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  "description": "The AG Insurance-Soudal rider had a breakthrough ride at Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2025, but she wants more.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T18:41:59.000Z",
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  "textContent": "AG Insurance-Soudal, Cor Vos\n\nAfter only five editions, Paris-Roubaix Femmes has become a highlight of the women's calendar. There's something about the unpredictability, the spectacle, and the fact that there is nowhere to hide that makes the race stand apart from the rest of the Spring Classics. For Letizia Borghesi, the 2025 edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes changed her career.\n\n\"[Paris-Roubaix] has a special place in my heart,\" the AG Insurance-Soudal rider told _Escape Collective._ \"I was second, but my big goal is to be able one day to win that race. But not only Roubaix, for me, in general, the Classics, above all, Flanders and Roubaix are races where I really want to bring home something big.\"\n\nBorghesi, who races cyclocross in the winter, loves the spring races because of all the reasons Paris-Roubaix stands out. The weather, the chaos; she thrives in it.\n\n\"The one-day Classics are my favourite races; I always cannot wait for this time of year,\" she said, with a smile. \"I think these races really suit me as a rider ... I can repeat the same efforts a lot of times without dropping power, and at the end of hard races is where I can show my value.\"\n\nBorghesi has been racing bikes for most of her life. She started with the Italian Servetto-Footon team in 2016 before moving on to EF Education-TIBCO-SVB in 2022. When the team changed ownership and became EF Education-Oatly, she went with them. It was around that time that she really started to make an impact on the road scene, especially in the Classics. In 2022, her first year in the WorldTour, she managed a ninth at Norkere Koerse and eighth at Scheldeprijs, but didn't finish Paris-Roubaix. It was her first time taking on the Hell of the North.\n\n20-year-old Borghesi with Marianne Vos at the 2019 Giro d'Italia\n\nShe's been back every year since then. In 2023, she finished 53rd and she was 13th in 2024, but last year was when everything came together. Borghesi finished an incredible second, 58 seconds behind Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and three seconds ahead of Lorena Wiebes in third.\n\n\"That day, it was crazy because I felt so strong that I broke the wheel on the fourth sector of cobbles, and I was in the third group, and then I came back, and then I was behind the crash,\" she explained. \"I came back again with Pauline, and then she went away. There, the race was hard, but I still had a little bit to play the final. So then I just went for it.\"\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Letizia Borghesi may be Italian, but she loves Classics weather",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-09T18:42:02.236Z"
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