'I want to face the unknown' - Elisa Longo Borghini lifts lid on major new goals for 2025 and beyond

Giro d'Italia 2024: Elisa Longo Borghini led the race from start to finish
Giro d'Italia 2024: Elisa Longo Borghini led the race from start to finish (Image credit: Getty Images)

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.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.