Trek-Segafredo group won the opening team time trial as staff leader Elisa Longo Borghini chose the leader’s jersey to the very first phase of the Giro Rosa on Friday. Trek coated the 16.8km route across the Tuscan city of Grosseto at 20min5secs, together with Boels-Dolmans next few seconds ago and Mitchelton-Scott next a {} two minutes. Deignan is in exceptional shape, having won the previous two women’s World Tour races in GP Plouay along with La Course from Le Tour, the latter held on the afternoon of their very first phase of this Tour de France at Nice a few weeks back. Nevertheless, it had been Italian time trial winner Elisa Longo Borghini – that brilliant leadout had been instrumental in Deignan’s La Course triumph – that deservedly led the group on the line, supposing that the race leader’s jersey. Longo Borghini will use the leader maglia rosa for {} time at Saturday’s next phase, a 124.8km jog from Paganico into Arcidosso at Tuscany. {Even the 10-stage Giro Rosa is the sole women’s grand trip to the calendar along with also an all-star cast comprising the very best female riders on the planet, including Nerf winner Marianne Vos [CCC], two-time winner Anna van der Breggen [Boels-Dolmans], along with the latest winner, Annemiek van Vleuten [Mitchelton-Scott], are {} . |} The race came under fire on its launching, but because of its usage of podium women, a practice that has been stopped at the continuing Tour de France.
Trek coated the 16.8km route across the Tuscan city of Grosseto at 20min5secs, together with Boels-Dolmans next few seconds ago and Mitchelton-Scott next a {} two minutes. Deignan is in exceptional shape, having won the previous two women’s World Tour races in GP Plouay along with La Course from Le Tour, the latter held on the afternoon of their very first phase of this Tour de France at Nice a few weeks back. Nevertheless, it was time trial winner Elisa Longo Borghini – that brilliant leadout had been instrumental in Deignan’s La Course triumph – that deservedly led the group on the line, supposing the race leader’s jersey. Longo Borghini will use the leader maglia rosa for {} time in Saturday’s next point, a 124.8km operate by Paganico into Arcidosso at Tuscany. Even the 10-stage Giro Rosa is the sole women’s grand trip to the calendar along with also an all-star cast comprising the very best female riders on the planet, including Nerf winner Marianne Vos [CCC], two-time winner Anna van der Breggen [Boels-Dolmans], along with the latest winner, Annemiek van Vleuten [Mitchelton-Scott], are taking part. The race came under fire on its launching, but because of its usage of podium women, a practice that has been stopped at the continuing Tour de France.
