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The Women’s Tour of Guangxi isn’t just the last women’s WorldTour race of the 2019 season, it’s the last women’s race on the calendar. Once the race on 22nd October is over, the dust can settle and the riders can relax – those with confirmed teams for 2020 that is. Should also add there’s a …
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It’s been a super wet week but somehow Saturday’s Women’s Elite World Championships stayed largely dry! A shower near the start didn’t dampen spirits and the run into the finish saw Annemiek van Vleuten take the rainbow jersey in the sunshine. The race saw an impressive 100km solo break by van Vleuten to win, staying …
The Boels Ladies Tour starts today. It begins with a tiny tiny prologue of 3.8km at the Tom Dumoulin BikePark in Sittard. It will create some time gaps. There’s only so much time you can gain in under 4km but the course is super technical. Almost resembling a cyclocross circuit, and has a short stretch …
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Saturday sees the Women’s WorldTour take on the GP de Plouay or the GP de Plouay – Lorient Agglomération Trophée WNT to give the race its full, catchy, made-up marketing name. There’s been 17 previous editions, with honours shared equally with 5 wins for the Netherlands and the UK. Only 2 previous winner has made …
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The 2019 European Championships were supposed to be somewhere else but it got taken off them and given last minute to Alkmaar back in April. I decided there and then that I was going to pay it a visit and here I am! The race was on by Amy Pieters from her breakaway companions Lisa …
This Saturday sees the women’s peloton visit London for the Prudential Ride London Classique. Unlike the men who get to leave London and visit some of the Surrey Hills, the women are confined to Green Park and St James’s Park. The backdrop will be good, a finish line on the Mall and several passes of …
Stage 4 of the 2019 Women’s Tour saw riders take on the race’s first-ever summit finish. Burton Dassett Country Park was the scene with a short steep slope tackled repeatedly before the final summit climb. The race started in Warwick before heading out to the nearby Burton Dassett slopes. It’s an area I once lived …
The 2019 Ovo Energy Women’s Tour (of Britain) starts on 10th June in the Suffolk town of Beccles. It then traverses across the middle of the UK, working its way down to Essex, across to Oxfordshire, a tiny burst north to Warwickshire and then heads west, where it spends 2 days in Wales. The end …
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The Emakumeen Bira is one of the oldest continually running Women’s stage races. It’s taken place each year since 1988 in the Basque region of Spain. For 2019, the time trial is gone – replaced instead with more climbing. The first stage is lumpy but expected to finish in a bunch sprint. The start of …
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