Just a few days on from her third Trofeo Alfredo Binda victory, Elisa Balsamo is hoping to make it two big wins in a week as she leads Lidl-Trek at the revamped Milan-San Remo Women, a race she predicts to be hard but not outside of her capabilities.
Being the first women’s edition of the race in 20 years – six editions of the Primavera Rosa were run in the early 2000s – there are a lot of questions about what kind of riders might survive to contest the finish, but Balsamo hopes she can be one of them.
