The 2023 Baloise Ladies Tour sees 6 stages over 5 days as we get a rare split stage. An opening prologue will introduce some time gaps and whilst there are hills on Stage 1 and 2, they shouldn’t be decisive in the overall general classification.
RideLondon Classique History After a tumultuous off-season, RideLondon Classique returns in 2023 still just about as a Women’s WorldTour level race. Last year, only the final day’s stage was given live coverage, a decision that breached the rule about providing a minimum of an hour’s coverage per stage. The race effectively had its WWT status …
Zaaf Cycling will not be using its wildcard invitation for the 2023 La Vuelta Femenina which starts this Monday. The race mentioned that the team has declined its invitation in the end and that no new team will take their place. The teams were announced originally at the start of March 2023, with Zaaf Cycling …
A new race on the 2023 UCI calendar is the Tour de Normandie Féminin which jumps straight into the 2.1 race level and has managed to get a strong startlist for a new race. 4 Women’s WorldTour teams will be in attendance and strong non-WWT riders like Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Simone Boilard and Clara Koppenburg (although …
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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.
There isn’t much of a history of the Clasica de Almeria, mainly because it hasn’t been held before! There isn’t even a note of a national level race that this year’s event has risen up from. There is a men’s Clasica de Almeria and it’s no doubt come about as a result of the success of that race. Unlike the Vuelta CV Feminas which packed a serious punch
The new Spanish Continental team Zaaf Cycling announced its 2023 roster, including the French champion Audrey Cordon-Ragot. The former Trek rider was left without a team after the demise of the B&B Hotels project this off-season. She had agreed to leave Trek and join the team that was due to be based in her home …
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The Women’s Dwars Door Vlaanderen has been a UCI race since 2017 and a lower level race for 5 years before then too. The race has evolved over the years from a largely flat race with 1 or 2 major climbs to last year’s version which was a much tougher affair with 10 climbs
The GP Oetingen came into existence in 2021 but in reality is a revived race. It’s a new version of the old Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik race that was held between 2011 and 2018. The finishing circuit of that race has been largely reused for the GP Oetingen.
Table of Contents Bloeizone Fryslân Tour Race History The Bloeizone Fryslân Tour began life as the Energiewacht Tour in 2011 but is better known as the Healthy Ageing Tour in recent years. The changes in name reflect different sponsor agreements. The recent renaming is to represent the Fryslân area of the Netherlands. Bloeizone translates to …