Women's Cycling Weekly issue 44
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Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 44 🚴♀️
Paris Roubaix Femmes was everything. We discussed this on Freewheeling but at this stage in the season there’s only one race that could have got me excited like that and PR was it. Sure, it wasn’t won in the most dramatic manner, but it was won in style and the rest of the race was exactly the cobbled carnage that defines Roubaix. I loved it, bring on the 2022 race.
If you want to get your hands on a little piece of that historical day for a good cause then check out photographer Jojo Harper who is auctioning off a one-off signed print of Lizzie Deignan in the iconic Roubaix showers. Proceeds will go to Women’s Aid. Click here to find out more.
The Women’s Tour has never had live coverage but since the last edition (in 2019) we’ve become accustomed to watching WWT races live. As a result, the lack of live coverage just makes it hard to get excited about the race. Not to mention the fact that it’s October so can the season just end already? (It can’t just be me thinking this?)
News 📰
Transfers
Maryanne Hinault: Team La Godasse ➡ Arkea Pro Cycling
Anaïs Morichon: Centre-Val de Loire ➡ Arkea Pro Cycling
Coryn Labecki: Team DSM ➡ Jumbo Visma Women
Elsewhere
Annemiek van Vleuten has ended her season early after a heavy crash in Paris Roubaix left her with a fractured pelvis. Ellen van Dijk and Kasia Niewiadoma are among other riders out after Roubaix crashes.
Trek-Segafredo announced they would match Lizzie Deignan’s Paris Roubaix prize money to be equal to the men’s sum. It was also revealed this is something they have been doing all season (where races had men’s equivalents).
Several riders have had their retirement plans put off due to the truncated season and the number of riders out of the Women’s Tour after Paris Roubaix injuries. Lucy Kennedy has retired - again - after a last-minute call up to the Women’s Tour interrupted her retirement only 19 days in, whilst Trixi Worrack is riding the Women’s Tour after planning to retire last weekend.
Another stage race will be added to the calendar in 2022, as the organisers of the Ruta del Sol in Andalucía announce a women’s race at the end of April.
The Cyclists’ Alliance have launched their new Duty of Care Framework, an initiative focusing on riders’ mental and physical wellbeing.
Elinor Barker has revealed she was pregnant when she rode to a silver medal on the track in Tokyo.
After the news that there would be no live broadcast of the race, it also came out that the Women’s Tour prize pot has shrunk in 2021. The organisers aim to return to parity with the Tour of Britain in 2022.
Results 🏆
Paris Roubaix Femmes (WWT): 1. Lizzie Deignan (TFS) 2. Marianne Vos (TJV) 3. Elisa Longo Borghini (TFS)
AJ Bell Women’s Tour (WWT)
Current GC: 1. Demi Vollering (SDW) 2. Juliette Labous (DSM) 3. Clara Copponi (FDJ)
Stage 1: Marta Bastianelli (ALE)
Stage 2: Amy Pieters (SDW)
Stage 3 (ITT): Demi Vollering (SDW)
Stage 4: Lorena Wiebes (DSM)
Stage 5: Lorena Wiebes (DSM)
Giro dell’Emilia Donne (1.Pro): 1. Mavi García (ALE) 2. Arlenis Sierra (MNX) 3. Rachel Neylan (PHV)
Tre Valli Varesine (1.2): 1. Arlenis Sierra (MNX) 2. Mavi Garcia (ALE) 3. Rachel Neylan (PHV)
Vuelta a Colombia Feminina (2.2)
Overall: 1. Lilibeth Chacón 2. Aranza Villalón 3. Miryam Nuñez
Stage 4: Lilibeth Chacón
Stage 5: Lilibeth Chacón
Stage 6: Miryam Nuñez
National Road Championships, Ireland 🇮🇪
Road race: 🥇Imogen Cotter 🥈 Megan Armitage 🥉 Linda Kelly
Time trial: 🥇 Joanna Patterson 🥈 Eve McCrystal 🥉 Linda Kelly
CX
Superprestige Gieten (Rnd 1)
Lucinda Brand
Denise Betsema
Annemarie Worst
Track
🇪🇺 European Championships, Grenchen 🇨🇭
Scratch race: 🥇 Katie Archibald (GBR) 🥈 Valentine Fortin (FRA) 🥉 Daria Pikulik (POL)
Team sprint: 🥇 Netherlands 🥈 Germany 🥉 Russia
Elimination race: 🥇 Valentine Fortin (FRA) 🥈 Letizia Paternoster (ITA) 🥉 Neah Evans (GBR)
Team pursuit: 🥇 Germany 🥈 Italy 🥉 Ireland
Omnium: 🥇 Katie Archibald (GBR) 🥈 Victoire Berteau (FRA) 🥉 Rachele Barbieri (ITA)
Sprint: 🥇 Shanne Braspennincx (NED) 🥈 Lea Friedrich (GER) 🥉 Mathilde Gros (FRA)
Upcoming Races 📅
Road:
4th - 9th October: AJ Bell Women’s Tour (WWT)
Track:
5th - 9th October: European Track Championships 🇪🇺
CX:
10th October: UCI Cyclocross World Cup Waterloo (Rnd 1)
13th October: UCI Cyclocross World Cup Fayetteville (Rnd 2)
Read 🗞️
Trigger warning: women’s shoulders in a shower????? (jks — just read the comments) Trek-Segafredo’s photographer Jojo Harper on the story behind her shots from Roubaix.
Lucy Kennedy on her 19-day retirement.
Teniel Campbell reckons she can win Roubaix one day.
Behind The Cyclists’ Alliance new Duty of Care Framework.
Relive Lizzie Deignan’s historic - and bloody - Paris Roubaix victory.
Women’s Roubaix tech.
Lizzie Deignan: “Women’s cycling is making massive leaps, but it is sustainable”
Listen 🎧
In what is truly a ‘#spain’ situation I still don’t have internet in my new flat. Luckily, Abby and I live in the same town (well, until she legged it over to the US) and I dragged myself up to her house for 8am on Monday to record my first IRL Freewheeling! Gracie and Loren were also present and correct on Zoom and we discussed Roubaix in all its glory as well as a preview of The Women’s Tour.
Over in the UK, the Cycling Podcast have been doing some great daily pods from The Women’s Tour.
That’s all 👋
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Until next time,
Amy x