A slow week 🐌

+ new teams and transfers

Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🚴‍♀️

It’s been quite a slow one this week after all the excitement (pls, it wasn’t just me?) of track worlds last week. I’m having a lil bit of a week off so sorry that this intro is extremely short today!

I’m super excited about the guest on our podcast this week, it isn’t out yet but keep your eyes peeled because you’ll want to hear what she has to say!

That’s all for now.

Amy x

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News 📰

• Lots of news from the team formerly known as Roland Cogeas Edelweiss, who announced that their partnership with Israel Premier Tech will become title sponsorship - welcome Israel Premier Tech.

  • They also announced they will launch a development team, in line with the new UCI structures, which will operate at continental level. No line-up yet, but the team say they’ve signed riders from Afghanistan, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia.

  • And they finalised their 2023 roster, losing most of their existing riders (including Olga Zabelinskaya and Petra Stiasny) and signing nine new riders.

• There are some changes to report at The Cyclists’ Alliance: founding member Gracie Elvin will step down after five years on the Board of Directors, to be replaced by Leah Kirchmann. Ally Wollaston has also been elected as rider council representative, after Marianne Vos’s resignation.

• AG Insurance-NXTG have confirmed their U19, U23 and Elite line-ups for 2023, with lots of riders moving up a team and some new faces. 

• Marianne Vos will debut her cyclo-cross rainbow jersey for the first time at the race in Woerden in the Netherlands on Tuesday, before returning to the World Cup in Maasmechelen next weekend.

• A few more transfers to report:

  • Stars of the Canyon-SRAM Generation team Ricarda Baurnfeind and Antonia Niedermaier are stepping up to the WorldTour team next season.

  • SD Worx have signed an extra lead-out rider for Lorena Wiebes in the form of Italian veteran Barbara Guarischi. 

  • Veronica Ewers signed a long contract extension with EF Education-TIBCO-SVB - she’ll be with them for the next three seasons at least.

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Read 🗞️

• Former downhill world champion Manon Carpenter examines the true story behind the UK’s “natural" landscapes.

• Is track racing the antidote to BRF?

• How do bicycles empower women?

• Riders to watch at the Tabor cyclocross world cup.

• Ashleigh Moolman Pasio on what it was like to ride away from Annemiek van Vleuten and her future with AG Insurance NXTG.

• “Strong, versatile, independent - Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to skyrocket with Ineos Grenadiers.”

• “Women’s teams will struggle to fill race rosters under new rules, teams fear.”

• A Q&A with Alexandra Manly.

• Masomah Ali Zada on representing Afghan women at national championships: "It's an alarm clock for the world."

• Corey Coogan-Cisek blog for CyclingNews: The pros and cons of racing as an American in Belgium.

• Trans rider Austin Killips on making waves in the cyclocross world.

• A month after suffering a stroke, Audrey Cordon Ragot says “I have a career to finish.”

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Watch 📺

 

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Listen 🎧

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Results 🏆

Road

Chrono des Nations ITT

1. Ellen van Dijk (TFS)

2. Valeriya Kononenko (Ukraine)

3. Amber Neben (USA)

CX

UCI Cyclocross World Cup, Fayetteville 🇺🇸 (R2)

1. Fem van Empel 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Annemarie Worst 🇳🇱

Track

🌈 UCI World Championships, Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines 🇫🇷 

Individual sprint:

1. Mathilde Gros 🇫🇷

2. Lea-Sophie Friedrich 🇩🇪

3. Emma Hinze 🇩🇪

Omnium:

1. Jennifer Valente 🇺🇸

2. Maike van der Duin 🇳🇱

3. Maria Martins 🇵🇹

Individual pursuit:

1. Franziska Brauße 🇩🇪

2. Bryony Botha 🇳🇿

3. Josie Knight 🇬🇧

500m time trial: 

1. Taky Marie-Divine Kouamé 🇫🇷

2. Emma Hinze 🇩🇪

3. Guo Yufang 🇨🇳 

Madison:

1. Belgium (Shari Bossuyt and Lotte Kopecky) 🇧🇪 

2. France (Clara Copponi and Valentine Fortin) 🇫🇷

3. Denmark (Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth) 🇩🇰

Keirin: 

1. Lea-Sophie Friedrich 🇩🇪

2. Mina Sato 🇯🇵 

3. Steffie van der Peet 🇳🇱 

Points race: 

1. Neah Evans 🇬🇧 

2. Julie Leth 🇩🇰 

3. Jennifer Valente 🇺🇸

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Upcoming races 📆 

CX

23rd October: UCI Cyclocross World Cup, Tábor 🇨🇿 (R3)

• Juniors at 10.30 CEST

• Elite at 13.40 CEST

• Elite race live on Eurosport/GCN

• Entry lists here

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Friday fun 🕺

HBD to a legend:

Adam Tranter @adamtranter

Happy birthday to Eileen Sheridan, who is 99 today. Joining Coventry Cycling Club in 1944, Eileen went on to break just about every distance record there is, including setting the new London-Edinburgh record of 20h 11m 35s. The time was set in 1954 and is yet to be broken.

<<33 

thomas_maheux

A post shared by Thomas Maheux (@thomas_maheux)

 Loved this so much:

Col du Boremalet @2wheels2dex

Me: National anthems are dull Taky Marie-Divine Kouamé: Hold my bidon

Anna Mac @AnnamacB

@nedboulting Here you go. https://t.co/6HXKDYnj5j

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