"Very curious to see how the level in the women's peloton will have risen" - Lotte Kopecky outlines early plans for 2024
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The women's road race world champion and one of the stars of the 2023 campaign, Lotte Kopecky has revealed some of her early plans for 2024.
“I am very curious to see how the level in the women's peloton will have risen again compared to last year,” the Belgian tells Het Laaste Nieuws. “I opt for a reasonably full spring, after which a not too intensive build-up towards the Olympic Games is on the program. After that, I hope to have something left for the World Championship in the autumn."
The Team SD Worx - Protime star took a number successes last spring including the Tour of Flanders and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. “The Tour, Paris-Roubaix, the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège," she says of her targets this year. "I am most looking forward to Roubaix, but I deliberately say the month of April because it is dangerous to put everything on one race.”
“At the end of April I will meet with the team management to see how we can best ensure the run-up to the Games. The team fully supports me in this," Kopecky concludes. "That I will be looked at a lot as world champion? That can only be to the advantage of my teammates.”
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