The training AG Insurance-Soudal Team has revealed the name of its first recruit for the next season, and it is a rider from a French team! Indeed, after three years spent within the Cofidis Women Teamthe Belgian Alana Castrique will cross the border again on January 1st – she had launched her career at Lotto Soudal Ladies – since she has signed up for two seasons with one of the two Women’s WorldTeams in the flat country. “At AG Insurance – Soudal, I hope to finally give the best of myself. I had two years of bad luck due to some pretty serious injuries and I was never really able to show what I was capable of.”says the 25-year-old runner on her future team’s website.
Video – Alana Castrique on the microphone of Cyclism’Actu at the start of 2023
“I’m doing everything I can to be fully ready next year”
“I’m working hard every day to get back to my highest level, and it’s starting to pay off.”continues the woman who recently won a European bronze medal in the mixed relay. “I’m doing everything I can to be fully ready next year, so that the team can count on me for the Flemish classics. With my experience in the professional peloton, in which I have been for seven years, I can be a good road captain.”
Third in the road race of Belgian Championships In 2021, the native of Roeselare already has very specific objectives in mind for the next financial year. “My personal goals for 2025 are to be at the start of the Tour de France again, to be on the podium of the Belgian Road Championship, to defend my title at the Belgian Gravel Championship and to be selected for the European or World Championships with the national team. The cherry on the cake would be to finish in the top 20 at Paris-Roubaix again.”concludes the one who finished twentieth in theHell of the North in 2022.
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