Women's Pro Cycling (with spoilers)

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Cathryn

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Darn it - it clashes with the start of the new school year. I'm not sure my insightful 'I like her, she has great hair' comments would quite cut the mustard so I shall stick with four-year-olds, where such sentiments are commonplace!!
 

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Joss Lowden breaks the UCI women's hour record, 48.406 km
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Demi Vollering gets the overall in the women's tour. Hydrangeas all round!

Balsamo won the final stage. Insane that there was no coverage of the world champ winning her first race in the rainbow jersey.
 
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Demi Vollering gets the overall in the women's tour. Hydrangeas all round!

Balsamo won the final stage. Insane that there was no coverage of the world champ winning her first race in the rainbow jersey.

Had a lovely morning in Haverhill with a cycling pal! We got really close to the presentation and then the start through the town centre, and then caught the women flying back through town! I was quite star struck 🤩
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Dogtrousers

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It's nice to read something like this. The UCI in a good light for a change

If I put my hand-wringing-liberal-snowflake hat on, pro cycling often doesn't look very rosy: Lack of diversity, lack of support for women's sport, cosying up with regimes with dodgy human rights records, huge caravans of vehicles and helicopters trundling slowly around following racing and burning tons of fuel. It's enough to make any self respecting lefty cringe. That's why I tend to only wear my sports-fan hat when watching racing.
 
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If I put my hand-wringing-liberal-snowflake hat on, pro cycling often doesn't look very rosy: Lack of diversity, lack of support for women's sport, cosying up with regimes with dodgy human rights records, huge caravans of vehicles and helicopters trundling slowly around following racing and burning tons of fuel. It's enough to make any self respecting lefty cringe. That's why I tend to only wear my sports-fan hat when watching racing.

You're so right...it does make it very awkward, doesn't it ;) At least the women's sport element is changing the tiniest bit to bring us hope.
 
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Cracking start to the year for Elisa Balsamo!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🧡𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓🧡<br><br>Congrats champ! <a href="https://twitter.com/Elisa_balsamo?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@Elisa_balsamo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TrekSegafredo?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@TrekSegafredo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoltaCVFèmines22?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#VoltaCVFèmines22</a> <a href="https://t.co/Nia3PBl830">pic.twitter.com/Nia3PBl830</a></p>&mdash; SC - Volta Comunitat Valenciana Femines (@SetmanaCiclista) <a href="
View: https://twitter.com/SetmanaCiclista/status/1494337684285710341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
">February 17, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Really enjoyed watching the Volta Communitat Valencia over the past few days! There was live coverage for the final 30 kms and there was some excellent racing! Van Vleuten was superb but loads of riders showed early season promise! I’m really excited for the new season! Trek and FdJ had particularly good weeks too!
 
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