{"id":49738,"date":"2025-03-06T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=49738"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:17:50","slug":"climbing-strength-liv-alula-jaycos-weapon-at-strade-bianche-with-garcia-smulders-trinca-colonel-providing-multiple-cards-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/climbing-strength-liv-alula-jaycos-weapon-at-strade-bianche-with-garcia-smulders-trinca-colonel-providing-multiple-cards-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing strength Liv AlUla Jayco&#8217;s weapon at Strade Bianche with Garcia, Smulders &#038; Trinca Colonel providing multiple cards to play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Liv AlUla Jayco<\/strong> head to <strong>Strade Bianche <\/strong>with a team of riders all ready to take on the race, bringing their individual strength and climbing talent to give the squad multiple cards to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former second place finisher at the iconic race, <strong>Mavi Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, brings experience and climbing prowess to the squad and will be joined by<strong> Monica Trinca Colonel<\/strong>, who recently showed herself to be among the strongest climbers after an impressive fourth-place finish overall at the UAE Tour, her debut race in Liv AlUla Jayco colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together the duo will have the young New Zealand climber <strong>Ella Wyllie<\/strong> and promising Dutch talent <strong>Silke Smulders<\/strong> for company, with Smulders displaying her early season form at the Tour Down Under with a solid second place on the GC. <br><br>Swede <strong>Caroline Andersson<\/strong>, whose experience in cyclocross should be very useful, will line-up along with Australian <strong>Amber Pate<\/strong>, a true early breakaway specialist, who completes the well-rounded team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2025, the women\u2019s race will cover 136km taking in a total of 50km of gravel roads, including a new gravel sector, with several riders set to be the protagonists along the undulating Tuscan roads before the grand finale in Sienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Liv AlUla Jayco at Strade Bianche:<\/span><br>Caroline Andersson (SWE)<br>Mavi Garcia (ESP)<br>Amber Pate (AUS)<br>Silke Smulders (NED)<br>Monica Trinca Colonel (ITA)<br>Ella Wyllie (NZL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monica Trinca Colonel:<\/strong><br><em>\u201cIt\u2019s my second time at the Strade Bianche and I have to say that I can\u2019t wait to get to the start. Last year I came in 38th, but it was a race that I really enjoyed. I started riding on a mountain bike and I immediately felt at ease on the gravel roads of Tuscany. I\u2019m well prepared and I hope to repeat the good performance of the UAE Tour.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gene Bates (Sports Director):<\/strong><br><em>\u201cIt will be a very tough day. Every edition of the Strade Bianche has given us a very selective race and this year will be the same. I don\u2019t think the new gravel sector will be decisive, but it will certainly make the race even tougher. I think we have a great team for this race. We don\u2019t have a designed leader, but we can count on a strong climbing group with Mavi, Silke, Monica, Caroline and Ella who have the ability to go really deep into this race. The strength of our team is having multiple riders who can go on the attack in the final hour of racing.\u201d<\/em><br><br>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liv AlUla Jayco head to Strade Bianche with a team of riders all ready to take on the race, bringing their individual strength and climbing talent to give the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49740,"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\/49738"}],"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=49738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49747,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49738\/revisions\/49747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}