Women's Cycling Weekly issue 40
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Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 40 🚴♀️
Hadn’t planned to move the day this goes out from Friday to Saturday but that’s what seems to have happened lately. From next week we should be able to wave goodbye to the sporadic and slightly rubbish version of WCW thanks to some incoming help which I’ll talk about more when it’s actually a thing.
There’s been soooo much racing lately it’s almost impossible to keep up. Personally, as much as the stage races over the last month or so have been great I’m looking forward to this last couple of months of the season with Worlds and PR on the horizon.
For now, here’s two week’s worth of news, content and results for ya xo
News 📰
Transfers:
Susanne Andersen: Team DSM ➡️ Uno-X
Julie Leth: Ceratizit-WNT ➡️ Uno-X
Soraya Palladin: Liv Racing ➡️ Canyon//SRAM
Elisa Balsamo: Valcar Travel & Service ➡️ Trek-Segafredo
Eider Merino: A.R Monex ➡️ Drops-Le Col s/b Tempur
Veronica Ewers ➡️ Team Tibco-SVB
Elsewhere:
Annemiek van Vleuten has hinted at the possibility that she may retire before Paris 2024.
Anna van der Breggen has pulled out of the European Championships, stating that her next and final race will be the World Championships at the end of this month.
Sarah Storey took a record 17th gold medal in the C 4-5 road race to become Britain’s most successful Paralympian of all time.
Chloe Dygert has ended her season early meaning she will miss the World Championships.
Financial challenges and the Covid-19 pandemic have forced the Tour de Yorkshire to be cancelled for a third year running — meaning it will not take place in 2022.
Kirsten Wild retired from road racing after her team were forced out of the Simac Ladies Tour. However she will still compete in the track cycling World Championships later this year.
Results 🏆
Road
GP de Plouay 1.WWT: Elisa Longo Borghini, Gladys Verhulst, Kristen Faulkner.
Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta 2.WWT:
GC: Annemiek van Vleuten, Marlen Reusser, Elise Chabbey
Stage 1: Marlen Reusser, Coryn Rivera, Elise Chabbey
Stage 2 (ITT): Annemiek van Vleuten, Marlen Reusser, Marta Cavalli
Stage 3: Annemiek van Vleuten, Liane Lippert, Kasia Niewiadoma
Stage 4: Lotte Kopecky, Elisa Longo Borghini, Anna Henderson
Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche 2.1:
Current GC leader: Leah Thomas by 9 seconds ahead of Lizzie Deignan.
Stage 1: Arlenis Sierra, Marta Bastianelli, Sheyla Gutierrez.
Stage 2: Leah Thomas, Lizzie Deignan, Thalita de Jong.
Stage 3: Chloe Hosking, Barbara Guarischi, Charlotte Kool.
European Continental Championships:
ITT: 🥇 Marlen Reusser🇨🇭🥈 Ellen van Dijk 🇳🇱 🥉 Lisa Brennauer 🇩🇪
Mixed relay: 🥇 Italy 🇮🇹 (Marta Cavalli, Elena Cecchini, Elisa Longo Borghini, Filippo Ganna, Matteo Sobrero, Alessandro De Marchi).
Junior road race: 🥇 Linda Riedmann 🇩🇪 🥈 Eleonora Ciabocco 🇮🇹 🥉Eglantine Rayer 🇫🇷
Canadian national ITT championships: 🥇 Alison Jackson, 🥈 Marie-Soleil Blais, 🥉 Gillian Ellsay.
Paralympics
Full results, (once again collated by the lovely Tilda) here.
MTB
Lenzerheide WC:
XCC: Jenny Rissveds, Evie Richards, Jolanda Neff, Anne Tauber, Loana Lecomte.
U23 XCO: Mona Mitterwallner, Caroline Bohe, Savilia Blunk, Leonie Daubermann, Gwendalyn Gibson.
Elite XCO: Evie Richards, Rebecca McConnell, Jenny Rissveds, Loana Lecomte, Sina Frei.
Upcoming Races 📅
11th - 14th September: Stages 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche.
11th September: European Continental Championships road race. Live from 14:15 CEST.
11th September: Ethias Cross Lokeren. Live from 16:15 CEST. Startlist here.
12th September La Choralis Fourmies Féminine 1.2.
Read 🗞️
Some of the Afghan cyclists are out, but it’s not over yet.
Behind the scenes of the new Uno-X women’s team.
Lucy Kennedy reflecting on her career and her decision to retire.
A Paralympics debrief.
The extraordinary story of American Paralympic cyclist Oksana Masters.
Paracyclist Clara Brown on what she has learned.
An interview with Paralympic gold medalist Eve McCrystal.
Road world championships time trial, and road race previews.
What can we expect going into the last few races of the season?
Introducing: Veronica Ewers.
Coryn Rivera reckons it’s time for an American to wear the rainbow stripes again.
Listen 🎧
The four of us were back in force for Freewheeling this week, discussing Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta — including our thoughts on uphill time trials — and any MAMILs (who defo don’t read this anyway) should skip to the end xo.
Well said, Senne:
Read the caption of this post.
And here is Anna van der Breggen’s take on this topic.
That’s all 👋
Thanks for reading Women’s Cycling Weekly.
Once again I’m not sharing the usual Ko-Fi link this week because, if you’re inclined to donate to anything at the moment, then please let it be this fund.
See you next week!
Amy x
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