Elisa Longo Borghini has successfully won the Giro d'Italia Women twice but struggles in the Tour de France Femmes, experiencing health setbacks. Her challenges include an infection causing her withdrawal in 2023 and a crash affecting her ability to race in 2024. Despite these issues, she remains optimistic, focusing on a relaxed mindset rather than overall classification goals at the Tour. Instead, her focus is on being aggressive and seeking stage victories as she prepares for the upcoming race.
"The Tour de France has been a little bit my nightmare race these days," Longo Borghini told Cyclingnews last month. "In 2023, I didn't finish it because of an infection. In 2024, I eliminated myself before, because I crashed and I wasn't able to walk for five days."
"For a start, I'm here - I hope I also am going to be at the end and healthy. But yeah, I'm feeling OK, feeling ready," Longo Borghini told Cyclingnews in Vannes.
"The pressure is off after the Giro, and we are here hunting stages, not looking at GC, so I'm pretty happy to have this mindset," Longo Borghini commented.
"I just would like to race freely and be aggressive and opportunistic," she later added when asked what she was looking forward to about the race.
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