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2020 Tour of Flanders, Features, Previews, Racing, women's cycling - October 16, 2020

Preview: Your guide to the 2020 women’s Tour of Flanders

It feels like the season only started yesterday yet here we are, at the final one-day races of the year. Sunday’s penultimate one-day race on the Women’s WorldTour calendar is not just your standard single-day event — it’s the event: the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Flanders is everything that makes cycling exciting. Cobbles, climbs, weather, chaos. …

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Liane Lippert is one of the sport’s most exciting young stars

Like me you’ve probably been focusing on the big stars over these past few months. Fair enough — the likes of Anna van der Breggen, Lizzie Deignan, Annemiek van Vleuten, Elisa Longo Borghini and Marianne Vos did win a lot of races. However, shortly behind them a 22-year old German rider for Team Sunweb has …

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Features, Gracie Elvin, News, women's cycling - October 6, 2020

Gracie Elvin announces retirement from cycling

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Two-time Australian road race champion and Classics specialist Gracie Elvin has announced that this will be her final season of professional cycling on her team website. Coming into the last part of the season, and my favorite cobbled classics races, I am officially announcing my retirement from professional cycling at the end of this year. …

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Annemiek van Vleuten plans to race World Championships with broken wrist

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The defending World Champion Annemiek van Vleuten is on her way to Italy to race the world championships today and is confident she will be able to race on Saturday. “Will I ride? Yes or no? Yes, I am riding, I think. I will let you know formally on Friday but my final test yesterday …

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What you might have missed at the 2020 Giro Rosa

The Giro Rosa is done for another year. The teams, staff and press have all either gone home or headed on to Imola for Worlds. The ‘podium girl’ can stop wearing the white dress that makes her look like a parasol and put on a nice pair of comfy joggers. The guy who plays the …

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