Team DSM bolster their Women’s program in 2022 with the signing of three exciting talents: Charlotte Kool, