2021 Season Summary The signing of Lotte Kopecky paid off big time. After losing the GOAT, Marianne Vos, they managed to go out and get a great replacement. Kopecky comfortably took the bulk of the team’s points, with most of her wins coming at non-WWT level explaining Liv’s higher ranking in the World ranking. The …
The Established Names Mikayla Harvey It’s been a bit of a tough follow-up season for Harvey. Changing teams, with a new pecking order, has seen chances limited for the young Kiwi. There have been some good results, like 5th in GC at the Tour de Suisse and top-10s dotted around. However, with Kasia Niewiadoma taking …
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The women’s Ronde van Drenthe has a higher profile than the men’s version. It’s one of the longest running top-level races in the women’s cycling calendar and the list of winners reads like a Who’s Who of women’s cycling since 2007. 5 World Champions have finished on the top step of Ronde van Drenthe but …
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Officially this race is just called the Women’s Tour, but with the Tour de France Femmes coming, it all feels just a little too vague. The Women’s Tour is another race affected by COVID last year, with no race taking place. This season’s race was postponed from its usual spot in June for the same …
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The Simac Ladies Tour is the new name for the Boels Ladies Tour in 2021. Boels pulled back from their sponsorship of the race at the same time as they reduced their involvement in the now SD Worx team. The sponsorship was ended positively, with Boels saying that their involvement in women’s cycling had been …
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2016 wasn’t that long ago but the world was very different. Pandemics were a history lesson for most and at the time of that year’s Gent Wevelgem, Britain hadn’t voted for Brexit yet. The cycling world was very different too. It’s tough now to imagine a WorldTour peloton without Wout van Aert and Mathieu van …
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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The SPAR Flanders Diamond Tour is the next round in the Lotto Cycling Cup, the year-long national competition in Belgium. The race is set at the 1.1 level, so a healthy amount of WorldTour talent can mix it up against domestic talents. It takes place around the town of Nijlen, situated just outside the major …
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Dwars Door de Westhoek takes place in the corner of Belgium, next to the French border, called Heuvelland. It’s the area most commonly associated with the Gent Wevelgem races. Starting and finishing in Boezinge, the riders are treated to 3 ascents of the Rodeberg before heading back into town. The Rodeberg is just under 1km …
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The Festival Elsy Jacobs is the first race to take place after the Spring Classics part of the season has come to a close. This race is a homage to Luxembourger Elsy Jacobs, the first-ever women’s world road race champion. The second stage is hosted by her own town of Garnich and the country is …
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