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Over the years, the women's Classic Lorient Agglomération Trophée Ceratizit, also known as the GP de Plouay, has grown into a prestigious fixture on the women's professional cycling calendar. This French race has garnered significant attention for its challenging course that threads through the undulating Breton landscape.

The Tour of Scandinavia was born out of the Ladies Tour of Norway that ran from 2014-2021, the idea was created to make the race a wider Scandinavian one. Initially called the Battle of the North, in the wake of the war in Ukraine it was renamed to the Tour of Scandinavia. It was supposed to include the racing in Vårgårda as well for its Swedish elements but eventually that organisation pulled out last year.

It has been a whole year since Annemiek van Vleuten surprised the front group late on in Wollongong to take potentially the final rainbow jersey of her long career. We've been treated to the Dutch star in the white jersey with the rainbow colours for all of the 2022 season

The 2023 Tour de France Femmes is now done and in the record books. Demi Vollering took her first victory after dominating the upper...

On paper, Stage 3 of the Vuelta Femenina looked like the easy day of the race. No real climbs to worry about, the longest...

Demi Vollering completed the much anticipated Ardennes Triple, the first since Anna van der Breggen won all 3 races back in 2017. The Dutch...

Another powerful display from Demi Vollering saw her crest the Mur de Huy as the fastest rider and secure her second major win in...

The history of the Women's Amstel Gold Race is very much in two parts. An initial race was held between 2001-2003 (won by Nicole Cooke, Leontien van Moorsel and Debby Mansveld), reaching the highest-level Women's World Cup set of races in its final year of that run.

The last couple of years of the women's Brabantse Pijl have centred on Demi Vollering. The Dutch rider infamously celebrated just a moment too soon in 2021. With her arm already aloft in victory, Ruth Winder took the slenderest of victories on the finish line photo for one of the American's final big wins.

A Women's Tour of Flanders goes back to 2004, where the race immediately joined the top-level Road World Cup. From there, it's pretty much been a who's who of women's cycling on the winner's list. World champions, grand tour winners and more, every name is heavily linked to women's cycling with no surprises like say Jacky Durand on the men's list.