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<\/a>Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes – a 135.5 km road race, between Bastogne and Ans on April 23, 2017, in Liege, Belgium. (Velofocus).<\/span><\/p>\nCecilie Uttrup Ludwig played a great supporting role, finishing tenth and extending her lead in the youth classification of the UCI Women\u2019s WorldTour. Anna van der Breggen won the race ahead of teammate Elizabeth Deignan and Kasia Niewiadoma.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do feel like I have taken progressive steps with every race. Every race just went better than the rest,\u201d Moolman-Pasio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe big objective for me was to make it into the breakaway today, into the 4 or 5 that always seems to get away. With the two Boels riders there – Lizzie and Anna – it does make things really hard. There was a point of hesitation because on the second last climb, Kasia, Anna and myself actually got away. Lizzie managed to rejoin at the top and in the moment Kasia and I hesitated and that\u2019s when Anna took the opportunity and got away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall I am happy with how things are progressing, it\u2019s getting better every race. It\u2019s amazing to ride with this team. The level of commitment to each other and to the team goal is so inspiring. We started Amstel Gold with bad luck and not being in a great position and every race since then we have taken a step up. It\u2019s great to see our younger climbers getting closer and closer to being in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result today ends a highly successful spring campaign for the team. Victories include Dwaars door Vlaanderen, Gent Wevelgem and Setmana Ciclista Valenciana with more podiums in Trofeo Alfredo Binda and Healthy Ageing Tour. Lisa Klein won the best young rider competition in Healthy Ageing Tour while Uttrup Ludwig has held the lead in the UCI WWT youth classification since the first race, Strade Bianche.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy with the overall performance,\u201d team manager, Thomas Campana said after the race. \u201cThere was definitely a response to all our attacks on Wednesday. The good thing is that more and more teams were trying to attack in the first hour. There wasn\u2019t much recovery time so it was a really hard race.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cThe team doesn\u2019t have success because of one or two people. We have success because of the whole group. We can\u2019t complain about our spring campaign. It wasn\u2019t a big objective for us coming into the season. The main goal was to get the new group settled and to get everyone working together as a unit. The success we\u2019ve achieved is a sign of a team committed to working together for one goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team continues racing from 28 \u2013 30 April in Festival Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg. The roster will be released in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio continued her comeback from injury with an impressive sixth place in the first ever women\u2019s Liege Bastogne Liege on Sunday. With a top 10 in every Ardennes classic, the result today tops off a successful comeback from a hip fracture for the team leader. Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes – a 135.5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[588,1456,1455],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-ashleigh-moolman-pasio","tag-cervelo-bigla","tag-liege-bastogne-liege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}