It's double standards! 🤦🏻♀️
+ transfers, retirements, and the end of the season is coming!
Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🚴♀️
We’re just one WWT race away from the end of the 2022 season and, honestly, where did it go? Having had some really busy periods in my personal life coincide with the post-TDFF races and then worlds I’ve actually not had my head as stuck in the racing as I might usually have so tbh I’ve got a bit of a second wind and renewed enthusiasm for racing and work…just in time for it to all quieten down for a while 🙃.
But OH WELL because that energy isn’t going to be wasted. Tilda and I had a Super Important and Top Secret Zoom the other day about which all will be revealed next week and we have lots of stuff coming your way throughout the off season to keep you going until Tour Down Under (hey, it’s back, and its WWT!)
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Meanwhile, I’m honestly fuming at the UCI for their decision to u-turn on demoting RideLondon for failing to meet live coverage requirements. (Check back on CyclingTips.com for my thoughts on this later if u care.)
Amy x
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News 📰
Marta Cavalli is due to return to racing tomorrow at the Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite after a huge chunk of time away following her crash at the Tour de France Femmes in July.
Controversially, the UCI has decided NOT to put the RideLondon Classique into the naughty corner — as they did to the Giro Rosa in 2021 — and demote it to .Pro status after organisers failed to provide live coverage of most of the stages. Apparently, organisers have provided sufficient evidence of “contractual commitments to broadcast all stages of the race live on TV in 2023” but the UCI’s inconsistent example is not the one, tbh.
Emilie Moberg has announced that she will retire at the end of this season.
Annemiek van Vleuten is having retirement doubts, and the sky is blue.
The Afghan national championships are due to take place in Switzerland next month. Although there have been accounts of the head of Afghan federation excluding certain riders from the event.
Lauretta Hanson recently underwent surgery to tackle labial swelling caused by saddle problems. She opened up about the condition and surgery on Instagram.
These transfers keep coming eh? Here’s some from this week (running updates here)
Alice Towers » Canyon-SRAM
Silvia Persico, Eleonora Gasparrini, Chiara Consonni, Mikayla Harvey » UAE Team ADQ
Emilia Fahline and Stine Borgli renew at FDJ
Nicole Steigenga » AG Insurance-NXTG
Caroline Andersson » Liv Racing Xstra
India Granger » Le Col-Wahoo
Read 🗞️
🌈 Kasia Niewadoma wants worlds to be a shorter race, says it will provide more action.
🌈 A gallery of dogs, yes DOGS, who came out to watch worlds 😍🐶
Kristen Faulkner has ended her season early post-worlds (and tbh don’t blame her after how deep she went at the Tour!)
🚨Tech klaxon! 🚨 Tiffany Cromwell’s Canyon Grail CF SLX gravel bike.
“Back from injuries, Storey builds towards World Championships and Olympics.”
“I wanted to prove a point to Cycling New Zealand” says Niamh Fisher-Black after self-funding her way to her U23 world title.
British cycling’s junior academy coach, Emma Trott, says, “don’t expect too much from Zoe Bäckstedt.”
“The UCI doesn’t have anything to offer the gravel community that it doesn’t already have.”
“Masks, magpies and a silver medal: at the cycling worlds with Grace Brown.”
Some v. interesting insight on the link between Valcar Travel & Service and Team UAE ADQ.
(Paywalled) “Elinor Barker interview: 'Lizzie Deignan and Laura Kenny have already shown what's possible as a mum'“
🚨Cross alert!🚨 An interview with Canadian ‘cross specialist, Maghalie Rochette.
Watch 📺
Honestly? All the vids are always about TDFF these days!!
An exclusive interview with New Zealand cyclist Olivia Ray on her doping ban and the controversy surrounding it. (The article is paywalled but u can view the video)
Listen 🎧
Brodie Chapman on what she eats as a vegan cyclist 🌿!
+ stay tuned for the first ep of the WCW pod which is coming ✨soon✨.
Results 🏆
Nothing to report x
Upcoming races 📆
Road
7th-9th October: Tour de Romandie Féminin (2.WWT)
1st October: Giro dell’Emilia Donne (1.Pro)
Start list here
4th October: Tre Valli Varesine (1.1)
Start list here
4th October: Binche-Chimay-Binche
Start list here
Live on GCN/Eurosport from 13.45 CEST
Friday fun 🕺
This video is too cute 🥺❤️
Remember *that* podium prize that Ellen van Dijk posted about from the EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour?
That’s all 👋
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