{"id":47842,"date":"2024-10-11T08:21:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=47842"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T08:21:31","slug":"team-jayco-alula-goes-all-in-for-yates-at-il-lombardia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/team-jayco-alula-goes-all-in-for-yates-at-il-lombardia\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Jayco AlUla goes all in for Yates at Il Lombardia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Simon Yates<\/strong> will spearhead Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong>\u2019s ambitions for Il Lombardia<\/strong>, the final Monument of the season, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 32-year-old is aiming to improve on his fifth place from 2023 and he arrives at the race with some confidence after a strong outing at the recent Giro dell\u2019Emilia, where he finished in the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team that will race on the roads of Lombardy is a good mix of highly experienced riders and young stars ready to play their cards. Supporting Yates on the many climbs distributed along the route, will be double Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a stage winner Eddie Dunbar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to the climbing firepower will be Filippo Zana<\/strong> and the young Colombian Jes\u00fas David Pe\u00f1a<\/strong>. The team is completed by two very experienced riders in Alessandro De Marchi<\/strong> and Chris Juul-Jensen<\/strong>, plus the talent of 22-year-old neo-pro Davide De Pretto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known as the race of the falling leaves due to its autumn location on the calendar, Il Lombardia takes the riders from Bergamo to Como over 252km. It packs in six climbs across the route, including the iconic Madonna del Ghisallo and the Colma di Sormano, a 13km ascent that hits gradients of 13%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Jayco AlUla for Il Lombardia 2024:<\/span>
Alessandro De Marchi (ITA)
Davide De Pretto (ITA)
Edward Dunbar (IRL)
Chris Juul-Jensen (DEN)
Jes\u00fas David Pe\u00f1a (COL)
Simon Yates (GBR)
Filippo Zana (ITA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Yates:<\/strong><\/span>
“I expect a very hard-fought race that could heat up even far out from the finish line. Last Thursday, we did a recon of the final 90km of the race and the climb up from Lake Como is really challenging and represents, for those who have the strength, a good springboard towards Como. The Giro dell’Emilia gave me good feelings and I know my condition is good for this final part of the season. The competition is really strong, but I hope I can do better than last year’s result.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valerio Piva – Sport Director:<\/strong><\/span>
\u201cOn this new route, the 13km long Colma di Sormano climb will almost certainly be the key point of this edition. There will be just over 30km to the finish line after that and those who are not in front will have a hard time catching up. Our tactic will be very simple: the team will ride around our leader Simon Yates. Last Saturday, with his fifth place at the Giro dell’Emilia, he showed he is in good condition, and I am convinced that we will see him in the top positions at the finish line in Como too.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: KRAMON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simon Yates will spearhead Team Jayco AlUla\u2019s ambitions for Il Lombardia, the final Monument of the season, on Saturday. The 32-year-old is aiming to improve on his fifth place…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47850,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47842\/revisions\/47850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}