Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[yaco]

Gigante out for around six months with the iliac injury. Disappointing because she had a sneakily good year in 2024. Managed to settle into Europe and rode a full calendar. Should have finished 4th or 5th in the TDF if she could learn to descend. And she would have a better calendar in 2025, as her 2024 calendar left a bit to be desired.

 

[awavey]

Arguably a media piece that is making a mountain out of a molehill for clicks, but interesting that Lotte says she got along fine with Demi.

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...y-hits-back-at-former-teammate-demi-vollering

 

[Didinho]

Letizia Paternoster had a nasty downhill crash in training today. A lot of bruises on her face, around the clavicle and her wrist looks double the size.
Left training camp in Calpe. Another checkup in Italy will give us better info. Hope she’s relatively okay.

 

[yaco]

Letizia Paternoster had a nasty downhill crash in training today. A lot of bruises on her face, around the clavicle and her wrist looks double the size.
Left training camp in Calpe. Another checkup in Italy will give us better info. Hope she’s relatively okay.

Lets hope she os OK because Liv Alula has an ordinary squad for 2025.

 

[Izzyeviel]

For one glorious minute I thought AVV was returning with Alpecin to mess with AVDB & Vollering again.

 

[Didinho]

Letizia back on the bike 8 days after the crash. Good to have her back already.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The Tour of Scandinavia is now officially dead and gone. After it was cancelled last year, I was afraid that that would be it, and the fact that the Tour of Norway will now host a women's race alongside the men's, didn't exactly give me higher hopes.

Whether it would have survived (for longer ) if they had just kept it in and around the Østfold region, I can't say, but you can't fault them for dreaming big. I'd much rather have this race than the UAE Tour, which haven't changed the route one butt (or bit) since the first edition.