2022 Season Summary Another season and another 1st place in the women’s cycling rankings for SD Worx – their 6th in the last 7 seasons. Despite 11 Women’s WorldTour victories and that 1st ranked team status, 2022 wasn’t a year that possibly filled all expectations, however. Back in the Van der Breggen era, stage races …
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 …
SD Worx has signed Barbara Guarischi, formerly of Movistar, to their roster for the next 2 years. The Italian leaves Movistar after 3 seasons on the Spanish team. Guarischi started her 2022 season with a demotion for dangerous sprinting at the Vuelta CV Feminas. She swiped across the front of Chiara Consonni causing a crash. …
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Women’s European Championships Road Race History The European Championships is one that the Dutch national team have a strong hold over. They’ve won 5 of the 6 races that have taken place, with only Marta Bastianelli in 2018 the outlier. Strangely for such dominance, no rider has ever won more than once. The different parcours …
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Death, taxes and Marianne Vos winning bike races! She took her second win in two days in Scandinavia, and it should have been her second win in Sweden within a week if not for the disqualification at Vårgårda. Another long day saw the riders take on 153km between Orust to Strömstad on the Swedish stage …
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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.
After yesterday’s mishap, the pre-stage favourite Lorena Wiebes flew to a sprint victory today in Harlow. Wiebes won back-to-back stages of last year’s race and will have an opportunity to repeat that again tomorrow on Stage 3. Team DSM launched a successful lead-out that gave Wiebes the perfect positioning ahead of all of her rivals. …
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Table of Contents Le Samyn de Dames Race History Le Samyn des Dames started in 2012, it’s held on the same day and uses a fair amount of the same route as the men’s race. Until this year, it has always been a 1.2 categorised race (now a 1.1) and forms part of the Exterioo …
Table of Contents Vuelta CV Feminas Race History The Vuelta CV Feminas holds a position early in the calendar as one of the first sprint races of the year. It’s an easy way for sprinters to claim their first win of the season. Each of the 3 editions held so far has been a big …
The Baloise Ladies Tour has also been known as the BeNe Ladies Tour in the past. First run in 2014, that year’s race was won by Emma Johansson. Jolien d’Hoore finished 2nd that year before taking a pair of wins and Marianne Vos a pair of victories herself. Lisa Klein won in 2019, a year …
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