{"id":435521,"date":"2026-01-27T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435521\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:29:12","slug":"im-happy-with-my-form-clara-emond-on-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435521\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m happy with my form\u2019: Clara Emond on Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the pro women\u2019s peloton kicked off the season in Spain at the Challenge Ciclista Mallorca. The opening race, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/strong-start-for-clara-emond-in-spanish-season-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trofeo Marratx\u00ed\u2013Felanitx<\/a>, covered 128.8 km route, concluding on the Puig de Sant Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>While Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) took the dub after out-sprinting Marlen Reusser (Movistar) on the final climb, Saint-Ferr\u00e9ol-les-Neiges, Que.\u2019s Clara Emond made a strong impression in her first outing for St-Michel\u2013Preference Home\u2013Auber93. Emond, along national champion Alison Jackson, represented the French squad co-sponsored by Quebec-based Premier Tech. Btw, check out the finale below. The two made the lateral from EF Education \u2013 Oatly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt went very well for the first race! I did not know how I would be since I did not race last year much, but the preparation went well overall, and I am happy with my form for the moment,\u201d Emond said. \u201cI also didn\u2019t know how it would be with the team as it\u2019s a new team for me and there are a lot of new riders, but we rode the finale really well together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old lawyer by trade, crossed the line sixth, just 31 seconds behind the winner. She had hoped to continue racing the other races at the Challenge Ciclista Mallorca, but food poisoning forced her to withdraw from the remaining two events. Still, she remained optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have some details to work on, but I think we can be confident for what\u2019s to come. Unfortunately, I got food poisoning after the first race, so I had to withdraw from the other two races, but I am still happy with that season opener,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn\u2019t the only Canuck racing in Spain. National champ Alison Jackson finished 22nd, Lidl-Trek\u2019s Ava Holmgren came in 49th and Laury Milette (Team Abadie Magnan) was 59th.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, at the Trofeo Llucmajor. Movistar\u2019s Cat Ferguson won the 134.8 km race, outsprinting Clara Copponi (Lidl-Trek) and Sofie van Rooijen (UAE Team ADQ). Jackson was 13th, and Holmgren 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, the pro women\u2019s peloton kicked off the season in Spain at the Challenge Ciclista Mallorca. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[92133,49,48,131675,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-435521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-alison-jackson","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-clara-emond","12":"tag-cycling","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}