Women's Cycling Weekly issue 48
Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 48 🚴♀️
Two weeks goes by fast, especially when you haven’t written the intro to your newsletter and you spent the last two weeks putting it off and then leave it until you make it to your parents house in the UK and it’s raining and dark at 4:30pm and you have no inspiration so you just write a stream of consciousness.
Anyway, a fair bit has happened lately: the transfers just keep on coming, and some good cx and track racing went down so have a scroll for the results from those.
If you take one thing from this newsletter or click one link can I ask that it’s this interview with Afghan cyclist Rukhsar Habibzai? It’s written my me but that’s honestly not the point — this isn’t a gratuitous plug. Rukhsar is an incredible woman who has so much strength and determination and drive in the face of a truly awful situation that has forced her to flee her country and leave her family behind.
Now, on with it…
News 📰
Transfers
Nina Kessler: Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank ➡ Team BikeExchange
Chelsie Tan Wei Shi: ➡ Team BikeExchange
Georgia Baker: ➡ Team BikeExchange
Alex Manly: ➡ Team BikeExchange
Quinty Ton: ➡ Liv Racing
Tereza Neumanova: ➡ Liv Racing
Victoire Berteau: Doltcini Van Eyck Proximus Continental Team ➡ Cofidis
Kaia Schmid: ➡ Rally Cycling
Makayla Macpherson: ➡ Rally Cycling
Josie Knight: ➡ Lotto Soudal
Esmée Gielkens: ➡ Lotto Soudal
Kristyna Burlova: ➡ Lotto Soudal
Ines van der Paar: ➡ Lotto Soudal
Elsewhere:
RideLondon will return as a stage race in 2022. The three-day Women’s WorldTour race will take place around London and Essex at the end of May next year.
Rally Cycling are to be known as Human Powered Health in 2022, after a new wellness platform from owners Circuit Sport.
EF Education have joined TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank as title sponsor for the 2022 season. The team, which has applied for Women’s WorldTour status, will be known as EF Education-TIBCO-SVB and have announced plans to pay all full time riders the men’s WorldTour minimum salary.
In very sad news, World Cycling Centre rider Desiet Kidane, from Eritrea, was killed in a crash in training this week.
Results 🏆
Track
UCI Track Champions League, Mallorca (Round 1)
Scratch: Maggie Coles-Lyster (CAN)
Elimination: Katie Archibald (GBR)
Sprint: Emma Hinze (GER)
Keirin: Kelsey Mitchell (CAN)
Endurance leader: Katie Archibald (GBR)
Sprint leader: Emma Hinze (GER)
CX
🇪🇺 European Championships, Col du Vam
Elite:🥇 Lucinda Brand (NED) 🥈 Blanka Vas (HUN) 🥉 Yara Kastelijn (NED)
U23: 🥇 Shirin van Anrooij (NED) 🥈Puck Pieterse (NED) 🥉 Fem van Empel (NED)
Junior: 🥇Zoe Backstedt (GBR) 🥈 Leonie Bentveld (NED) 🥉 Nienke Vinke (NED)
UCI Cyclocross World Cup Overijse (Rnd 5)
Blanka Vas
Puck Pieterse
Lucinda Brand
Superprestige Niel (Rnd 3)
Lucinda Brand
Annemarie Worst
Denise Betsema
Upcoming Races 📆
14th November: UCI Cyclocross World Cup Tabor (Rnd 6)
20th November: Superprestige Merksplas (Rnd 4)
Read 🗞️
A catch up with the recently-retired Ruth Winder on Trek-Segafredo’s site.
Young superstar Blanka Vas on her inspirations.
Queen Anna vdB on becoming and DS and why (praise be) we won’t catch her at gravel races.
This incredible piece of investigation by Iain Treloar on the truth behind the UCI-led evacuation flight from Afghanistan.
A lil look by me at the transfers so far (n.b the EF roster has yet to be confirmed and is based on PCS).
Trixi Worrack on life after racing.
Some additional info on the Ride London Classique from the race director.
Listen 🎧
Gracie has been absent from Freewheeling for a while because she’s been busy being a boss babe elsewhere. This week, though, she sat down and interviewed former team mate Grace Brown about her role in the peloton, how she deals with pressure, cycling development in Australia, and what she is looking forward to in 2022.
The Cycling Podcast Féminin returned, too, this time featuring Lizzy Banks as a host, talking about Paris Roubaix and next year’s TdF Femmes.
Watch 📺
ICYMI
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
Happy to have found WCW…heard your very gentle plug on Freewheeling podcast and popped on over . Great job, Amy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