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There was joy for Team Visma | Lease a Bike on stage 3 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana as Wout van Aert took a powerful sprint win ahead of Kaden Groves. From tomorrow onwards however, the team's focus will shift to defending Sepp Kuss' Vuelta a Espana title.Aside from Dylan van Baarle's sad abandon on...

The Silk Road Mountain Race podcast is back for 2024, and the first two episodes are ready for listening. Find them both here for a detailed recap of the first two days of the event...The post 2024 Silk Road Mountain Race Podcast: Days 1-2 appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

To put it in Euro per kilometre, the 2023 men's Tour paid 142.94 per km while the women earned 52.7 per km

Stage 4 of the Vuelta a Espaa sees the race cross the border into Spain and immediately with an insanely hard day. It's the first day in the mountains and the first of nine summit finishes throughout the 21 days of racing. We preview the day that ends in Pico Villuercas, where the brutal gradients...

After three stages of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana, Mathias Vacek is sitting pretty in 3rd overall and wearing the White Jersey of Best Young Rider.Whilst it might have been a bit of a long shot, having started the day just 5 seconds down on Red Jersey wearing Wout van Aert, Vacek knew that somehow, if...

After nine stages of the Tour de France in his career, Wout van Aert can now call himself a stage winner of the Vuelta a Espana also after a powerful display of sprinting in the finale of 3 at the 2024 edition of the Spanish Grand Tour."That's nice that it works out like that. It's worth it to be p...

CyclistThe best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024The 2024 Tour de France Femmes was unforgettable. With its first Grand Dpart outside France, a classic double stage day, breakaway brilliance, a French victor and jaw-dropping drama from start to finish, its going to be a tough one to top.While were fortunate enough that we can turn our attention from this race to the mens Vuelta, were not done with the Femmes yet.To fill our photo album from one of the best races of the year (and some are saying the best finish ever), weve selected our favourite pictures from the race courtesy of ASO photographers Charly Lopez and Thomas Maheux.The GOAT has been inspiring future generations for years. Shes probably the reason half the peloton got into cycling.It wouldnt be a Dutch Grand Dpart without one.The sprinting war in the Hague didnt go as expected with DSMs Charlotte Kool coming out on top after SD Worxs pre-race favourite Lorena Wiebes had a mechanical.Dutch stars everywhere.Stage 1 was no fluke though. Kool proved she was the worthy winner, outsprinting her former teammate Wiebes.Out of all the days to have a mechanical in a TT. On your gold bike, on your first race since winning gold, in the Tour de France, in a race where margins are seconds. Tour de France stage victories mean more, even when youre defending champion.As the race left the Netherlands, the hills began in earnest with a Classic stage, and the cream rose to the top.Puck Pieterse has barely raced on the road in her pro career and is still only 22.Next Dutch GOAT? You wouldnt bet against it.Shoutout to Tashkent Citys Yanina Kuskova, who finished the race despite losing all her teammates very early on. Big chapeau.A classic photo of the genre.SD Worx glory on Stage 5.A.S.O./Charly LopezSD Worx pain on Stage 5. Cdrine Kerbaol cemented her place in history as the first French stage winner at the Tour de France Femmes.There were celebrations all round.AG Insurance-Soudals Justine Ghekiere had herself a big day out in the greatest jersey in cycling.Meanwhile the fight for yellow began.Bam.Think she might remember that one for a while.Vollerings attack with over 50km to go on the final stage set up one of the greatest days racing most of us have ever seen.And an incredible Dutch display on the Dutch mountain had the whole world biting their nails.With just two seconds separating Demi Vollering and Paulina Rooijakkers overall, there were mind games to be had.But behind it was all about power.Not a dry eye in sight. What a race, what a racer.Chapeau Demi Vollering, that mustve been the most difficult podium celebration shes ever had. Thats what team work does. Related Posts The climbs that will decide the Vuelta a Espaa 2024 Cyclists Tour de France Femmes predictions 2024 vita Muzic interview: If I had to choose between the Olympics or the Tour de France, it would be the Tour de France Cyclists 2024 Vuelta a Espaa predictions Vuelta a Espaa 2024: Route, start list, how to watch and all you need to know The post The best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024 appeared first on Cyclist.

