DSM-Firmenich PostNL have been the primary WWT crew to announce their roster for the second ladies’s Grand Tour of the yr, with Juliette Labous set to guide their GC ambitions on the rebranded Giro d’Italia Women.
Labous, the runner-up on the 2023 Giro, was revealed in a video announcement featuring men’s teammate John Degenkolb alongside a powerful help squad for the eight levels made up of Francesca Barale, Eleonora Ciabocco, Franziska Koch, Josie Nelson, Becky Storrie and Nienke Vinke.
The 25-year-old Labous is in nice type having gained the French nationwide highway race title on the finish of June, with a debut within the Triclolore jersey set to come back on the Giro. She’s additionally seemed good in stage races all through 2024, with fifth at Romandie, third at Itzulia and fourth on the Vuelta.
“We’re wanting ahead to travelling to Italy for the second Grand Tour of the season with this thrilling squad. Our goal for the race is obvious, with Juliette as our finisher for the GC battle, and we’re assured that the crew we have now right here can help her in the absolute best method for us to realize our objectives collectively,” mentioned crew coach Kelvin Dekker on the team website.
“We have actually good recollections of this race from final yr with our second place total, so we have now as soon as once more made this considered one of our goal objectives for the season. We’re wanting ahead to getting underway and displaying our crew colors out on the highway.”
Labous was solely bested by the now-retired Annemiek van Vlueten in final yr’s version, so can be assured of going one higher towards the likes of Gaia Realini, Elisa Longo Borghini (each Lidl-Trek) and Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) who’re provisionally down to start out in Brescia on July 7.
Racing will get underway with a 15.7km particular person time trial within the Lombardy area, with the general GC prone to be determined totally after the seventh stage, as the ladies’s Giro heads as much as the enduring Blockhaus climb.
After finishing the Giro d’Italia Women, Labous will flip her focus to her dwelling Olympics in Paris, the place she is going to tackle each the highway race, with Audrey Cordon-Ragot and Victoire Berteau, and the time trial with the previous.
DSM-Firmenich PostNL Giro d’Italia Women 2024 roster
- Juliette Labous
- Francesca Barale
- Eleonora Ciabocco
- Franziska Koch
- Josie Nelson
- Becky Storrie
- Nienke Vinke