Women's Cycling Weekly issue 43
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Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 43 🚴♀️
🚨Paris Roubaix alert!
It’s tomorrow. The moment we’ve been waiting for for 125 years (or since a random press release from the UCI in the middle of 2020) — the women’s peloton are getting a Paris Roubaix. Whether it rains or not (spoiler: Tweeting your opinion can’t change the weather) the fact remains that this is a moment in history whereby women’s cycling gets to share a part of the romance and folklore of the sport. Whoever wins tomorrow will go down in history, but before that moment we’ve got an epic — and I don’t use that word lightly — race to look forward to.
News 📰
Transfers
Sylvie Swinkels: Parkhotel Valkenburg ➡ Team Coop-Hitec Products
Elsewhere
Joss Lowden broke the women’s Hour Record on Thursday, with a distance of 48.406km. She beat Vittoria Bussi’s record of 48.007km, set in 2018.
There will be no live coverage of the upcoming Women’s Tour due to financial constraints, according to the organisers. Instead, there will be a daily highlights package.
Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank will fund development team Fount Cycling Guild next season.
The Women’s Tour Down Under, Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and Herald Sun Tour events in Australia have been cancelled for a second time for 2022.
Annemiek van Vleuten had some interesting things to say about the Dutch team after the World Championships, according to Het Nieuwsblad (🇧🇪).
Ruth Winder has been elected to the UCI Athletes’ Commission on a four-year term.
After ending her racing career at the World Championships, there’s no rest for Anna van der Breggen as she will be in the SD Worx team car at Paris Roubaix this weekend. She will shadow DS Danny Stam before stepping into the role herself next season.
Results 🏆
🌈 UCI Road World Championships, Flanders:
Elite Road Race:
🌈 Elisa Balsamo 🇮🇹
🥈 Marianne Vos 🇳🇱
🥉 Kasia Niewiadoma 🇵🇱
Junior Road Race:
🌈 Zoe Backstedt 🇬🇧
🥈 Kaia Schmid 🇺🇸
🥉 Linda Riedmann 🇩🇪
Vuelta a Colombia Feminina (2.2)
Current GC: 1. Aranza Valentina Villalón 2. Lilibeth Chacón 3. Anet Barrera
Stage 1: Lilibeth Chacón (Merquimia Proyecta Team)
Stage 2: Aranza Valentina Villalón (Avinal-Carmen de Viboral)
Stage 3 (ITT): Lilibeth Chacón
Upcoming Races 📅
2nd October: Paris Roubaix Femmes (WWT) | 13.35 CET
2nd October: Giro dell’Emilia Donne (1.Pro)
4th - 9th October: AJ Bell Women’s Tour (WWT)
Start list here
6th - 11th October: Tour d’Occitanie (2.2)
Read 🗞️
An interesting article on DW about the development of women’s cycling and the lack of an U23 circuit.
Joss Lowden on the Hour before breaking it yesterday.
10 riders to watch at Paris Roubaix.
Ellen van Dijk cried after her first recon of the PR cobbles, now she’s a favourite to win.
Emma Norsgaard on PR.
Marianne Vos is “ready to fight” at Paris Roubaix Femmes.
Britt Knaven on racing Paris Roubaix 20 years after her father, Servais Knaven, won the race.
Paris Roubaix is more than just a race, it’s a statement.
The prestige - and pressure - of winning the first Paris Roubaix Femmes.
Cyclocross veteran Kateřina Nash on why she’s not going anywhere yet.
Trixi Worrack says goodbye to the professional peloton.
Anna van der Breggen is ready for the next chapter.
Watch 📺
TWO favs return for your viewing pleasure this week.
First, it’s the return of The Run Up — this time the riders are preparing for…yep, you guessed it: Paris Roubaix.
Next up it’s The Bunnyhop, featuring the one and only Tilda aka the saving grace behind this very newsletter. Plus dispatches from worlds, Lizzie Deignan, Riejanne Markus, Katie Archibald, and Blanka Vas.
Listen 🎧
A post-worlds debrief on Freewheeling and an absent Amy again because I just moved house and have no internet ✌️
That’s all 👋
Thanks for reading Women’s Cycling Weekly, I hope you have had a lovely weekend.
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Until next time,
Amy x