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Women's Cycling
A brief history of the Simac Ladies Tour
For almost three decades, the Simac Ladies Tour developed into the Netherlands' leading women's stage race, growing from a relatively modest national event into...
Women's Cycling
Liv-Plantur team history: the transitional years of a major women’s cycling project
Liv-Plantur was not a short-lived standalone team. It was one name in the continuous history of the women’s programme now racing as Team Picnic...
Women's Cycling
Rabo Liv team history: from Dutch project to world-class results machine
Rabo Liv existed in its best-known form for only five seasons, but its influence stretches across modern women’s cycling.
Between 2012 and 2016, the Dutch...
Men's Cycling
Telekom team history: Germany’s Grand Tour machine and its layered legacy
Team Telekom was more than a successful cycling team. For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, it became the closest thing Germany had to...
Women's Cycling
Boels-Dolmans team history – inside the rise of a women’s cycling superteam
Boels-Dolmans did not just win races. It helped redefine what sustained excellence could look like in women’s cycling before the current SD Worx era...
Vuelta Femenina
A brief history of La Vuelta Femenina
La Vuelta Femenina has grown faster than almost any other major race in women’s cycling. What began in 2015 as a one-day circuit race...
Women's Cycling
A brief history of Dwars door Vlaanderen Women
Dwars door Vlaanderen Women has carved out an unusually clear role in the spring, and that is a big part of why the race...
Women's Cycling
2026 Vuelta a Extremadura Femenina Race Preview
There is a moment early in the Spanish spring when the road tilts upward, the time trial has already done its damage, and the...
Women's Cycling
Ellen van Dijk ends career in style with victory at 2025 Chrono des Nations
Ellen van Dijk brought her remarkable 20-year professional career to a perfect close with victory at the Chrono des Nations, winning her final race...
Women's Cycling
Shari Bossuyt takes emotional first victory after doping ban at 2025 Grand Prix de Wallonie Dames
The fourth edition of the Grand Prix de Wallonie Dames delivered a tense finale on the climb to the Namur Citadel, where Shari Bossuyt...
Women's Cycling
Lorena Wiebes takes fifth stage win & overall victory on Stage 6 of 2025 Simac Ladies Tour
The closing stage of the Simac Ladies Tour promised to be more than just a flat run-in to another sprint. At 156km, the route...
Women's Cycling
Simac Ladies Tour stage 5: Zoe Backstedt powers to time trial win; Wiebes holds overall lead
Zoe Backstedt confirmed her reputation as one of the peloton’s most exciting young time triallists by storming to victory in stage 5 of the...
