Australian road race champion Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott) said that the Giro Rosa being so close to this year's world championships may prove to be to her advantage in the revised 2020 UCI calendar She said.

The UCI released its proposed men's and women's calendars for the remainder of the 2020 season on Tuesday. The women's calendar will begin with the Strade Bianche on August 1 and end with the Madrid Challenge on November 6-8.

In between are arguably the two biggest events of the women's season, the Giro Rosa on September 11-19 and the UCI Road World Championships on September 20-27.

This week, Mitchelton-Scott's Australian men's time trial champion, Luke Durbridge, is concerned that the Tour de France and the world championships will overlap.

However, for road race contenders like Spratt, the week between the end of the Giro Rosa and the World Championship women's road race may work in their favor.

"It will be a challenge," Spratt admitted in a Mitchelton Scott press release this week.

"When you look at the timing of the Giro and the World Championships, it's exciting, but I think it's very, very close.

"It's uncharted territory for me. 'I usually go to high altitude and have training blocks,' he said."

"There's another week before the road race (Sept. 26), which is very hard and hilly," said Spratt, third in the 2019 World Championships road race and second in the 2018 road race. 'If the Giro course is quite tough, as it always is, it could be good preparation.'

A surprise addition to the revamped calendar is the women's edition of Paris-Roubaix, which will be held on October 25, the same day as the changed men's event. Spratt did not commit to competing in the inaugural women's Roubaix, but the 32-year-old was excited about the announcement about the cobbled classic.

"Just looking at Paris-Roubaix on the calendar makes me shiver and ache. 'It's the race the women's peloton has been craving. It's a very iconic race and I see no reason why we can't go there and put on a really good show. It's a big step forward and I'm really happy that ASO [the organizers] have taken that feedback on board."

Spratt may be forced to line up for the pavé, as half of the Mitchelton Scott team is currently at home in Australia or New Zealand, while Spratt is spending the closing period at his European base in Switzerland.

"As well as the health of the world, we have to wait and see if the returning athletes will be able to return to Europe. 'Ultimately, we have to pick our races a little bit at a time. [Strada Bianche and the Ardennes (Classics), as well as the Giro and the World Championships, are races that we have already set our sights on.