The Lotto Soudal Ladies team has signed 25-year-old Danish rider Christina Siggaard from Team Virtue for the upcoming season following the dissolution of the Danish team at the end of this year. [2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and winner of the first stage of this year's BeNe Ladies Tour, Siggaard, a Classic specialist, said in a press release that she is excited to join the Belgian team.

"I love racing in Belgium. It brings out the best in me." I always knew that one day I would race for a Belgian team. There is no team I would rather go to next season than Lotto Soudal."

"I always feel excited when I race in Belgium. There are always a lot of spectators on the roadside at Belgian races, as well as family members and personal associates." Belgians are passionate about cycling, which I can relate to. Belgians take pride in their races. I love the spring classics, they are the highlight of my season." [This year's Tour de Flanders winner Marta Bastianelli has moved to Ale Cipollini, her Italian colleague Barbara Guarischi has moved to Movistar for 2020, and Norway's Emily Moberg has already signed with the Drops Cycling Team next year.

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Siggard said she hopes to continue to progress in the classics and has ambitions to improve her stage racing abilities with her new team.

"I'm a puncher," he said. I'm good on small climbs. I'm not a top sprinter, but I'm fast when I finish in a small group at the end of a hard race"

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"The spring classics, especially Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen, and Tour of Flanders are always my goals.

"I am looking forward to racing in the spring with my new team," Siggaard continued, "and in the future I hope to improve my time trial skills. In the future I would like to improve my time trial skills, as time trials give me an advantage in stage races."

She is in her final semester of nutrition and health studies and cannot fully recover from the concussion she suffered after crashing at the Tour of Norway in late August, but added that she hopes to "head south" before the New Year for some warm weather training.

"I crashed on the last stage of the race, and it was only after the Isberg GP a month later that it became clear I had a concussion. That kept me out of the World Championships, but I'm on the mend now.