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Features, Harsh realities of women's cycling, Molly Weaver, Opinion and analysis, Racing, women's cycling - March 19, 2020

Harsh realities of women’s cycling, part two: Expectations and control

Molly Weaver raced as a professional from 2015 to 2018 on several teams based in the UK and Europe. She was a trusty domestique who spent much of her career riding in the support of others. Weaver stepped away from the sport in mid 2018 after “a lifetime’s worth of misfortune” in one year — …

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Shoddy & Ashleigh Moolman: Olympics vs World Championships

This week’s video comes from the home – no scrap that – the palatial abode and second job location of South African national road champion and team CCC-Liv’s Ashleigh Moolman. Ashleigh has been a professional cyclist for ten years now, starting out with the Belgian outfit Lotto Ladies Team and for the past two seasons …

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Preview: The Classics continue at the Ronde van Drenthe

While a bunch of European races have been cancelled as the region battles to contain the spread of coronavirus, the Ronde van Drenthe Women’s WorldTour race is going ahead as planned. Ahead of the Dutch one-dayer, here’s José Been with a preview of Sunday’s course, the riders to watch, and the significance of this year’s …

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Features, News, women's cycling - March 8, 2020

Women’s Cycling Matters

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My alarm went off at 7:15am last Saturday. I rolled over, grabbed my laptop off the bedside table, opened it up, responded to a couple messages from our new contributor José Been, and pulled up the livestream of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad just as the peloton hit the Muur. I watched as Annemiek van Vleuten yanked …

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Annemiek’s rainbow debut: “I’ve trained enough now, so let’s race!”

“I don’t feel the pressure, I’m just excited and I’m really ready to race. I’ve trained enough now, so let’s race!” When Annemiek van Vleuten attacked with 105km remaining at the 2019 UCI Road Race World Championships, and no one went with her, few thought she would survive, including the 37-year-old herself. Five months on …

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