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Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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In much better news, the Challenge Mallorca starts tomorrow (Saturday).

2nd Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx (1.1)
Marratxi › Felanitx (129.1km)

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Will be live on Eurosport/Discovery+/Max.
 
The European season was supposed to have started last weekend with the fourth edition of the Women Cycling Pro Costa De Almería, but it got its UCI licence revoked a few days before.

The routes for the Mallorcan races are not that different from last year, but the Coll den Claret is not part of the Trofeo Palma this time around, which makes the race shorter and easier on paper, and the little kicker Coll de S'Arracó has been removed from the final in Andratx on Monday. We'll see how that will affect the races.
 
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Perfect leadout from EF, and Henttala defends the title for the team. Consonni was second and Coles-Lyster third. Top 10 for Carys Lloyd in her first ever elite race, and six riders in that top 10 were riding their first races for their current teams.

While Lloyd is the youngest WWT rider at the moment, Emily Dixon, who was born two days before Lloyd, was younger than her when she rode in TDU last week.
 
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Perfect leadout from EF, and Henttala defends the title for the team. Consonni was second and Coles-Lyster third. Top 10 for Carys Lloyd in her first ever elite race, and six riders in that top 10 were riding their first races for their current teams.

While Lloyd is the youngest WWT rider at the moment, Emily Dixon, who was born two days before Lloyd, was younger than her when she rode in TDU last week.
Perfect leadout from EF, and Henttala defends the title for the team. Consonni was second and Coles-Lyster third. Top 10 for Carys Lloyd in her first ever elite race, and six riders in that top 10 were riding their first races for their current teams.

While Lloyd is the youngest WWT rider at the moment, Emily Dixon, who was born two days before Lloyd, was younger than her when she rode in TDU last week.

Whilst Lloyd will always be the youngest world tour rider under the current rules could Dixon be the yongest ever to race.
Anyway Marianne Vos was world champion before they were born.