Team DSM’s Pfeiffer Georgi soloed away to victory after her well-timed attack created confusion in the ranks of the, then mainly, sprinters in the rest of the front group. With no rider prepared to bury themselves to catch Georgi, only to see their rivals sprint past, the Brit was able to just push on up …
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The GP Oetingen is a relatively new one day race, with only 2 previous editions. It is an adapted version of the old Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik race, which covered some of the same roads in the area around the finish of Omloop het Nieuwsblad.
Le Samyn des Dames is the delayed third race of an elongated opening weekend. Whilst Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Omloop van het Hageland take place on Saturday and Sunday, we only have to wait until Tuesday for another big race. Relatively flat but with a couple of short steep climbs
The UAE Tour Women kicked off today with a relatively steady flat stage that was always expected to come down to a sprint finish. The early-season nervousness saw a good number of crashes as wind and wide roads combined to create a twitchy peloton. A couple of times echelons were threatening to split up the …
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Italian Arianna Fidanza got her 2023 season off to a flying start with a sprint victory at the Women Cycling Pro Costa De Almería. Racing for Ceratizit-WNT for the first time, Fidanza was able to outsprint the likes of Emma Norsgaard, Audrey Cordon-Ragot and Eugenia Bujak after around 135km of racing. It’s Arianna Fidanza’s first …
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The first UCI-level edition of the Women Cycling Pro Costa de Almería takes place on 29th January 2023. Held at the 1.1 level, it’s a jump up for the race that was a national level race in 2022, won by Aranza Villalon. 16 teams are due to take part in this race with 4 of …
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2022 Season Summary After a long solid time as Rally Cycling and Optum, the first season in the Women’s WorldTour as Human Powered Health was pretty brutal. The team attacked plenty but it didn’t really translate into strong finishes for the most part. The team finds itself in a very worrying spot for retaining its …
With only a week to go until the transfer window shuts for Women’s WorldTour teams, it’s safe to say that all but the latest of deals are still to be completed. We’ve seen some monster transfers take place and whilst some teams have had a bunch of riders move on there are a few teams …
The Simac Ladies Tour is the only Women’s WorldTour stage race in the Benelux this season. Formerly known as the Boels Ladies Tour, the race takes us across most of the Netherlands from the below sea-level areas to the hills of Limburg. The addition of a time trial will give the WWT peloton only its 2nd of the season
Each season, a whole host of riders are out of contract and potentially change teams. We’re currently at the point where some riders have confirmed their moves or renewals but many are still unknown. That means some big-name riders are currently ‘available’ that could improve any team in the peloton. Some of them we know …
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