UAE Team ADQ’s Elisa Longo Borghini will return to racing next week for the first time since abandoning the Tour de France Femmes, as she builds towards trying to win her first elite rainbow jersey at the World Championships in Rwanda.
Longo Borghini won the Giro d’Italia Women for the second time in July, but then had to abandon the Tour de France after just stages due to a gastrointestinal illness.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian will form part of the UAE Team ADQ line-up for a double header of French races next week, Thursday’s Kreiz Breizh Elites Féminin and then the WorldTour Classic Lorient Agglomération, formerly the GP de Plouay, on Saturday.
“I’d love, once – maybe it’s a dream, who knows – to win the World Championships. Dreaming is for free.”
One of the nations ranked high enough to qualify for the maximum of seven riders, Italy were initially only planning to send four riders to Rwanda – with the high costs associated with the far-flung location seeing several teams shrink their budget and so squad size. They have now decided to send six elite women to back Longo Borghini’s ambitions.
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