UAE Tour Women 2025, triumph of Elisa Longo Borghini

The Piedmontese wins the 49th race of her career, the first with UAE Team ADQ. Lorena Wiebes also did well, winning all the sprints, including the last one in Abu Dhabi

di GIUSY ANNA MARIA D'ALESSIO
February 9, 2025
Elisa Longo Borghini (Ansa)

Elisa Longo Borghini (Ansa)

Rome, 9 February 2025 - The first brick towards the final victory had been placed in yesterday's enterprise at Jebel Hafeet: the seal comes today, the day that sees Elisa Longo Borghini to finally get their hands on theUAE Tour Women 2025, with a lead in the general classification of 2'06 " on the teammate Silvia Persian and 2'08 " su Kimberley Pienaar.  

The news

  For the Piedmontese, this is how it arrives victory number 49 in his career, as well as the first with the new jersey ofUAE Team ADQ: important numbers, as are those of Lorraine Wiebes, who confirmed herself as the strongest sprinter in the world by winning all three sprints, including the final one Abu Dhabi before Sara Fiorin e Amelie Dideriksen. But he gets the big headlines Longo Borghini, which repeats the encore in these latitudes after the triumph of the 2023, while at the same time sending a strong message to her most anticipated rivals for the rest of the season: the reigning Italian champion, regardless of the never banal change of team, is already in dazzling form.

Ulissi's statements

  The Diego Ulissi, after a lifetime atUAE Team Emirates XRG, this season he changed his shirt, moving to theXDS Astana Team: a transfer that the veteran of Italian cycling spoke about to the microphones of As. "Winning every year is a small record that makes me proud, because it is not easy to achieve. Every season new riders arrive who raise the level, but my goal is to keep this streak active that has lasted since 2010, the year I entered the professional world. I'm still a bit surprised by the fact that I changed teams, but this novelty is also helping me to find new motivation. The lampre first and theUAE Team Emirates XRG then they have always been my home but today, in 35 years accomplished, it is also important to have new motivations". He says well Ulissi, yet another Italian face of a team, theXDS Astana Team, always with strong blue hues to which this year he will try to give important successes for the present but also for a future in which the fight for permanence in the category World Tour will become increasingly tight: regardless of age, winning in a cycling that is increasingly leveled towards the top is a mission that is far from easy even for a veteran of the calibre of the Tuscan. "This sport has changed so much over the course of my 16 years as a professional. In the past I happened to go to some races just to train and refine my preparation, while today it is no longer like that: you always have to be focused to try to bring home some points UCI. Now for us, as a team, it is useless to think about the past two years: we will have to do our best until the end of the season and then, only then, see where we have arrived".

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