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Continues: Chiara Consonni won the Philadelphia Cycling Classic Women on a circuit that hi…
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Consonni's two-year extension through 2028 isn't Canyon-SRAM cashing in on a Philadelphia win — it's a bet on a gap in her game. Rolf Aldag flagged sprint lead-out positioning, not raw speed, as the thing the team wants to fix.
Aldag said Canyon-SRAM can unlock more from Consonni if they deliver her into decisive sprint positions more consistently — an explicit admission that support, not ability, has been the limiting factor. That reframes the Philadelphia result: her second win of 2026 came in a photo finish after the repeated Manayunk Wall climbs, exactly the kind of hard, chaotic sprint that better lead-out discipline would sharpen further. Consonni herself pointed past results too, saying she brings belief and motivation to the team and wants teammates to trust her as much as she trusts them — the extension reads as an investment in that structural role as much as her legs.

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