Unexpected live coverage 😍
➕ new EF women's team?
Hello lovely subscribers and welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🚴♀️
Another week with no WWT racing…
BUT there’s surprise (to me at least) live coverage of the CIC-Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées which some of the top TDFF contenders are using as a prep race and which has already delivered some exciting racing! (Scroll down for results!)
It also dawned on me that I keep forgetting that we have the Giro between now and TDFF which says everything about the Giro and how the organisers have massively dropped the ball when it comes to promoting or releasing any decent info about the race. Either that or it shows that I should pay more attention 👀.
(I’m actually leaning towards option 3…)
Anyway, alongside the Tour de Pyrénées (I’m shortening it to this, ok) we also have the Lenzerheide MTB world cup and I was 😍 to see how many of you answered that you already loved, or were interested in MTB. If tonight’s short track was anything to go by then Sunday is going to be 🔥.
See you next week aka when normal WWT race service is about to resume!
Amy x
News 📰
As I’m sure most of you know by now. Belgian Canyon//SRAM rider (and world champion madison partner of Lotte Kopecky) Shari Bossuyt has been suspended following an adverse analytical finding of Letrozole from a test taken at the Tour de Normandie Féminin, where she won a stage, earlier this year. Bossuyt has since pleaded her innocence.
The Lotto Belgium Tour, which was due to start next week, has been cancelled at the last minute with organisers citing lack of municipal support as the cause.
The Tour of Scandinavia will be reduced from 6 stages down to 5 after the organisers of the Swedish leg of the race pulled out due to “lack of funding.”
EF Pro Cycling have announced that they will launch a women’s team, EF Education-Cannondale, from 2024. The news comes as the current EF Education Tibco-SVB team is set to lose its two other title sponsors at the end of this year. It is not yet clear how this will affect riders such as Roubaix winner Alison Jackson.
The start list for this month’s British national championships has been released. Lizzie Deignan will not race but Katie Archibald, Pfeiffer Georgi, and Zoe Bäckstedt are set to start.
Read 🗞️
'I’m not at the top of my game yet' - Lizzie Deignan continues build at RideLondon.
Chloé Dygert says she will struggle with 2020 leg injury 'for the rest of my life'.
How to stop the Women's WorldTour from getting screwed up like the men's.
Chloe Dygert: I’m never satisfied and that’s what gets me into trouble.
‘Only 12 other people have completed it’: cycling the 7,600km European Divide.
Listen 🎧
If you speak Dutch I am v jealous
Wheel Talk did a listener Q&A!
Results 🏆
Road
Dwars door de Westhoek(1.1)
Pfeiffer Georgi (DSM)
Léa Curinier (DSM)
Charlotte Kool (DSM)
Vuelta Ciclista Andalucia Ruta Del Sol(2.1)
Stage 4: Sarah Martín (MOV)
Stage 5: Mie Bjørndal Ottestad (UXT)
Overall: Katrine Aalerud (MOV)
Alpes Gresivaudan Classic (1.1)
Évita Muzic (FDJ)
Urška Pintar (BTC)
Morgane Coston (COF)
CIC-Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées (2.1)
Stage 1: Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AGS)
MTB
XC
🇨🇭 UCI MTB World Cup: Lenzerheide, Switzerland DH #1 & XCO+XCC #2
XCC U23: 🥇 Ronja Blöchlinger 🇨🇭🥈 Ginia Caluori 🇨🇭🥉 Sofie Pedersen 🇩🇰
XCC elite: 🥇Jenny Rissveds 🇸🇪🥈Alessandra Keller 🇨🇭🥉 Pauline Ferrand Prevot 🇫🇷
DH
Junior women:🥇 Erice van Leuven 🇳🇿 🥈 Valentina Roa Sanchez 🇨🇴 🥉 Lisa Bouladou 🇫🇷
Gravel
Unbound Gravel 200: 🥇 Carolin Schiff
Unbound Gravel 100:🥇 Tiff Cromwell
Upcoming races📆
Road
10th - 11th June: Stages 3 & 4 CIC-Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées (2.1)
How to watch:
Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 13:00 CEST on the 10th and 12:30 CEST on the 11th.
10th June: Elmos Dwars door het Hageland (1.1)
11th June: SPAR Flanders Diamond Tour (1.1)
MTB
🇨🇭 UCI MTB World Cup: Lenzerheide, Switzerland DH #1 & XCO+XCC #2
Sunday 11th June: XCO U23 and Elite women
How to watch:
U23 race: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 08:25 CEST
Elite race: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 12:30 CEST
Saturdary 10th June: DH
How to watch:
Elite women semi final: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 10:30 CEST
Elite women final: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 12:45 CEST
Friday fun 🕺
Friends who wheelie together…
That’s all 👋
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Amy x
What gets Chloe Dygert into trouble is her unapologetic denial of white privilege and the trauma of black people. If she denied the holocaust existed she’d never get a ride but any kind of anti black racism is glossed over and buried - from Moscon, to Simmons to Dygert. I would genuinely be interested in your views as being one of the very few truly independant outlets of women’s cycling media with a record of championing diversity in cycling.