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The Giro Rosa, the nearly invisible race

The 2020 Giro Rosa is now going into its seventh stage and the race has been full of thrills and spills so far – not that anybody outside of those covering it or working it have been able to see much of the action. Despite the best efforts of a few Twitter stalwarts and a …

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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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Meet Mavi Garcia, the woman who very nearly won Strade Bianche

This past weekend the world saw a brilliant ride by Mavi Garcia. With a courageous solo attack at Strade Bianche the 36-year-old almost won the iconic race on Tuscany’s gravel roads. World champion Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-Scott), unbeaten this year, only caught the Spanish rider in the final six kilometres, leaving Garcia to settle for …

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How coronavirus has affected bike racing: An on-the-ground perspective

After several months without racing, the professional women’s road calendar restarted this past weekend in Spain. Over the course of three races — two in Pamplona and one in Durango — the best in the world got a chance to test their racing legs after such a long lay-off, while also coming to terms with …

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