Women's Cycling Weekly issue 45
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Hello! Welcome to Womenโs Cycling Weekly issue 45 ๐ดโโ๏ธ
My week has been spent fielding criticism from men about this article and this follow-up piece. If you want to give up on the human race then read the comments below both of them. I could go into a detailed rant about it all here but thereโs no point, because WCW readers are not the target audience for that, and I have a cold so I have even less energy to spend on those people than usual.
The antidote to all that was the announcement of the Tour de France Femmes route which was actually much better than I (and most people?) had given ASO credit for in predicting how it might look. If you care about my extended thoughts on that (pls care โ make me relevant) then you can read them here. TL;DR is: whatever you think of the route, itโs just bloody exciting that thereโs going to be a TDFF and this is a seismic moment for the womenโs side of the sport.
Right, enough waffle from me โ letโs crack on.
As usual, shout out to my girl Tilda for putting together most of the below info x
News ๐ฐย
Transfersย
Barbara Malcotti: Valcar Travel & Service โก Rally Cycling
Rachele Barbieri: โก Liv Racing
Katia Ragusa: AR Monex Pro Cycling โก Liv Racing
Rosalie van der Wolf: Multum Accountants - LSK Ladies โก Parkhotel Valkenburg
Mijntje Geurts: โก Lotto Soudal Ladies
Marla Sigmund: โก Lotto Soudal Ladies
Elsewhere
ASO have revealed details of the inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The race will cover eight stages in Northern France next July. It starts directly after the menโs race finishes in Paris, and will culminate on La Planche des Belles Filles the following Sunday.
ย Former French national champion Marion Rousse has also been appointed as director of the Tour de France Femmes.ย
UAE Team Emirates have confirmed they will take over Alรฉ BTC Ljubljanaโs Womenโs WorldTour licence and have their own WWT team in 2022. Title sponsors Alรฉ and bike sponsors Cipollini are set to end their involvement with the team.
Following UAE Team Emiratesโ announcement, Amnesty International called on the team to โfamiliarise themselves with the UAEโs human rights recordโ, which is poor in regards to equality and womenโs rights.ย
Amanda Spratt is to undergo iliac artery surgery over the winter. This comes after a difficult season for the Australian.
Team DSMโs Julia Soek, who announced her retirement in September, will join Drops-Le Col as a sports director in 2022.
Rally Cyclingโs Emma White has announced her somewhat surprising retirement, just five days after winning the Sea Otter Classic. Though only 24, White has had a successful career as a junior, has been national and World champion, and competed at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.ย
The UCI are helping some Afghan cyclists to seek asylum in Switzerland.
Results ๐
Road
AJ Bell Womenโs Tour (WWT)
Overall: 1. Demi Vollering (SDW) 2. Juliette Labous (DSM) 3. Clara Copponi (FDJ)
Stage 6: Lorena Wiebes (DSM)ย
La Classique Morbihan (1.1)
British national ITT championships ๐ฌ๐ง
Elite: ๐ฅ Anna Henderson ๐ฅ Joss Lowden ๐ฅ Leah Dixon
U23: ๐ฅ Anna Shackley ๐ฅ Pfeiffer Georgi ๐ฅ Abi Smith
La Classique Morbihan 1.1 1. Sofia Bertizzolo (LIV) 2. Valetine Fortin (St Michel - Auber93) 3. Chiara Consonni (VAL)
Track:
European Track Championships ๐ช๐บ
500m time trial: ๐ฅ Daria Shmeleva (RUS) ๐ฅ Pauline Grabosch (GER) ๐ฅ Yana Tyschenko (RUS)
Individual pursuit: ๐ฅ Lisa Brennauer (GER) ๐ฅ Marion Borras (FRA) ๐ฅ Mieke Kroger (GER)ย
Points race: ๐ฅ Gulnaz Khatuntseva (RUS) ๐ฅ Shari Bossuyt (BEL) ๐ฅ Lonneke Uneken (NED)ย
Keirin: ๐ฅ Lea Friedrich (GER) ๐ฅ Olena Starikova (UKR) ๐ฅ Yana Tyschenko (RUS)
Madison: ๐ฅKatie Archibald & Neah Evans (GBR) ๐ฅ Amalie Dideriksen & Julie Leth (DEN)ย ๐ฅ Victoire Berteau and Marion Borras (FRA)ย
CX
UCI Cyclocross World Cup Waterloo (Rnd 1)
Marianne Vosย
Lucinda Brand
Denise Betsemaย
UCI Cyclocross World Cup Fayetteville (Rnd 2)
Lucinda Brand
Denise Betsema
Clara Honsinger
Upcoming Races ๐ย
Road
16th October: GP du Morbihan (1.1)
Track
20th-24th October: UCI Track World Championships, Roubaix ๐
CX
17th October: UCI Cyclocross World Cup Iowa (Round 3)
Read ๐๏ธ
A retrospective on Queen Anna van der Breggenโs career.
The womenโs peloton reacts to the TDFF route.
This Roubaix gallery cause I missed it last time.
An interview with new World Champ Elisa Balsamo.
Listenย ๐ง
Freewheeling, duh. Sans Gracie this week and a quick one when it come to our chat but stay tuned all the way through for an interview with Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer!
Thatโs all ๐
Thanks for reading Womenโs Cycling Weekly, I hope you have had a lovely weekend.
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Until next time,
Amy x