4 weeks after breaking her arm in a crash on the Tour of Flanders, Lizzie Deignan is about to journey La Vuelta Femenina, which begins on Sunday.
Lidl-Trek introduced their squad for the eight-stage Grand Tour on Thursday, and Deignan was a shock addition, contemplating the severity of her harm, sustained early on in a crash at Flanders.
“I’m comfortable to have recovered in time for the Vuelta; I’m actually wanting ahead to it and getting the primary stage race of my season underneath my belt. It was clearly disappointing to crash out of Flanders, and I undoubtedly missed racing the remaining Classics,” Deignan mentioned, Cyclingnews reported.
“Nonetheless, all the pieces has gone actually easily since, and my restoration has perhaps been higher than we even anticipated, so it’s nice to be ready to have the ability to resume racing already.”
She can be joined in Spain by Elisa Longo Borghini, Ellen van Dijk, Amanda Spratt, Elynor Bäckstedt, Brodie Chapman, and Gaia Realini. Longo Borghini and Realini are the likeliest leaders for a robust Lidl-Trek squad, who will go up towards the likes of Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM).
Deignan’s damaged arm was the primary fracture of her profession, she revealed post-Tour of Flanders.
On the time, the 35-year-old mentioned that she had “been swimming towards the tide lately so I’ll first take time to get better after which change my route”.
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“When it comes to my expectations for the race, it’s going to firstly be to get by the eight days safely and to be stronger on the finish than I’m in the beginning,” Deignan mentioned this week.
“To be in the beginning line in a crew function is very nice and it’s a superb likelihood to construct my kind because it means I can get a great deal of work finished, and that’s what I would like.”
“General, we now have a very robust group of girls racing and I believe it is going to be a superb likelihood for us to maintain the momentum we constructed within the Spring Classics going and to get some extra outcomes,” she mentioned.
Deignan’s massive purpose for the remainder of the season is the Paris Olympics, which she is hoping to be chosen for, 12 years on from the silver medal she gained within the street race on the London Olympics.
She is going to go on to steer the Nice Britain crew on the Tour of Britain Girls, which takes place in the beginning of June.
