Célia Gery took a superb victory on stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, winning in Salice Terme after a fast, tense finale where the late break just managed to hold off the chasing peloton. The FDJ United-SUEZ rider came around Lucinda Brand after the final corner, using the short uphill drag to the […]
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Elisa Balsamo continued her remarkable Giro d’Italia Women with a fourth stage victory of the race, sprinting to win stage 6 in Brescello after a long, tense day that carried the peloton out of the hills and onto the Po Valley. The Lidl-Trek rider came around Maggie Coles-Lyster in the final metres after a superb […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 changes rhythm again on stage 6, moving from the Dolomite climbing of Santo Stefano di Cadore to a flatter 159km route from Ala to Brescello. After the Nevegal uphill time trial and the first major mountain road stage, this is the clearest opportunity for the sprinters to return to the […]
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Women’s cycling sprint finishes are getting faster because the whole race into the sprint is faster. The final 150 metres still belongs to the rider with timing, nerve and acceleration, but the modern sprint is no longer just a late burst from a loose bunch. It is the visible end point of a much quicker […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its first major general classification checkpoint on stage 4, with the riders tackling the uphill individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal. The official start order has now been confirmed, giving a clear shape to how the afternoon will unfold. The stage is listed as a 13km Tudor ITT, […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its first clear general classification checkpoint on stage 4, with a 12.7km individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal. After an opening weekend controlled by the sprinters and a more awkward stage 3 to Buja, the maglia rosa battle now moves into something much more precise: one rider, one […]
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Elisa Balsamo turned a turbulent opening weekend at the Giro d’Italia Women into a perfect one for Lidl-Trek, winning stage 2 in Caorle while wearing the maglia rosa. The Italian had been promoted to the stage 1 victory after Lorena Wiebes was disqualified for a bike-weight infringement, then backed up that unexpected race lead with […]
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Giro d’Italia Women 2026 stage 2 gives the sprinters another major opportunity, but it is not quite as straightforward as the flat opener to Ravenna. The route from Roncade to Caorle on Sunday, 31st May covers 156km, with around 500 metres of climbing and one short, sharp obstacle placed early enough to create tension without […]
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Lorena Wiebes opened the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women with a commanding sprint victory in Ravenna, launching from around 300 metres out and holding off Elisa Balsamo and Lara Gillespie to take the first maglia rosa of the race. The SD Worx-Protime rider had to improvise in the final kilometre after her lead-out became stretched, but […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 will not be decided by the sprinters, but they should shape the opening rhythm of the race. With flat stages to Ravenna, Caorle and Brescello, plus a handful of more awkward days where a reduced sprint is still possible, the fast finishers have enough opportunities to make the maglia ciclamino […]
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Giro d’Italia Women remains one of the defining stage races in the sport because it asks for a fuller range of qualities than almost any other event on the women’s calendar. It is a race with history, weight and a route design that usually demands much more than one big climbing performance. Riders have to […]
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Antwerp Port Epic Ladies 2026 did not just produce a strong winner. It produced one of those results that says something about the direction of the race, the strength of SD Worx-Protime and the kind of rider this event now rewards. Femke Markus won alone after repeated attacks, while Marta Lach and Femke Gerritse completed […]
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Antwerp Port Epic Ladies 2026 takes place on Sunday, 24th May, with the race starting and finishing in Antwerp. It is one of the more distinctive one-day races on the women’s calendar, not because of mountains, but because of the way the route turns flat terrain into something far more wearing. The race sits at […]
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Paris-Roubaix Femmes has already become one of the defining races of the women’s spring, a Monument built not around climbs or repeated accelerations, but around pure endurance, power and nerve across the most unforgiving cobbled sectors in the sport. The route strips racing back to its rawest form. Positioning, bike handling, resilience and team depth […]
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Lorena Wiebes of SD Worx-Protime won In Flanders Fields Women 2026 on Sunday, taking a record third consecutive victory in the race after surviving a tense tactical finish from a five-rider lead group in Wevelgem. The Dutch champion was pushed all the way by Fleur Moors of Lidl-Trek, with Karlijn Swinkels of UAE Team ADQ […]
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The race formerly known as Gent-Wevelgem returns in 2026 under its new title, In Flanders Fields Women, but the core identity remains unmistakable. This is still one of the most tactically complex races of the spring, built on exposed roads, gravelly Plugstreets, and the repeated challenge of the Kemmelberg. It sits in that awkward space […]
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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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Lotte Kopecky’s spring needed a result that felt like her, not an explanation, not a “what if?”, not another afternoon where the story is bad luck rather than legs. In Nokere, she finally got it. The SD Worx-Protime leader took her first win of 2026 with a measured, clinical sprint on the Waregemsestraat, beating Charlotte […]
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There is a particular kind of Belgian one-day race that does not announce itself with famous names or mythologised climbs, but still has a way of producing exactly the riders it deserves. Leeuw-Oetingen sits in that category. The Pajottenland roads are not Flanders and the Zavelberg is not the Muur, but by the time the […]
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Le Samyn des Dames rarely gives you a quiet afternoon, and the 2026 edition leaned fully into that reputation. Over 133.4 kilometres from Quaregnon to Dour, the race piled repeated cobbled sectors, short climbs and constant position fights on top of an already tired peloton coming out of Opening Weekend. The key difference this time […]
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Omloop van het Hageland has a very specific way of making riders look uncomfortable. Not because there is one giant climb or one famous cobbled berg that decides everything, but because the whole day is built around friction. Narrow concrete lanes, constant corners, short ramps that force repeated accelerations, and cobbles placed just close enough […]
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Stage 3 of the 2026 UAE Tour Women looked, on paper, like the calm before the storm. One more flat day in Abu Dhabi, one more sprint expected, one more chance for the sprinters to bank time and confidence before the race tilts upwards on Jebel Hafeet. In reality, it was a day that never […]
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Stage 1 of the 2026 edition of the UAE Tour Women was drawn as the straightforward one, a flat 111km run from Al Mirfa to Madinat Zayed, where the sprint teams could take a breath before the race tilts towards the climbers later in the week. Instead, it rode like most days in the Emirati […]
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