Women’s Cycling Weekly: Issue 31
Amy Jones packs all the women's cycling news you need to know into this weeks Women's Cycling Weekly.
Amy Jones packs all the women's cycling news you need to know into this weeks Women's Cycling Weekly.
Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 31 🚴♀️
A whole four days of live women’s racing at the Lotto Belgium Tour later and here we are: on the eve of La Course. The excitement of the LBT served as the perfect warm up event for the warm up event but the race was exciting, and dramatic, and brilliant in its own right — not merely an amuse-bouche to the latest round of the WWT. This looks to be the last La Course so lap up the live coverage (if you’re an early bird) and, local elections be damned, we’re sure to be in for an exciting race.
Oh, and the elephant in the room: the Bracke case. Lots has already been said on this subject but I think we can all agree on two points: 1) three years isn’t enough and 2) it took far too long. The Freewheeling podcast and the many articles on the subject will give you more detail that I am willing to go into here because I’ll still be typing next week — and that won’t do, because by then it will be the first stage of the Giro Rosa (ok, ‘Giro d’Italia Donne.’)
On the subject of the Giro… I can’t lie, it’s crept up on me. Suddenly, it’s one week away. Where did June go? What day is it? If I can scrape my brain from off the floor I’ll do my best to pull out some bonus content and analysis, stay tuned.
Lotto Belgium Tour 2.1
If you missed any of the action you can replay it on GCN+ .
National championship road race results (some, not all):
Lost track? Here’s a handy guide conveniently also written by me.
Set your alarms early, it’s time for everyone’s favourite sideshow: La Course!
At the unsociable hour of 8:20am CEST tomorrow, the women’s peloton will race their first World Tour event since Vuelta a Burgos Féminas. The (possibly?) last ever La Course has been shuffled forward a day (those all-important local elections, remember?) and — thus far — shuffled off the calendar for 2022 making way for the eight-day Tour de France Femmes. Starting in Brest and finishing in Landerneau the 108km course incorporates four ascents of the Côte de la Fosse aux Loups and if last year’s racing is anything to go by it will be 🔥. There’s a live broadcast from start to finish on GCN+ and Eurosport and probably various other places aka wherever you get your live cycling. Race preview here. Startlist here.
That’s it until the Giro d’Italia Donne which starts next Friday — but more on that next week!
After the brilliant first episode which followed the women’s peloton ahead of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, The Run Up is back with a second instalment trailing WWT teams ahead of La Course!
Not that we ever do, but Abby, Loren, and I definitely don’t mince out words in this week’s Freewheeling on the subject of the disgraced Doltcini Van Eyck manager whom I am trying not to name too often in this issue. We also talk about the national championships results and the Lotto Belgium Tour.
Elsewhere, a bonus episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin featuring an interview with Annemiek van Vleuten!
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Have a great weekend!
Until next time,
Amy x