Worlds weekend one

+ team Tashkent is over and Sky Schneider is coming back

Hello lovely subscribers and welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🚴‍♀️

Apologies for the fact that last week’s intro abruptly ended mid-sentence 😵‍💫:

I wrote it out on my notes app on a flight and I thought I’d finished it off so I simply copied and pasted it into Substack when I had wifi again after I’d landed. Evidently I got distracted mid-sentence and it wasn’t the coherent intro I thought I’d nailed 🥲 — and if that isn’t a metaphor for how everyone in cycling feels at this time of year then idk what is.

Of course, there are still plenty of motivated people out there including those who are going after world champs in Zurich starting this weekend! Who’s going to take the ITT title on Sunday?

Can’t wait to find out!

Aaaaand before I go I want to wish a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to WCW’s very own Lulah, without whom the cogs of this chaotic newsletter would cease to turn! 🎈🎂🥳

Enjoy,

Amy x

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News 📰

• Tashkent City Women has closed with immediate effect.

• Skylar Schneider will return to the WorldTour peloton in 2025 with SD Worx - Protime.

• Elise Chabbey will move to FDJ-SUEZ next season.

• Chloé Dygert has signed a two year contract extension with Canyon-SRAM, while Antonia Niedermaier and Ricarda Bauernfeind have both extended by one year.

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Read 🗞️

• ‘I thought a KOM was a Strava segment!’ Clara Emond – the lawyer who became a Grand Tour stage winner - Rouleur 

• How Lael Wilcox Kept Her Bike Rolling While Riding Around the World - Velo

• Grace Brown is ready for her last attempt at the rainbow jersey - Escape Collective

• UCI Road World Championships 2024 - Junior Women ITT contenders - Cyclingnews

• Zurich Road World Championships 2024 individual time trial contenders - Rouleur

• UCI Road World Championships 2024 - Junior Women's Road Race contenders - Cyclingnews 

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Listen 🎧

Kasia Niewiadoma discusses the Tour de France Femmes and her goals for the future

  Catch up on the European Championships with Wheel Talk

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Results 🏆

Road

European Championships, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪

Elite RR: 🥇 Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 🥈 Elisa Balsamo 🇮🇹 🥉 Daria Pikulik 🇵🇱

Elite RR: 🥇 Puck Langenbarg 🇳🇱 🥈 Messane Bräutigam 🇩🇪 🥉 Štpánka Dubcová 🇨🇿

GP d'Isbergues (1.1)

1. Maaike Boogaard (AGS)

2. Victoire Berteau (COF)

3. Alba Teruel (LKF)

Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region (1.Pro)

1. Eleonora Gasparrini (UAD)

2. Lieke Nooijen (TVL)

3. Mareille Meijering (MOV)

St Feuillien Grand Prix de Wallonie (1.1)

1. Karlijn Swinkels (UAD)

2. Elisa Longo Borghini (LTK)

3. Anouska Koster (UXM)

Chrono de Gatineau (1.1) 

1. Franziska Brauße (WNT)

2. Nadia Gontova (DNA)

3. Marta Jaskulska (WNT)

AG Tour de la Semois (2.2)

1. Cat Ferguson (MOV)

2. Maëva Squiban (ARK)

3. Karlijn Swinkels (UAE)

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Upcoming races 📆  

Road

Saturday 21st September: Tour de Gatineau (1.1)

🌈 World Championships: Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Saturday 21st September: Mixed Handbike Team Relay

How to watch:

• Live on Discovery+ from 17:05 CEST.

Sunday 22nd September: B & C4-5 ITT and Elite ITT

How to watch:

• Para-cycling: Live on Discovery+ from 9:50 CEST.

• Elite: Live on Discovery+ from 11:50 CEST.

Tuesday 24th September: Junior ITT, C1-3 & H3-5 ITT and H1-2 & T1-2 ITT

How to watch:

• Junior: Live on Discovery+ from 8:20 CEST.

• Para-cycling: Live on Discovery+ from 10:50 CEST.

Wednesday 25th September: B ITT and Mixed Relay

How to watch: 

• Para-cycling: Live on Discovery+ from 10:35 CEST.

• Mixed Relay: Live on Discovery+ from 13:50 CEST.

Thursday 26th September: H1-5 RR and Junior RR

How to watch: 

• Para-cycling: Live on Discovery+ from 8:50 CEST.

• Junior: Live on Discovery+ from 10:00 CEST.

Friday 27th September: T1-2 RR

How to watch:

• Live on Discovery+ from 10:50 CEST.

MTB

🇺🇸 UCI MTB World Cup: Lake Placid, USA XCC+XCO #7

Friday 27th September: XCC U23

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Friday fun 🕺

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