Author: cyclical
Giro Rosa 2017 – Stage 3 Review
It did come down to a sprint in the end, and the fastest of the fast women on stage 3 was Canyon-SRAM’s Hannah Barnes. The English rider scorched home ahead of Kirsten Wild from Cylance and Cerv... Read More
Giro Rosa 2017 – Stage 3 Preview
If there’s one thing you can be guaranteed in women’s racing, it is the unexpected. Nobody would have imagined when Annemiek Van Vleuten put the hammer down at the summit of stage two̵... Read More
Giro Rosa 2017 – Stage 2 Preview
Karol-Ann Canuel has the honor of wearing the first maglia rosa of this year’s race, having towed her team across the line in Grado. The leaden skies did nothing to shadow the delight of the new... Read More
Giro Rosa 2017 – Stage 1 Preview
The 2017 Giro d’Italia Femminile, or the Giro Rosa, kicks off for the first time ever with a team time trial. It’s common enough for an individual test against the watch to get the race go... Read More
Giro Rosa 2017 Preview
Megan Guarnier, 2016 Giro Rosa champion. © F. Ossola/Giro Rosa This is the biggest stage race on the women’s calendar: tough, long-established, well-supported, and guaranteed to see the strongest p... Read More
2017 National Championships Road Race Review
From the sublime to the ridiculous … It was a weekend of winning streaks and multiple titles, and of baffling decision-making and one-sided non-events. The sublime … UK Lizzie Deignan took her... Read More
British National Road Race Championships 2017 – Preview
The fact that you can reel off the names of a dozen women who could conceivably win the British national road title is a pointer that the depth of the women’s field is seriously developing. Ten year... Read More
Italian National Road Race Championships 2017 – Preview
Among the continental championships, the Italian road race nationals are always among the most hotly-contested. Italy, like Belgium and the Netherlands, has a deep enough pool of talent and (at least ... Read More