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EF Education-Cannondale DS after double-win in Mallorca on team's debut: "We couldn’t have asked for a better start"
CyclingWednesday, 24 January 2024 at 10:00
EF Education-Cannondale began their maiden season in a stunning fashion in Mallorca with back to back wins. The American squad won the Trofeo Felanitx on Saturday with Noemi Rüegg and then backed that up 24 hours later with Magdeleine Vallieres claiming victory in the Trofeo Palma. And it goes without saying that it was a first professional victory for both 22-year-old ladies.
"What’s also nice is that we’ve won two races with two different riders," sports director Carmen Small told GCN. "We couldn’t have asked for a better start."
"Our only goal this week was to work as a team for these three Mallorca races. That’s what we wrote down and that’s what we focussed on with the riders and the staff. That was the primary goal given that we’re a new team with so many new faces. Communication was another objective, so if we were doing all of that and not winning, we’d still have been happy," she said.
The team have bigger goals for the remainder of the season, including the Spring Classics and the Tour de France Femmes. "I hope that they can really learn from these early races and then take that into the rest of the season because we’ve definitely not tried to peak for these early season races. We’ve got our long-term goals but we’re still coming out of training camp."
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