Kasia Niewiadoma says the addition of Milan-San Remo to the ladies’s WorldTour calendar subsequent 12 months will “increase the extent even greater” in ladies’s biking, although she added {that a} full complement of Monument races could be a welcome subsequent step.
It was introduced final week that a ladies’s version of the Italian Monument will happen subsequent 12 months, with the race held on the identical day because the male equal.
Chatting with Biking Weekly, the Canyon–SRAM rider stated: “I really feel like it may be one other race that can simply increase the extent even greater. It is simply one other factor that motivates you, with the ability to be the primary girl to win Milan-San Remo after a break now of nevertheless a few years. However it might be good to have all the males’s Monuments in our season.”
The 5 monuments embody Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Il Lombardia, as but, there isn’t a feminine model of the latter within the 2025 calendar.
As issues stand no route info has but been launched for the ladies’s Milan-San Remo, however the race is being labelled as a “return” by its organisers, RCS, after a precursor referred to as the Primavera Basic was held between 1999 and 2005. The final 118 km of the lads’s race, together with the well-known climbs of the Cipressa and Poggio, had been used for that occasion.
Niewiadoma has loved arguably her best-ever season on the highway with a victory at Flèche Wallonne Féminine within the spring and the general title on the Tour de France Femmes to her title. She defined that after a irritating 2023, her outcomes during the last twelve months have been a a lot wanted confidence increase forward of the rise in competitors within the ladies’s peloton subsequent season.
Former two-time highway world champion Anna van der Breggen is one in all two star names set to return to ladies’s racing subsequent season. A number of up and coming riders are additionally set to make their WorldTour debuts together with British rising star Cat Ferguson.
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“It is actually motivating to see that in only one season, all the pieces can change,” she stated. “I’ve gone from pursuing these victories for thus lengthy and being sort of there, however on the second or third spot to then having two large victories and them making me really feel so significantly better about myself and my profession. It’s good to have them checked off, for example.
“My dream is all the time to win Strade Bianche so realizing that I received Flèche Wallonne, I’ve proven myself that I simply must concentrate on Strade Bianche, and I’ll get it now. I additionally really feel prefer it makes me need to keep on the highest of ladies’s biking.
“Ending the Tour within the yellow jersey and profitable an enormous traditional is one thing that I actually need to repeat. I do not need to fall behind, I do not need to be like ‘okay, I acquired it, and now I can calm down’, it is simply one thing that made me need to expertise extra of it.”
She added: “I feel it may be tremendous fascinating subsequent 12 months, there’s a lot of youthful riders turning into stronger, and we even have Anna [van der Breggen] and Pauline [Ferrand-Prévot] coming again to highway biking, so I feel subsequent 12 months might be a very powerful 12 months for everybody.
“However as we have now proven in the course of the Tour de France Femmes, I feel that ladies’s biking may be very fascinating and unpredictable. The drama is big, as a result of our races or levels are shorter, so nobody waits for something. The motion is all the time on from the beginning.”
