Hello again 👋

This week in news, racing, and content from the world of women's cycling!

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

The newsletters have come thick and fast this week, especially if you’re a paid subscriber (🫶). Not a whole lot has happened since Monday, especially racing-wise but there is plenty of content to get your teeth into including seven!! podcast recs.

We’re in a bit of a (much-needed) post-worlds lull at the moment but with racing returning next week at the Tour of Scandinavia I’m sure there will be plenty to talk about by the time the next newsletter comes around! Here’s hoping for a chicken suit sighting.

It never gets old 🐥.

Enjoy the newsletter,

Amy x

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News 📰

• You can keep up with all the latest transfer news here.

• The Cyclists' Alliance has released the results from their annual rider survey which shows that salaries, safety and live coverage are at the top of the list of rider concerns. It is estimated that at the Tour de France Femmes, 20% of the peloton were not earning a living wage.

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Read  🗞️

• Young US stars Gwendalyn Gibson, Savilia Blunk shine in XCO world championships

• 'I was hoping the big names would cancel each other out' - Lizzie Deignan takes on favourites in the World Championships 

• How finding a better work-life balance helped new world road race champion Lotte Kopecky thrive 

• Getting more out of maternity: How Joss Lowden trained through pregnancy 

• Smiling in final farewell: Annemiek van Vleuten shrugs off misfortune in swan song world champs 

• ‘Sometimes you need to say stop’ - Women’s cycling’s burnout problem 

• Winning at 64: Jeannie Longo takes another World title, 38 years after her first 

• Lotte Kopecky is the best drop-bar rider in the world 

• New EF Education-Cannondale build powerful team around Veronica Ewers 

• Teenage tricks: Sasha Pardoe is Great Britain’s next BMX medal hope 

• SBT GRVL 2023 preview and riders to watch

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Listen 🎧

We’re back! Rachel and I, that is. The Tour might be over but we put aside our differences regarding Arnaud and got back on the mic. What I didn’t realise, though, was quite how many other podcasts Rachel had appeared on this week. What a traitor.

Like this one

And this one, too

Not this, though, but still a fav 🩷

TCP on the women’s worlds race.

Some Kiwi track action.

One we missed from a few weeks ago!

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Results 🏆

Konvert Kortrijk Koerse (1.1)

1. Daria Pikulik (HPH)

2. Julie De Wilde (FED)

3. Valentine Fortin (COF)

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Upcoming races 📆  

Road

Saturday 19th August: GP Oetingen (1.1)

23rd - 27th August: Tour of Scandinavia (2.WWT)

How to watch: 

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 16:00 CEST on Wednesday and Thursday, and 13:00 CEST on Friday.

MTB

Sunday 20th August: DH European Championships

 🇦🇩 UCI MTB World Cup: Vallnord, Andorra DH #4 & XCO+XCC #5

Thursday 24th August: XCC U23

Friday 25th August: DH Junior and XCC Elite

How to watch:

• DH Junior: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ and YouTube from 12:40 CEST.

• XCC Elite: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 17:30 CEST.

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Friday fun 🕺

U23 road world campion Blanka Vas with the skillz to pay the bills

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That’s all 👋

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