At first glance and without thinking about it too much, Elisa Longo Borghini's decision to leave a team like Lidl-Trek, where she has shone so brightly for the last six years, feels borderline incomprehensible.
But while that's exactly what she has now done, and with a respectably long new contract as well, switching to UAE Team ADQ for the next three seasons, it turns out Longo Borghini only needs the briefest of explanations for her imminent departure to a new team to make complete sense.
