Women's Cycling

Omloop van het Hageland 2026: full history, winners, route profile and race-day contenders

Omloop van het Hageland has a very specific way of making riders look uncomfortable. Not because there is one giant climb or one famous...

Beginner’s guide to Itzulia Basque Country 2026

Itzulia Basque Country 2026 runs from 6 to 11 April and, for anyone new to the race, the first thing to understand is that...

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg: the full story of one of women’s cycling’s great sprinters and team-builders

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg was one of the defining sprinters of her generation and remains one of the most important figures in modern women’s cycling through...

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Women 2026: Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney turn the Muur into a two-up Classic as Wiebes wins the sprint behind

Opening Weekend did not need easing in. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Women delivered the full dose of wet roads, crosswinds, cobbles and late-race panic that...

Demi Vollering’s 2026 race programme

Demi Vollering’s 2026 calendar is not subtle. It is the programme of a rider and a team aiming at the biggest one-day races of...

Juliette Berthet’s 2026 spring and Grand Tour programme

Juliette Berthet’s 2026 calendar has a very clear logic to it. This is not the programme of a rider being asked to cover every...

Shari Bossuyt’s 2026 spring Classics programme

Shari Bossuyt’s 2026 spring looks like the programme of a rider being pointed firmly at the northern Classics rather than asked to drift between...

2026 Women’s Omloop het Nieuwsblad Race Preview

There is a moment every year when the women’s peloton rolls out of Gent and the noise changes. The hum of early-season racing gives...