2021 Season Summary It seems strange that a team who finished 4th in the WorldTour rankings can only have 2 wins all season. One of those was Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s first Women’s WorldTour win at the Vuelta a Burgos and the other the French National Championship for Evita Muzic. 2nd at La Course and 5th …
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Over the years, some of the women’s teams have managed to put together the rosters of a super-team. This year’s SD Worx line-up is one of them and their dominance in the peloton is clear. Teams with major stars are able to take the bulk of the available wins and that feels like what SD …
Fleche Wallonne sees the riders take on the Mur de Huy once more. A climb that’s so steep and hard the race is almost always decided on the last ascent of its slopes. The race has been utterly dominated by Anna van der Breggen in recent times, who is on a run of 6 straight …
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The women’s Amstel Gold Race returns after a year off due to COVID-19. The race this year is heavily altered due to the pandemic but at least it gets to take place. The Cauberg remains, however many climbs have fallen by the wayside. The organisers have created a local loop that the women’s peloton will …
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The women’s Brabantse Pijl sees the Spring Classics move eastwards. The Flandrian part of the calendar is over and we’re only a few days away from seeing racing in the Ardennes region of Belgium and the Netherlands. The race begins at Lennik in Flemish Brabant before heading south, skirting around the bottom of Brussels. It …
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The women’s Gent Wevelgem has a little bit more history than many of the other Spring Classics in the women’s calendar. One of the first major spring classics to get a women’s race in modern times, the race has been held each year since 2014. As a new race, it spent 2 years at the …
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Omloop het Nieuwsblad is here, the start of the proper 2021 season and the introduction to the spring classics too. The first preview of the season is the hardest to write mind. Riders have changed teams, the form book is wide open and we have no idea who is raring to go! This year’s Omloop …
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Stage 2 of the 2016 Women’s Tour took place across Warwickshire and therefore on my local home roads. The stage started in Atherstone in the north of the county before winding its way southwards. The route clipped the Oxfordshire hills before heading across to Stratford upon Avon for a slightly uphill sprint finish. The lumpy …
The Women’s Driedaagse De Panne could turn out to be the last WorldTour race of the very odd 2020 season. The Madrid Challenge on 6-8th November is currently scheduled to go ahead but plenty are expecting it to not take place due to Covid. The Bretagne Ladies Tour is the only other race still on …
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The Women’s Gent Wevelgem is another one of those fairly recent additions to the women’s pro calendar. 2020 sees the 7th edition and so far, no rider has won it more than once. In addition to the Recent Winners list below, Lauren Hall won the first edition in 2014. Taking place over similar roads to …
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