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Lidl-Trek confirmed multi-discipline veteran Lucinda Model has signed a contract extension which is able to preserve her as “an essential pillar of the staff” by 2025. The Dutch rider, who’s in her fourth season with the WorldTour staff, will mix her function as highway captain for Lidl-Trek with a cyclocross programme on the Baloise-Trek Lions staff for 2 extra seasons.
“I feel most essential is that I really feel actually like I’ve discovered my place inside the Lidl-Trek staff, and I’m extremely completely satisfied right here so, in fact, it solely made sense to remain within the Trek household for the following two years,” Brand mentioned in a staff assertion.
“With the ability to mix highway racing and cyclo-cross with Lidl-Trek and Baloise-Trek Lions is known as a privilege. The help I obtain from either side, who work tremendous nicely collectively to make it occur, is unbelievable. It offers me with a beautiful surroundings and an ideal stability and freedom to go between the 2 disciplines.”
Off-road success hit a excessive in 2021 when she received the World and European titles in cyclocross. In seven world championship appearances in cyclocross, Model has by no means completed outdoors the highest 4, final season driving to bronze on dwelling turf in Hoogerheide.
Most not too long ago Model received her first highway stage of the yr within the time trial at Baloise Women Tour, which vaulted her to the general title. It was additionally the primary time the 34-year-old had received a race in opposition to the clock in her 15-year profession.
Model makes her first look on the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, taking the beginning line alongside six different teammates with the beginning on Sunday in Clermont-Ferrand.
“I’m as formidable as ever. The game has grown a lot since I first turned skilled and there’s nonetheless a lot additional to go and a lot extra I wish to obtain in my profession, and a kind of huge targets can be ticked off quickly once I be a part of my teammates for this yr’s Tour de France Femmes,” she famous.
Model goes into the eight-day Grand Tour in prime highway kind, having earned 4 podiums in her week of racing on the Baloise Women Tour. Within the spring she had a pair of prime 12s in Paris-Roubaix Femmes and Tour of Flanders.
“Lucinda has turn out to be an essential pillar in our staff, and we’re extremely happy that we’ve discovered an settlement to resume her contract and that she has re-signed for 2 extra years,” Sport Director Ina Teutenberg mentioned. “She is a real asset to the staff, a rider who’s able to each profitable in her personal proper and benefiting from alternatives after they come up but in addition serving to information her teammates to victory as nicely.”
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