Now 40 years of age,Euskaltel - Euskadi's Luis Angel Mate is in the 12th and final Vuelta a Espana of his near two decade long career. Proving he still has it though, the Spaniard will don the polka-dot jersey on stage for the 2024 edition of his home Grand Tour after two long days in the breakaway...

CyclistTour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future starsKasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) won the Tour de France Femmes 2024 by just four seconds ahead of Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) after a week of enthralling racing, with Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) completing the podium.Niewiadoma held the yellow jersey since Stage 5 and, after a dramatic final day finishing atop Alpe dHuez, became the first rider not from the Netherlands to win the race. It was the smallest winning margin in Tour de France history. Here are our key takeaways from the captivating eight stages.Runner-up no moreA.S.O./Thomas MaheuxA win of this magnitude has been a long time coming for Kasia Niewiadoma. At some moments it felt as if she were destined to a life of second and third places on podiums, having picked up almost 30 of them since last winning a race. That all changed at this years La Flche Wallonne.The finale of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes on Alpe dHuez echoed last years edition on the Tourmalet. Niewiadoma ahead on the road in 2023 but on the general classification in 2024 with Demi Vollering doing everything she could on a the races final climb to overcome her. This time things were different, however. In 2024, Niewiadoma rode in the maillot jaune, after it slipped out of Vollerings hands following a crash on Stage 5, and was defending it with everything she had.It was only a matter of time until Vollering attacked on the final stage. The decisive move came on the ascent of the Col du Glandon, 53km from the finish. She immediately built a gap alongside Rooijakkers as Niewiadoma remained without teammates yet surrounded by riders fighting for their own positions, including Lidl-Treks Gaia Realini and FDJ-Suezs vita Muzic, so their gap remained steady around one minute.The two were night and day. Niewiadoma, struggling to hold on to the virtual maillot jaune with Vollering out in front and just one last ascent between her and a famous victory. It wasnt going to be easy. Rooijakkers also knew how much was at stake and knew what Vollering was willing to give in the fight for yellow everything. As such, the defending champion was left to do most of the work herself. Meanwhile Niewiadoma was able to rely on Lucinda Brand of Lidl-Trek, who was pushing hard to help her teammate.It was a final day for the ages. Vollering distanced Rooijakkers in the last corner, winning the stage and taking ten bonus seconds. She had done all she could. Now a painful wait was on.It was the ride of Niewiadomas life. She battled to the line, emptying herself in the process, and finished a minute behind Vollering, just missing out on the final bonus seconds. She had won the Tour de France Femmes by four seconds, the closest winning margin in Tour history. Her reaction to the confirmation that shed done enough was priceless. Sat on the ground, she burst into tears, pain and joy coming out all at once. Related Posts The best photos from the womens Olympic Road Race Paris 2024 Anna van der Breggen to return to racing in 2025 Kasia Niewiadoma is cyclings latest example for why you should never give up Every year there are more and more riders that are capable of winning: Q&A with Kasia Niewiadoma Vuelta a Espaa 2024: Route, start list, how to watch and all you need to know SD Worx-Protimes costly reactionA.S.O./Charly LopezTears fell for Vollering too. It was a painful second place for the defending champion. If you had to mark one pivotal point in the race, it would be the crash on Stage 5 to Amnville and SD Worx-Protimes reaction to it that contributed to the loss of the maillot jaune.On that day, with 6.2km to the finish line, a crash coming out of a roundabout took down a lot of riders, crucially outside the 3km-to-go mark where times are neutralised. Those crashed included Vollering, Puck Pieterse and British road race champion Pfeiffer Georgi. Vollering got back up on her bike with road rash on her left hip, clearly in some pain. She was chasing on valiantly, but surprisingly had no teammates for support. There was an expectation as you see all the time in cycling that those ahead would drop back to help their leader. They didnt.Eventually she found herself with one teammate in Mischa Bredewold who, after the stage, admitted she hadnt realised Vollering had crashed. Up ahead, teammate Blanka Vas won the stage and later said, My radio was not working. Lorena Wiebes finished eighth and admitted she did see something yellow on the ground. Bredewold, Niamh Fisher-Black and Christine Majerus all finished over four minutes back.It must have been a hard pill to swallow. Vollering