Merry Christmas from Women's Cycling Weekly 🎄
Featuring Tilda's emoji quiz 🤔
Ho ho ho and welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🎄🎅🚴♀️
Apologies that this is reaching you a day later than normal — I was busy with festivities yesterday and forgot to press send! 🤦♀️
For those who recall last year’s festive edition of the newsletter I am sorry that this one doesn’t include such gems as Tilda and I as dancing elves or a run-down of my fav moment from 2023 but what it does include is Tilda’s emoji quiz, a twelve days of WCW-mas and, ICYMI, a Christmas quiz episode of the pod where Tilda and Rachel went head-to-head on the events of the 2023 season.
Of course, there’s also the usual newsletter sections and Friday fun!
Enjoy, and see you in 2024!
Amy x
Tilda’s emoji quiz 🤓
Back by popular demand, it’s Tilda’s emoji quiz! How many of these moments from the 2023 season described via emoji can you guess? Comment your guesses below!
1. 🚴♀️🐎
2. ⏱️🇮🇹⛈️☔⛔
3. 💨💨💨🪨🇬🇧💪
4. 👧🏼🇮🇹🏆👧🏻🇳🇱😡
5. 🇦🇺👧🧡🔁🇨🇳
Answers will be in the next edition!
The twelve days of WCW-mas 🎄🎶
Sing along to this catchy tune…
One Frenchman on a motorbike, two New WWT teams for 2024, three Ardennes wins for Demi, four days of WWT racing Down Under, five stages of the new Tour de l’Avenir femmes, six riders leaving Jumbo, seven days of racing at the 2024 Tour, eight different TDFF stage winners (and eight years of the WWT), nine years of Strade Bianche, ten minutes between the top-10 in the TDFF GC, eleven different SD Worx winners and twelve SD Worx 1-2s (more if you count all GCs and worlds).
And not a single partridge in a pear tree 🍐.
The normal bits
News 📰
Fem van Empel has extended her contract with Visma | Lease a Bike until 2027.
RockShox Trek Race Team are disbanding and will not be racing in 2024. Vali Höll, the current downhill world champ, is rumoured to be moving to YT.
Sarah Gigante has left her Movistar contract early and will be moving to AG Insurance-Soudal for 2024.
Read 🗞️
Ava Holmgren swaps 'every woman for herself' junior racing for balance in WorldTour - Cyclingnews
A ruptured spleen and long COVID – Alyssa Polites' neo-pro year was a doozy - Escape Collective
Jenny Graham Q&A: ‘I’ve stayed in more public toilets than I care to admit’ - Cycling Weekly
Laura Kenny: Women struggle to get pregnant because of athlete lifestyle - BBC Sport
71% of cycling industry women are considering leaving - these trailblazers tell us why, and what's being done to fix it - Cycling Weekly
Watch 📺
Another GoPro lap from the one and only
Listen 🎧
Another Christmas quiz, this time from The Cycling Podcast Féminin!
It’s Wheel Talk’s final episode of the year and they’re chatting all about the Giro route announcement.
Results 🏆
CX
X2O Trofee #3: Herentals
Fem van Empel 🇳🇱
Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱
Annemarie Worst 🇳🇱
🇧🇪 UCI Cyclocross World Cup #8: Namur, Belgium
Junior:
Célia Gery 🇫🇷
Viktória Chladonová 🇸🇰
Amandine Muller 🇫🇷
Elite:
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱
Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱
Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱
Upcoming races 📆
CX
Saturday 23rd December: 🇧🇪 UCI Cyclocross World Cup #9: Antwerpen, Belgium
How to watch:
Tuesday 26th December: 🇧🇪 UCI Cyclocross World Cup #10: Gavere, Belgium
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport from 13:30 CET.
Startlist here.
Wednesday 27th December: Superprestige #6: Heusden-Zolder
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport from 13:30 CET.
Thursday 28th December: Superprestige #7: Diegem
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport from 18:50 CET.
Saturday 30th December: 🇳🇱 UCI Cyclocross World Cup #11: Hulst, Netherlands
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport from 13:30 CET.
Monday 1st January: X2O Trofee #4: Baal
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport from 13:45 CET.
Thursday 4th January: X2O Trofee #5: Koksijde
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport from 13:45 CET.
Friday fun 🕺
Lorena's going back to her gymnastics roots 🤸
Mamma mia!
That’s all 🎄🎅
Thanks for reading Women’s Cycling Weekly, I hope you have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year — see you in 2024!
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Until next time,
Amy x
I love the emoji quiz but oh gosh I’m so bad at it. I know Zlatana though—would recognize her anywhere 💜
(3 is RideLondon???)
Good old Zlatana - Merry Christmas!