{"id":688819,"date":"2026-05-23T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688819\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:07:15","slug":"looking-for-opportunities-liv-alula-jayco-head-to-giro-ditalia-women-with-balanced-lineup-and-italian-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688819\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Looking for opportunities’ \u2013 Liv-AlUla-Jayco head to Giro d\u2019Italia Women with balanced lineup and Italian leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Women\u2019s WorldTour team Liv-AlUla-Jayco will head to the Giro d\u2019Italia Women<\/a> with multiple goals as the squad chases stage wins and a top General Classification result with Italian climber Monica Trinca Colonel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Giro d\u2019Italia Women begins on Saturday, May 30th, and features nine stages<\/a> with a mix of sprint opportunities and tough mountain stages, including a penultimate day which climbs the Colle delle Finestre before a finish in Sestriere. There will also be an eye-catching mountain time-trial to Nevegal on stage 4.<\/p>\n

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27-year-old Italian climber Trinca Colonel only turned professional in 2024, but has been one of the sport\u2019s fastest-rising contenders in recent years. She finished seventh at the recent La Vuelta Feminina<\/a> and claimed her first WorldTour stage race podium at the UAE Tour in February.<\/p>\n

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After a good start last year, Trinca Colonel faded out of contention before failing to finish the final stage of the Giro d’Italia Women. She is hoping for better on this occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Giro d\u2019Italia is a special event for me,\u201d she said in a team press release<\/a>. \u201cThis year, I especially like the route and the Colle delle Finestre is one of those places I\u2019ve always dreamed of climbing in a Grand Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe I can achieve some good results. My shape is improving, so I\u2019m excited to get started and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least four stages of the Giro d\u2019Italia Women are expected to end in bunch gallops. The Australian team have included sprinter Georgia Baker in their lineup to face off against the likes of Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-ProTime), who is currently priming her sprint train at the Vuelta a Burgos<\/a> as she looks to add to her three previous stage wins at the Giro.<\/p>\n

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The team also includes Silke Smulders, who was 14th on the general classification last year and will act as key support to Trinca Colonel. The 25-year-old Dutch rider returned to racing last month after breaking her back in a crash during the second stage of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana in February.<\/p>\n

Canadian Nadia Gontova is also included in the lineup following a strong breakaway performance<\/a> at the Navarra Elite Classics last week. Caroline Andersson, Quinty Ton and Matilde Vitillo complete the squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia has three sure-fire GC days in the stage 4 time trial, the day after through Cortina, and then stage 8 into Sestriere,\u201d said the team\u2019s sport director, Shawn Clarke.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are some pretty epic locations with epic roads, and it\u2019s going to be some great racing. Then there are going to be maybe three or four dead-set sprint days, but we also know there are a couple of days in the Giro that don\u2019t go to plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving seen the courses, there are some chances for exciting racing that\u2019s neither sprint nor GC. With the team that we have for this race, we\u2019re ready for all of that. If the race goes \u2013 as the Giro can often do \u2013 a little bit off-script, we\u2019ve got a team that can adapt to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking for opportunities, and we\u2019ve seen in the last races that the riders are coming in good shape, ready to take some results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Women\u2019s WorldTour team Liv-AlUla-Jayco will head to the Giro d\u2019Italia Women with multiple goals as the squad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-688819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}