is set to depart SD Worx-Protime at the end of the season but this decision should not affect a team attempting to defend their title at the biggest race on the calendar. It left them looking chaotic, unprofessional even, and ultimately cost Vollering yellow.She tried so hard, and fought through pain on the last stage only to fall short by just four seconds. Cycling can be so heartwarming, and in the same breath, so heartbreaking.Puck Pieterse is phenomenalA.S.O./Charly LopezPuck Pieterses abilities off-road are well documented, with victories and titles galore in cyclocross and mountain biking.She rode her first couple of road races in 2023, but this year had an exceptional spring Classics season with a podium at Trofeo Alfredo Binda and sixth place at the Tour of Flanders. The latter was her last road race prior to the Tour de France Femmes and she showed up to the start line alongside her Fenix-Deceuninck teammates aiming to leave a mark on the race, and boy did they.Stage 4 was a 122km hilly day that combined the hardest parts of Amstel Gold Race and Lige-Bastogne-Lige. The team were well represented at the head of the race with a trio of riders to the fore at the summit of the Cote de la Redoute. When Vollering and Niewiadoma began to ride away, only Pieterse and teammate Rooijakkers could stay with them. Rooijakkers was later dropped and the trio would contest the win.Pieterse was at the back as Niewiadoma made her move early in the final kilometre and Vollering followed. She launched her sprint just as Vollering looked set for victory and the pair crossed the line within centimetres of each other. It was a lengthy wait for a photo finish but it was Pieterse who was finally confirmed as the winner for her first road victory on the biggest stage of them all.Her impressive Tour de France Femmes campaign didnt stop there. After a stint in the mountains jersey and by riding consistently on the climbs for the remaining stages, she held on to the white jersey for best young rider ahead of Lidl-Treks Shirin van Anrooij.Cdrine Kerbaol and Justine Ghekiere impressA.S.O./Thomas MaheuxAfter a strong finish on Stage 5 that saw her climb to fourth overall, Cdrine Kerbaol claimed the remarkable achievement of being the first French rider to win a stage at the Tour de France Femmes with a brilliant victory on Stage 6. She attacked in the last 15km and drew out Rooijakkers, dropping her a few kilometres later and heading solo to the finish line in Morteau. The former French ITT Champion drew on all her time-trialling experience to keep away, soloing to a stage win at the Tour de France Femmes in entrancing fashion. The same can be said for AG Insurance-Soudals Justine Ghekiere the next day. Resplendent in the polka dot jersey as Queen of the Mountains, she staged an attack from the breakaway on the penultimate climb of the Col de Saint-Jean-de-Sixt. While Vollering and Niewiadoma threw punches at one another behind, Ghekiere managed to eke out enough of a gap that she was able to ride to the finish in shock as she took the biggest victory of her career.Like so many others, she collapsed to the ground at the finish line and sobbed. The wider team, soigneurs included, all came to celebrate with her. And she went on to win the mountains classification too.2025: Anna van der Breggen and Pauline Ferrand-Prvot in the mix?UCI MTBTwo big names in cycling should, fingers crossed, be at the start line of the Tour de France Femmes next year. Anna van der Breggen is making a return to racing and Pauline Ferrand-Prvot returns to the road after a dominant few seasons off-road culminating in Olympic gold.34-year-old Van der Breggen never got the chance to race the Tour de France Femmes with the races first edition coming the year after her retirement. But given how closely she has worked alongside Vollering in her role as DS, it shapes up to be an interesting concept. Van de Breggen is no stranger to stage race success as one of the best riders of her generation, having won four editions of the womens Giro dItalia. Ferrand-Prvot is switching her focus back to the road for 2025 with an eye on the Tour de France Femmes. As an established winner, she has won World Championships in road, cyclocross, gravel and mountain biking and recently achieved her latest goal of a gold medal in the Olympics in the MTB. Shes embracing the new challenge with a three-year contract for Visma-Lease a Bike having previously raced for Rabobank and Canyon-SRAM.Could it be an even better race next year? Surely not. Related Posts The best photos from the womens Olympic Road Race Paris 2024 Anna van der Breggen to return to racing in 2025 Kasia Niewiadoma is cyclings latest example for why you should never give up Every year there are more and more riders that are capable of winning: Q&A with Kasia Niewiadoma Vuelta a Espaa 2024: Route, start list, how to watch and all you need to know The post Tour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future stars appeared first on Cyclist.