Women's Cycling

What Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026 means for the season

Franziska Koch did not just win Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026. She changed the shape of the women’s spring. Her victory over Marianne Vos and Pauline...

How women’s cycling team tactics work in today’s biggest races

Women’s cycling tactics make far more sense once you stop looking only at the rider who wins and start watching what her teammates are...

Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026: Franziska Koch outfoxes Marianne Vos to win head-to-head sprint

Franziska Koch took the biggest win of her career at Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026, beating Marianne Vos in a tense sprint inside the Roubaix velodrome...

Full start list for Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026

Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026 has the sort of start list that makes the race feel properly open. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot returns as defending champion, while former...

2026 Paris-Roubaix Femmes race preview: the pavé, the pressure and the race every Classics rider wants to win

Paris-Roubaix Femmes has already become one of the defining races of the women’s spring, a Monument built not around climbs or repeated accelerations, but...

Nicole Cooke – brilliance, conflict and the British rider who forced bigger questions

Nicole Cooke’s story does not fit neatly into the version of British cycling that later became easiest to package and celebrate. She was too...

Cervelo-Bigla team history – how one ambitious project helped reshape modern women’s cycling

Cervelo-Bigla is easiest to remember through its most visible years, but the fuller story starts much earlier. The team began in 2005, ran through...