A test before the Tour

+ the 2025 calendar has been revealed

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

The Tour de France Femmes might still be a while away but an important prep race is coming up this weekend in the form of Tour de Suisse. Top TDFF contenders including defending champion Demi Vollering and third place on GC in 2023, Kasia Niewiadoma, will be lining up tomorrow to face each other for one of the last opportunities to do so pre-Tour (and pre-Olympics). While their form at this race won’t exactly give the most accurate indication for August it will show who is looking on track and who has more work to do as well as serving to build hype for when the Grand Départ rolls around in two months’ time.

Elsewhere, the 2025 calendar has been released with some controversial changes (and still Vuelta in May and Giro in July 🫠) and MTB World Cup racing is back!

Enjoy the newsletter!

Amy x

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News 📰

• The 2025 Women's WorldTour calendar was released today.

• The 2025 Tour de France Femmes will feature a Grand Départ from Brittany and will be extended to nine days.

• Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is rumoured to be joining Visma | Lease a Bike next year.

• Ellen van Dijk has suffered an ankle fracture after being involved in a crash while on a training camp.

• Mischa Bredewold will be extending her contract with SD Worx - Protime until 2027.

• RideLondon Classique has been cancelled for 2025 after the UCI changed the dates in the WWT calendar with “no consultation or prior warning”.

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Read 🗞️

• Q&A: Ruby Roseman-Gannon on her dramatic first WorldTour win - Escape Collective

• Pushing Para Cycling Forward: Dr. Meg Fisher's Accomplishments Matter - Velo 

• 2025 introduction of women's ProTeams will narrow the professional gap - Escape Collective

• Team USA's Olympic hopes land on the shoulders of its female athletes - Cycling Weekly

• Pauline Ferrand-Prévot returns to a different sport than she left - Escape Collective

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Watch 📺

Puck Pieterse is back with her world cup course previews in Val di Sole.

 And you can check out the downhill course by following Myriam Nicole on track walk.

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Listen 🎧

This week, Abby is joined by Matilda Raynolds and DS for Liv AlUla Jayco, Shawn Clarke.

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Results 🏆

Road

Tour of Britain Women (2.WWT)

Stage 3: Lorena Wiebes (SDW)

Stage 4: Ruby Roseman-Gannon (LAJ)

Overall:

1. Lotte Kopecky (SDW)

2. Anna Henderson (GB)

3. Christine Majerus (SDW)

Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (2.1)

Stage 2: Marianne Vos (TVL)

Stage 3: Ally Wollaston (AGS)

Overall:

1. Marianne Vos (TVL)

2. Riejanne Markus (TVL)

3. Katrine Aalerud (UXM)

Dwars door het Hageland (1.1)

1. Lucinda Brand (LTK)

2. Thalita de Jong (LDL)

3. Karlijn Swinkels (UAD)

Flanders Diamond Tour (1.1)

1. Chiara Consonni (UAD)

2. Anniina Ahtosalo (UXM)

3. Kathrin Schweinberger (WNT)

Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées (2.1)

Stage 1: Vittoria Guazzini (FST)

MTB

🇦🇹 UCI MTB World Cup: Leogang, Austria DH #3

DH Junior: 🥇 Erice van Leuven 🇳🇿 🥈 Eliana Hulsebosch 🇳🇿 🥉 Heather Wilson 🇬🇧

DH Elite: 🥇 Valentina Höll 🇦🇹 🥈 Anna Newkirk 🇺🇸 🥉 Myriam Nicole 🇫🇷 

🇮🇹 UCI MTB World Cup: Val di Sole, Italy XCC+XCO #4 & DH #4 

XCC U23: 🥇 Kira Böhm 🇩🇪🥈 Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 🥉 Emily Johnston 🇨🇦

XCC Elite: 🥇Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱🥈Pauline Ferrand Prevot 🇫🇷🥉 Savilia Blunk 🇺🇸

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Upcoming races 📆  

Road

14th - 16th June: Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées (2.1)

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/Discovery+ from 14:15 CEST Saturday and 13:00 CEST Sunday.

15th - 18th June: Tour de Suisse Women (2.WWT)

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/Discovery+ from 10:50 CEST Saturday, 10:30 Sunday, and 15:00 CEST Monday and Tuesday.

• Startlist here.

• Preview here.

MTB

🇮🇹 UCI MTB World Cup: Val di Sole, Italy XCC+XCO #4 & DH #4

Saturday 15th June: DH Junior and Elite

How to watch:

• Junior: Live on Eurosport, Discovery+ or Staylive from 11:15 CEST.

• Elite: Love on Eurosport, Discovery+ or Staylive from 13:00 CEST.

Sunday 16th June: XCO U23 and Elite

How to watch:

• Elite: Live on Eurosport, Discovery+ or Staylive from 10:45 CEST.

🇨🇭 UCI MTB World Cup: Crans-Montana, Switzerland XCC+XCO #5

Friday 21st June: XCC U23

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Friday fun 🕺

Have you ever seen a cooler dog?

demivollering

A post shared by @demivollering

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That’s all 👋

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