The Norwegian Vita Heine, with experience in the Olympic Games and four-time champion of her country, is the most striking signing of the Massi-Tactic UCI Women’s Team, which incorporates five new foreign cyclists and retains names with a great future as Mireia Trias, Mireia Benito or Martina Moreno. The CC Baix Ter team, the only professional in Catalonia, will have five new runners next season in the elite because, apart from Vita Heine, the club has also confirmed the additions of the Slovenian Spela Kern, l the Dutch Maaike Coljé, the British Emma Grant and the Canadian Olivia Baril. With these five reinforcements, the Girona team closes the remodeling of the team and, in addition to the 7 renewals announced last week, the team will have 12 girls.
The new reinforcements will expand the payroll of foreign runners of the Massi-Tactic, which had already renewed the Canadian Gabrielle Pilote-Fortin and the Paraguayan Agua Marina Espinola. Mireia Benito from Tarragona, Mireia Trias from Empordà, Martina Moreno from Osona, Patri Ortega from Barcelona and Belén López from Cádiz complete the team led by Manel Gonzalo and Àngel González, who will start the season in January.
“In Spain we are far from the sporting performance of women’s cycling in the rest of Europe. Here, we have many UCI cycling teams and much of the cake is taken away by Movistar. We have great runners and future promises that will win UCI races, like Mireia Benito, Mireia Trias and Martina Moreno, but we have to be realistic. Our resource as a small team that we are in the budgetary field is to go and look for runners abroad who are looking for the opportunity to compete in UCI races “, explains the president of the CC Baix Ter, Sergi Güell, who believes in new faces that “Vita Heine and Spela Kern have a great European background and will fight to lead the international races. Maaike Coljé comes from a regional team that is not a UCI and has been cycling for two years. And Emma Grant and Olivia Baril have experience in international racing with races outside of Europe, have shown their level in American racing and are now looking for an opportunity in Europe
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