All my posts that a probably race previews in some way.
Strade Bianche will be the first Women’s WorldTour race of the 2021 season. After 2020’s rescheduled race was held in the scorching heat, this year’s race is a return to normal. The current forecast is for an acceptable 11 degrees but also with some rain and showers about during the race. We’ve had a wet …
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Le Samyn des Dames returns in 2021 with a strong line-up. 7 of the 9 Women’s WorldTour teams will be attending, with only Canyon-SRAM and Team BikeExchange not racing. Le Samyn is known for its cobbled sections, which come into play as the race becomes attritional in its latter stages. You have to go back …
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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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The Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta was born in 2015 from the same idea that saw La Course become a part of the women’s calendar. With a big men’s grand tour taking place, there should be some event for the women’s peloton at the same time. Particularly in France where the women’s grand tour equivalents …
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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 Tour of Flanders is a tough race. Established in 2004, only a pair of riders have managed to win more than once – Mirjam Melchers & Judith Arndt. We’re currently on a streak of 11 different winners in 11 years. 8 of them are racing the 2020 Tour of Flanders so there’s a …
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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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The Women’s Brabantse Pijl (or Brabantse Pijl Dames Gooik) started out as the Pajot Hills Classic in 2016. It kept that name in 2017 but changed to its current name for the 2018 season. The new name is neater as the race runs alongside the men’s Brabantse Pijl as a Spring Classic in the Flemish …
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The women’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège belatedly takes place on Sunday 4th October 2020. Whilst the men’s race is known as The Old Lady in recognition of its beginnings in 1892, the women’s race started 125 years later – the young lady. The race follows a similar route to the men’s race, taking in the climbs of the …
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The 2020 Flèche Wallonne comes just a couple of days after the successful Imola World Championships. A strange quirk of the 2020 calendar given normally Flèche Wallonne takes place around 5 months beforehand. It also means we’re entering the next stage of the 2020 season – the Spring Classics! Or the Autumn Classics, or just …
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