Save the date for the Giro route 🇮🇹

+ Laura Kenny might make a comeback for Paris?!

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

This is going to be a pretty short intro this week (and my apologies to the paid subscribers for the lack of email!) I’ve been taken out by food poisoning and have only just gathered the energy to get this newsletter together 😵‍💫 I hope you’ve all had a better few days than me!!

Enjoy the issue,

Amy x

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News 📰

• On the Downtime podcast, Tahnée Seagrave confirmed that six women will be heading to Australia for the first edition of Red Bull Hardline in Tasmania.

• We’re finally going to get a route presentation for the Giro d’Italia Women, on the 12th December.

• In 2024, Festival Elsy Jacobs will go from being a stage race to two adjacent one-day races.

• Seven new events have been added to the Trek UCI Gravel World Series for 2024.

• On the Crankworx World Tour, there will now be a women's category in the Slopestyle events which will be broadcast live on Red Bull TV and receive equal prize money as the men’s category.

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Read  🗞️

• “I’m grateful to women before me who made it possible.’ Cat Ferguson on signing with Movistar as a 17-year-old - Rouleur

• Cyclocross gallery: Muddy thrills and spills on both sides of the Channel - Escape Collective 

• Canyon-SRAM Team Talk: Improvements made but how do they reach the next level? - GCN 

• Double the talent: meet the multidisciplinary Holmgren Twins destined for the top - Rouleur

• What do ultra-distance events like the Tour Divide do to the body? - Escape Collective 

• Lucinda Brand Chasing a Second World 'Cross Title: 'That's Still in the Mind to Fight for' - Velo 

• “I finished and just wanted McDonald’s’ - Joanna Chuang on her 650km record attempt ride between Bangkok and Chiang Mai - Rouleur

• 'Everyone thinks I'm mad' – Laura Kenny targeting Paris 2024 Olympics return - GCN 

• Q&A: Three-time world champ Nettie Edmondson on life as a rider agent - Escape Collective 

• FDJ-SUEZ Team Talk: Plenty of success, but were there enough big race wins? - GCN

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Watch 📺

Manon Lloyd shares her tips for dealing with periods while cycling. 

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Listen 🎧

Our most chaotic episode yet?

 Tahnée Seagrave is on Downtime to talk about everything from Red Bull Hardline to being called the wrong name on live TV.

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Results 🏆

CX

X2O Trofee #2: Kortrijk - Urban Cross

1. Fem van Empel 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱

🇮🇪 UCI Cyclocross World Cup #5: Dublin, Ireland 

Junior:

1. Célia Gery 🇫🇷

2. Cat Ferguson 🇬🇧

3. Imogen Wolff 🇬🇧

Elite:

1. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

2. Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱

3. Zoe Backstedt 🇬🇧

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Upcoming races 📆  

CX

Saturday 2nd December: Superprestige #5: Boom

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 13:30 CET.

• Startlist here.

Sunday 3rd December: 🇫🇷 UCI Cyclocross World Cup #5: Flamanville, France

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 13:30 CET.

Startlist here.

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Friday fun 🕺

Puck and her new bestie 🦆

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That’s all 👋

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