Femke de Vries took the first professional win of her career on stage 1 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse Women, winning in Sondrio after a bold late move with Lauren Dickson survived the final climbs and descent. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider beat Dickson in the sprint after the pair had […]
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The Tour de Suisse Women 2026 has the look of a compact but revealing WorldTour stage race, with five days that should reward complete riders rather than pure climbers alone. There is no long, gradual build-up. The race starts on hilly ground in Sondrio, moves through Locarno and Bad Ragaz, adds a 23.8km individual time […]
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Lorena Wiebes opened the 2026 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas with a commanding sprint victory in Burgos, confirming her status as the fastest finisher in the race. The SD Worx-Protime rider was guided into position through a controlled finale before launching a sprint that quickly settled the stage, with Chiara Consonni and Georgia Baker left to […]
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Itzulia Women 2026 begins on Friday, 15th May, with a stage that immediately sets the tone for the race. There is no gentle opening day, no flat procession, and no obvious sprint stage for the peloton to settle into the rhythm of the Basque Country. Instead, stage 1 starts and finishes in Zarautz, covers 121.3km, […]
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Itzulia Women has quickly built one of the clearest identities in the Women’s WorldTour because it does not need a long route to create a hard race. In just three days, it consistently delivers the kind of repeated climbing, technical roads and aggressive pacing that can turn a compact stage race into a demanding test […]
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Carys Lloyd of Movistar sprinted to the biggest win of her career at Ronde Van Brugge Women 2026 on Thursday, beating the likes of Lorena Wiebes and Elisa Balsamo in Bruges after a tense, attritional day that repeatedly threatened to split apart but ultimately ended in a reduced bunch finish. The 19-year-old opened her sprint […]
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The final day of the Vuelta a Extremadura did exactly what a queen stage is supposed to do, it took a race that looked stable after a time trial and a sprint stage and turned it inside out on the last major climb. Mackenzie Coupland arrived at Jaraíz de la Vera having ridden herself into […]
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A cold, rain-soaked opening day in Extremadura turned the first test of the race into something more than a pure power exercise. The 2026 Vuelta a Extremadura began with an 18-kilometre individual time trial around Herrera del Duque, short enough to reward aggression, long enough to punish any hesitation, and made considerably harder by persistent […]
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