Lizzie Deignan set to sign with new Trek-Segafredo women's team in 2019
New team to be announced at the Tour de France
There will be a new women's professional cycling team launched for the 2019 season under the same management as the men's WorldTour 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo program, and set to sign former world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lizzie Deignan, according to a in CyclingWeekly on Thursday.
The women's team will apparently be named Trek Factory Racing, which already exists with off-road teams in mountain bikin🃏g, enduro and cyclo-cross and includes stars such as Katie Compton, Evie Richards and Emily Batty.
The American bike manufacture already co-titles the UCI women's team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Drops, which is run by Tom Varney. Drops launched the team in 2013, and became a UCI-registered outfit in 2016, while Trek only 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:recently took over as co-sponsor at the start of this season.
The new Trek Factory Racing team has reportedly signed 2015 world champion Deignan, who is currently on leave as she is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:expecting her first baby. The new contract would bring to an end her five-year term with Danny Stam's Boels-Dolmans t﷽eam.
CyclingWeekly also reported that the team is set to sign Sunweb's Ellen Van Dijk, along Wiggle High5 riders Elisa Longo Borghini and Audrey Cordon-Ragot after the team has been rumoured to come to a close at the end of the 2018 season - all are currently racing at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro Rosa.
Trek-Segafredo is expected to make a formal announcement from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France on the first rest day in Annecy on Monday.
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