The Giro's gonna happen! 🇮🇹🎉

➕ nationals-tastic

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

Just one week before it’s due to start, we finally have confirmation that the Giro Donne is going ahead. It’s not like it’s one of the biggest races on the calendar or anything, no worries that we only get the green light on it a mere week out from the start, super profesh!!

But anyway, after a ‘magical night’ (whatever that means) the Italian federation and current, outgoing organisers, Starlight, have come to an agreement on the TV production that originally left things at a stalemate and held the race in jeopardy. Hopefully this means we will actually get to see the race live.

Elsewhere, it’s 🚨 ONE MONTH 🚨 until the Tour de France Femmes and to celebrate I’ve got a lil offer going on for you guys. WCW will be at the Tour bringing you DAILY content from the race, and if you want a piece of it you can get 20% off a paid subscription for a limited time only. Just click here to redeem :)

Amy x

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News 📰

🎉 The Giro is happening 🎉

…and that’s pretty much it.

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Read  🗞️

• A brief history of the Giro Donne.

• ‘The sport is growing too quickly for race organisers’ Ally Wollaston on giving riders a voice, her rise to the top and dreams of rainbows.

• No one knows how to beat SD Worx, but Kasia Niewiadoma has some ideas.

• SD Worx back on top at Tour de Suisse with stage and GC wins.

• 'I wanted to make myself suffer' - Chabbey on long Tour de Suisse solo.

• Marlen Reusser: It’s hard to keep focus on the sport.

• Gallery: A hot and dusty masterclass at the Leogang MTB World Cup.

• Puck Pieterse upsets Austrian rivals at climb-heavy Leogang World Cup.

• Audrey Cordon Ragot: I feared for my teammates lives on the Tour de Femenin Pyrenees.

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Listen 🎧

Obv Wheel Talk!

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Results 🏆

Road

Tour de Suisse Women (2.WWT)

Stage 1: Kata Blanka Vas (SDW)

Stage 2: Marlen Reusser (SDW)

Stage 3: Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini (UAD)

Stage 4: Niamh Fisher-Black (SDW)

Overall: Marlen Reusser (SDW)

Various ITT National Championships

🇧🇪 Lotte Kopecky (SDW)

🇩🇰 Emma Norsgaard (MOV)

🇬🇧 Elizabeth Holden (UAD)

🇳🇱 Riejanne Markus (JVW)

🇫🇷 Cédrine Kerbaol (WNT)

🇮🇹 Elisa Longo Borghini (TFS)

🇺🇸 Chloé Dygert (CSR)

🇪🇸 Mireia Benito (AGI)

🇸🇮 Urška Žigart (JAY)

🇸🇪 Jenny Rissveds (HPU)

MTB

UCI MTB World Cup: Leogang, Austria DH #2 & XCO+XCC #3

DH Elite: 🥇Vali Höll 🇦🇹 🥈Camille Balanche 🇫🇷 🥉Rachel Atherton 🇬🇧

XCO U23: 🥇Sofie Pedersen 🇩🇰 🥈Samara Maxwell 🇳🇿🥉Ginia Caluori 🇨🇭

XCO Elite: 🥇Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱 🥈Mona Mitterwallner 🇦🇹 🥉Laura Stigger 🇦🇹

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Upcoming races📆 

Road

30th June - 9th July: Giro d’Italia Donne (2.WWT)

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 14:00 CEST on 30th

MTB

25th June: XCO Elite European Championships

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 11:30 CEST

UCI MTB World Cup: Val di Sole, Italy DH #3 & XCO+XCC #4

Thursday 29th June: XCC U23

Friday 30th June: DH Junior and XCC Elite

How to watch:

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

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

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Friday fun 🕺

Stay hydrated, kids.

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