After 12 years within the home and worldwide peloton, DNA Professional Biking in the present day introduced that 2024 can be its final season.
Within the U.S., the UCI Continental Girls’s Workforce may at all times be counted on to be a part of the sharp finish of criterium and stage races alike. Internationally, DNA had been constructing stature as nicely, incomes nationwide titles in varied nations and giving a dominating efficiency at races just like the Vuelta a Colombia Feminina. The Utah group additionally performed an necessary position within the growth of riders. All through the years, greater than 70 riders got here by means of its program and producing quite a few Elite and U23 nationwide champions, together with British nationwide time trial champion Claire Rose, Colombian nationwide highway and time trial champion Diana Peñuela, Mexican nationwide time trial champion Anet Barrera, and Canadian nationwide highway and criterium champion Maggie Coles-Lyster.
Moreover, in 2023, DNA Professional Biking was the top-ranked UCI girls’s continental group within the Americas, with six of its riders being invited to the 2023 UCI World Championships together with Olivia Cummins (USA), Heidi Franz (USA) and Shayna Powless (USA). Two former group members are additionally heading to the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer time to compete on the monitor: Maggie Coles-Lyster (CAN) and Nicole Shields (NZL).
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But regardless of it successes, group principals cited the rising calls for for the time and sources wanted to function a global UCI group primarily based in North America as challenges they can not presently overcome.
“I’m immensely pleased with what we have now completed during the last 12 years. We now have at all times strived to present riders the perfect assist and alternatives to realize their targets and develop as bike racers. This group has far exceeded our unique targets and expectations,” mentioned Catherine Fegan-Kim, group principal and co-owner.
The group principals are devoted to persevering with to assist girls’s biking in “some capability,” though what precisely that may appear to be, DNA Professional Biking has not but revealed.
The group of 16 riders will proceed to race for the rest of 2024 with races in Colombia, France, Canada and the U.S. And the group homeowners have made it clear they may do all they’ll to assist discover new groups and houses for DNA Professional Biking employees and riders in 2025 and past
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