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 …
Cycling documentaries are a big thing at the moment. Movistar had their Netflix one which gave us insights into some of the behind-the-scenes fun of the Spanish team. Jumbo-Visma also produced one of their recent Tour de France which they showed via their website with a ticketing system. Soudal Quick-Step will get in on the …
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The South African Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio won the 2nd stage of the Tour de Romandie in impressive fashion. The SD Worx rider was able to ride away from Annemiek van Vleuten on the long climb to Thyon 2000. As a result, Moolman-Pasio took over the lead in the GC battle. The peloton took on 100.4km which …
Annemiek van Vleuten took her 2nd World Championship road race victory in Wollongong with an impressive last-ditch effort that caught the other riders unaware. Attacking in the final 700 metres with the race heading for a sprint, Van Vleuten wasn’t picked up by the other riders and was able to give everything she had to …
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The Women’s World Championships road race had been dominated by Dutch riders in recent years, with 4 in a row between 2017 and 2021. Elisa Balsamo broke that run last year in Flanders by being able to outsprint Marianne Vos to the line. Such is the Dutch dominance in women’s cycling
Ellen van Dijk took her 3rd world championship in the time trial this morning. The Dutch rider was the quickest on the circuit in Wollongong, the host city in Australia of the 2022 Cycling World Championships. For Van Dijk, it’s a 2nd win in 2 years, after also winning last year’s edition in Flanders. Her …
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The Women’s World Championships Time Trial has gone back and forth in recent years, with only Annemiek van Vleuten able to do consecutive victories in the last 10 years. Ellen van Dijk is the only other multiple winner in that time, winning in 2013 and last year’s 2022 edition.
Team SD Worx looks strong for the 2022 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta that starts on Wednesday 7th September. The Dutch team heads to Spain with a team of: Marlen Reusser, Lotte Kopecky, Anna Shackley, Niamh Fisher-Black, Blanka Vas and Demi Vollering. For Demi Vollering, the Ceratizit Challenge is going to be her first race …
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Switzerland has announced who it will be taking to Australia to take part in this year’s World Championships. The team for the road race is a mixture of big names from the road, time trial specialists and mountain biker riders. There are no spots for the likes of Jolanda Neff, who after a mountain bike …
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The Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta has had quite a developmental history. Originally a one-day race in Madrid that saw sprinters take victories, it has slowly grown into the 5-day race that it is this year. A team time trial was added to the sprint stage in 2018