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Man, what a journey we've all experienced since the last Women's Tour Down Under. One of the few races held in early 2020 before the Covid pandemic kicked off properly, Australia's stringent rules since have prevented a return to international racing until now.

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...

The general classification was turned on its head on Stage 2 after the opening time trial. Annemiek van Vleuten attacks and went hard. That...

The 2022 Cycling World Championships take place from September 17th to 25th around the city of Wollongong, 80km south of Sydney in Australia. The...

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...

The Tour of Scandinavia has morphed from the Ladies Tour of Norway for 2022 after a successful run between 2014 and 2021. Originally hoped to incorporate the Vargarda races in Sweden, the organisers there eventually opted to remain separate.

With this year's Itzulia Women, women's racing in the Basque County has come full circle after quite a lot of change in recent years. We used to have the long-term staple of the Emakumeen Bira stage race which ran from 1988 to 2019. One of the major stage races, surprisingly given the climbing it was a race that neither Anna van der Breggen nor Annemiek van Vleuten ever actually won.

Liege Bastogne Liege Femmes is another relatively new race on the women’s calendar. First held in 2017, it gives riders the chance to cover roads raced by the men’s peloton in one of their monuments. Although the race is called Liege Bastogne Liege still, the women’s race starts in Bastogne and before heading to Liege.

La Flèche Wallonne Féminine or the Women’s Flèche Wallonne has been running since 1998. A relatively long history for a modern women’s cycling race. In its 20+ year history, the race has only seen 10 different winners. Anna van der Breggen has won Flèche Wallonne Féminine 7 times, Marianne Vos 5 times, with Fabiana Luperini and Nicole Cooke both 3-time winners.

This year's Women's Tour of Flanders saw Lotte Kopecky take the victory. For the Flandrian rider, this race was a huge target and with...