The 23-year-old Swiss champ and Olympian credits her 2024 success to the spirit that she and her teammates built at team camps and races right through the year and wants to keep their momentum rolling.

“The atmosphere in this team is really special and something I've never experienced in a team before,” Noemi says. “The riders and staff – everyone works so well together. It doesn't feel like we are working colleagues. We are friends. I think that makes a huge difference, especially for me. I feel so welcomed in the team. The atmosphere is always good. It makes it a lot easier to perform when you are surrounded by good people.”

Noemi proved that this year. She started her season with a big win at the Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi in Mallorca and kept pushing hard to the end of the year. Her win at the Swiss road race championship and seventh place at her first Olympics are her proudest achievements, but it was the way that the team came together when the going got tough at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift that really convinced her that this is the squad for her.

“We had some highs and lows, but we kept a good positive vibe and kept working together,” Noemi says. “Those moments when everything might not be going well, but you still have good people and a strong team around you make all the difference. This year, I got a lot of support from the team. They gave me the opportunity to race the finales and also to make a lot of mistakes. That's also really important, because otherwise you don't learn. The team gave me a lot of confidence and I think that's what I needed. It means a lot when the team puts trust in me.”

Noemi is excited to put the lessons she learned this year into action when the racing season kicks off again next spring. She is still figuring out what kind of bike rider she could be. She has the kick to win bunch sprints and the staying power to get over hard climbs, as she proved at this year’s world championships in Zurich.

“Noemi is a really strong classics rider with a good sprint who can survive a lot of climbs,” says EF-Oatly-Cannondale general manager Esra Tromp. “She is also a really good teammate who is happy to work for others. She made a big step coming to this team this year and got opportunities to be the leader. I'm really happy that we can continue working together to help her step into a leadership role even more in the future.”

The most important thing Noemi has learned is to keep dreaming big, never limit herself, and brush off the pressure.

“I don't doubt too much and am willing to just try now,” she says. “If it works, it works. And if it doesn't work, then you learn from it. It is important to have fun with racing. I think that's the most important thing. You don’t want to focus too much on the performance or put pressure on yourself. We ride our bikes because we love it. If you have fun, the performance will come automatically. I'm quite a punchy rider, so I like the classics, especially the races in Flanders with explosive climbs. I really want to do well there, but also in races like Liège. After the Liège Tour stage, I fell in love with that course. I see myself doing well in those kinds of races, Amstel as well. I want to win classics.”

Next year is going to be fun. Here’s to a very successful future with EF-Oatly-Cannondale, Noemi!