Another low-vol edition 🪫
+ we want you to grill us!
Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🚴♀️
I hope everyone’s had a lovely week! I’m in the UK and it’s 4pm and it’s already going dark wth?????
In case you missed Wednesday’s paid subscriber-only content, in it we introduced this week’s podcast guest, El Jaskowska. El is the founder of School of Rocks, a fun, women-led initiative that aims to make off-road riding more accessible. Click here to listen! And if you don’t want to miss out on any of our subscriber-only content then you can sign up here:
Anyway, although we said last week that we might take the newsy back to an every-other-week kinda thing for a bit what we didn’t think about was that there’s only this week left and then next week is the TWO YEAR anniversary of WCW!!!!
So seeing as next week is party time for WCW 🎈we thought we’d do something a lil different and ask you, the lovely subscribers, to ask us ANYTHING you like for a special edition!
So, if you have a q for us then either reply to this email or leave a comment!
If you don’t have any burning questions for us or you can’t think of anything at all (seriously, it can be Tilda’s fav ice cream flavour, legit anything) then don’t worry because we’ll be bringing some other ✨special content✨ for you.
Until then,
Amy x
News 📰
Bike brand Liv have renewed their sponsorship of the Tour de France Femmes white jersey for best young rider.
Annemiek van Vleuten has stated her intention to target the Giro-Tour double again next year.
Lizzie Holden is a last-minute addition to the UAE Team ADQ roster for 2023 — moving from Le Col Wahoo. The 25-year-old from the Isle of Man is making the step up to the WWT for the first time.
Silvia Persico will start her cyclocross season later this month in her native Italy before racing her first World Cup in Val di Sole in December. The Italian, who was third at the world championships this year, says she is excited to race against Pauline Ferrand Prevot.
Chantal van den Broek Blaak announced that she is pregnant:
The Zwift Academy finals get underway from this weekend, with five female finalists competing for a place on Canyon//SRAM. The finals will once again be filmed for a GCN series to be released later. Here is a full list of finalists with some info on each.
With most WWT rosters full, Human Powered Health are looking for a fourteenth rider.
Women’s cycling legend, Fabiana Luperini will take up a director role at the men’s team, Corratec.
Read 🗞️
Kasia Niewiadoma: ‘Knowing that I didn’t win anything this season upsets me’
An interview with Lorena Wiebes originally published in Rouleur’s ‘Inspiration’ issue.
Undaunted Mentorship launches training and mentorship program for aspiring female road cyclists.
American cross rider Corey Coogan Cisek blogs about life in Belgium.
Watch 📺
A panel from this year’s Rouleur Live featuring Marjolein van’t Geloof of Le Col Wahoo, Kate Veronneau of Zwift, and Lizzy Banks of EF Education First Tibco.
Listen 🎧
Our interview with El Jaskowska, founder of School of Rocks 🤘
Payson McElveen interviews Veronica Ewers (thanks to Dyfrig Williams for this rec!)
Results 🏆
CX
🇪🇺 UEC European Cyclocross Championships, Namur 🇧🇪
Elite:
Fem van Empel 🇳🇱
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱
Blanka Vas 🇭🇺
U23:
Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱
Line Burquier 🇫🇷
Shirin van Anrooij 🇳🇱
Superprestige Niel 🇧🇪
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱
Denise Betsema 🇳🇱
Inge van der Heijden 🇳🇱
Upcoming races 📆
CX
13th November: UCI Cyclocross World Cup, Beekse Bergen 🇳🇱
Elite race at 13.40 CET
Live on GCN+/Eurosport
Start list here
19th November: Superprestige Merksplas 🇧🇪
Elite race at 13.40 CET
Live on GCN+/Eurosport
Friday fun 🕺
Honestly couldn’t find anything cycling-related so here’s some actual footage of me this eve:
That’s all 👋
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Amy and Tilda x
I'm late to the party, but I do have a question- what do you all see as the areas where women's cycling journalism has the most room to improve? What would that look like? And when will Amy truly get to dive into long-form writing and Tilda into a serial-style podcast? WCW dominance is on the horizon. Or perhaps it's already here!
Off topic but current events, I am thinking of you both in light of the CT layoffs of key staff and the numerous expressions of hurt and disappointment. I just want to express our support for the cycling journalism you provide at WCW, CT, etc.
Is canceling CT membership a good demonstration of support or a childish tantrum that only hurts those that remain? I threw my bottle out of the crib, but now I want it back :(