Women's Cycling Weekly issue 67
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Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 67 🚴♀️ (if you saw that I didn’t update the number on this last week, no you didn’t.)
I wish I could tell you the reason that you’re receiving WCW at this time is because I’ve been off doing something really fun all day but instead it’s because I’ve been a shell of a person after some awful gastro sickness wiped me out.
This, then, is not the first time — and nor will it be the last — that I find myself declaring TGFT (thank god for Tilda) without whom this edition of WCW would have taken the form of a series of increasingly incoherent writing probably rounded off with a bedraggled selfie and a photo of my sad dinner of plain white rice to illustrate the point.
Make no mistake, though, I still managed to watch today’s Vuelta a Burgos stage so if that isn’t dedication I don’t know what is.
Anyway that’s my energy quota for the hour (do you feel sorry for me yet?) so enjoy x
News 📰
Junior world champion Zoe Backstedt will race as a stagiaire for EF Education-TIBCO-SVB from August 1 this year.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Kaitlin Armstrong in connection with the murder of Moriah Wilson.
Marianne Vos was back in action today for the first time since before Paris Roubaix, racing at the Veenendaal-Veenendaal Classic in the Netherlands, where she came 5th.
Demi Vollering spent a night in hospital after crashing in Durango-Durango, but started the Vuelta a Burgos on Friday. Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, who also crashed in Durango, did not start.
Team DSM have announced a trio of contract extensions with Charlotte Kool and Juliette Labous signing until 2024, and British champion Pfeiffer Georgi secured until 2025.
Results 🏆
Road
Itzulia Basque Country Women
Stage 1: Demi Vollering (SDW)
Stage 2: Demi Vollering (SDW)
Stage 3: Demi Vollering (SDW)
Overall:
Demi Vollering (SDW)
Pauliena Rooijakkers (CSR)
Kristen Faulkner (BEX)
Grand Prix du Morbihan Femmes (1.1)
Ally Wollaston (AGI)
Vittoria Guazzini (FDJ)
Grace Brown (FDJ)
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
Pauliena Rooijakkers (CSR)
Veronica Ewers (TIB)
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ)
Veenendaal - Veenendaal Classic
Gladys Verhulst (LCW)
Karlijn Swinkels (JVW)
Rachele Barbieri (LIV)
Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
Stage 1: Lotte Kopecky (SDW)
Stage 2: Matilde Vitillo (BPK)
MTB
🇨🇿 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Nové Město - XCC/XCO #3
Short track: 1. Jolanda Neff 🇨🇭 2. Rebecca McConnell 🇦🇺 3. Jenny Rissveds 🇸🇪
U23: 1. Line Burquier 🇫🇷 2. Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱 3. Giada Specia 🇮🇹
Elite: 1. Rebecca McConnell 🇦🇺 2. Loana Lecomte 🇫🇷 3. Jenny Rissveds 🇸🇪
Upcoming Races 📆
Road
21st-22nd May: Vuelta a Burgos Feminas [stages 3&4] (2.WWT)
Live on Eurosport/GCN from 14.30 CET each day.
27th-29th May: RideLondon Classique (2.WWT)
Start list here
24th-29th May: Internationale LOTTO Thüringen Ladies Tour (2.Pro)
Start list here
MTB
21st-22nd May: 🏴 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Fort William - DHI #2
Qualification Saturday
Juniors Sunday 11.30 CET
Elite Sunday 13.30 CET
Watch on Red Bull TV
Read 🗞️
Slim pickings this week.
Listen 🎧
Unpacking Itzulia Women with the Freewheeling squad!
Watch 📺
That’s all 👋
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Until next time!