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2020 Giro Rosa, Features, Previews, Racing, women's cycling -

Preview: Your guide to the 2020 Giro Rosa

There is only one stage race on the Women’s WorldTour calendar that is longer than seven days* and that is the Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile, or the Giro Rosa. There used to be two “Grand Tours” for women, but the other multi-day race, the Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin in France, was cancelled in 2010 …

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A chat with Amanda Spratt: ‘I feel my best years are still to come’

Amanda Spratt is aiming high. “The dream is to win more races, to be world champion and Olympic champion,” she tells me. “The dream is to win with my team because I feel my best years are still to come.” Now 32 years young, the Australian champion is ready to start the most important part …

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Tour de France gallery: The tightest of sprints on stage 11

It was a close sprint that decided stage 10 of the Tour de France and Wednesday’s stage 11 delivered more of the same. Four gun sprinters were tightly bunched as they hit the line in Poitiers and a photo was required to confirm the order they crossed the line. Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) was the victor …

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A brief history of Grand Tour sprint relegations

Another Tour de France, another sprint relegation. Sprinting is a discipline that tends to favor adrenaline over caution, aggression over wariness, so it’s no great surprise that many of the Tour de France rule violations that result in relegation or disqualification come from the last few hundred meters of flat stages. The rule governing sprint …

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‘I have to be brave and attack’: A chat with solo expert Elisa Longo Borghini

When Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) wins a race, it’s always spectacular. The cold and rainy Trofeo Binda when she was only 21 years young, the long solo in the 2015 Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianchi in 2017 on Audrey Cordon-Ragot’s bike after an early crash … There was another long solo when she became Italian …

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