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A quick preview look at Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames 2024

This Binche-Chimay-Binche pour Dames is a late-season race that popped up at the UCI level after the Covid-affected 2020 season. Initially held at the lowest level 1.2 in 2021,...

A quick preview look at Choralis GP Fourmies Feminine Classic 2024

The GP Fourmies is a part of the late-season French one-day races that help to bring the season to a close after the hectic stage racing section. Last year's...

A quick preview look at Grote Prijs Beerens 2024

Looking at the parcours, the Grote Prijs Beerens feels like it should always come down to a bunch sprint. That hasn’t always been the case in its 3 years...

A quick preview look at Dwars Door de Westhoek 2024

Dwars Door de Westhoek is a reasonably flat race that should by all accounts be a sprint each year. But in 2023, Team DSM-Firmenich were able to buck that...

Bretagne Ladies Tour 2024 Race Preview

A very long-running race, the Bretagne Ladies Tour can trace its origins back to 1987 when Cecile Odin won. Since then, it’s always kept a low level but has just started to move up in the last couple of years after a patchy record since 2016. It only held one edition between 2017 and 2021, partly down to Covid but also just general troubles. It’s no longer a 2.2 race either but has reached 2.1 level in 2022.

A quick preview look at the GP Eco-Struct 2024

The GP Eco-Struct, a relatively new fixture in the professional cycling calendar, has rapidly evolved from a national-level race to a prominent UCI 1.1 event in 2020, since then...

Women’s Scheldeprijs 2024 Race Preview

A women's Scheldeprijs was first held coming out of the Covid pandemic. Lorena Wiebes won the first edition in 2021 and then doubled and trebled up in 2022 and 2023. Those results confirm that the women’s Scheldeprijs is very much like the men’s race.

Women’s Le Samyn des Dames 2024 Race Preview

Le Samyn des Dames approaches once again in 2024, marking the thrilling conclusion of an extended opening weekend in the cycling calendar. While Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Omloop van het Hageland set the stage on Saturday and Sunday, fans need only wait until Tuesday for another spectacle on the road.

Lotto Dstny Ladies confirm their 2024 line-up & major signing of Thalita de Jong

The Lotto Dstny Ladies Team is already gearing up for the 2024 season, just a week after wrapping up their 2023 campaign at the Binche-Chimay-Binche race. Remaining committed to...

Eline van Rooijen wins the Grote Prijs Yvonne Reynders

AG Insurance-NXTG U23 rider Eline van Rooijen scored her first UCI victory today at the Grote Prijs Yvonne Reynders. The 1.2 race, being held for the second time, fortunately,...

Julie de Wilde takes first win of the year at Flanders Diamond Tour

Belgian cyclist Julie De Wilde claimed victory in the SPAR Flanders Diamond Tour (1.1), outpacing Austrian Kathrin Schweinberger and Katrijn De Clercq in the final sprint. De Clercq is...

A quick preview look at Dwars Door de Westhoek 2023

This year's Dwars Door de Westhoek has been scaled back due to roadworks. The riders will tackle 12 laps of a 10km circuit that presents little challenge when it...