It's SD Worx's world and we're just living in it
➕ I emailed the Giro Donne organisers...and got nothing
Hello lovely subscribers! ✨
The peloton might have left Spain but the madness that is the May racing calendar continues this week with both the Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour 🫶 (one of the longest-running women’s races!) and RideLondon (winner of the Worst Race of 2022 Award) coming later this week.
Only nine WWT teams are rocking up to wave to the newly-crowned King Charlie from the Mall 💂 at RideLondon and, crucially, one of the absent squads will be SD Worx. That means no Lorena Wiebes to defend her title (she completed it last year, tbf) and an opportunity for somebody else to cross the line first after a slew of victories from the Dutch squad (it’s gna be Charlotte Kool, let’s face it).
Such is SD Worx’s dominance that the question everyone has been raising lately is whether the ‘super team’ are killing women’s cycling? Sure, they are running rings around the rest of the peloton, and Mischa Bredewold’s win in Thuringen today was the team’s 13th in a row – and their 27th (?) so far this season – but is SD Worx’s dominance making the racing boring?
On paper, this season looks like the most predictable ever. SD Worx’s chokehold on the peloton has left them virtually undefeated so far this year and that’s clearly not conducive to making women’s cycling an entertaining sport to watch. The reality, though, is that many of the races have actually been pretty exciting, despite the eventual, now inevitable, SD Worx victory.
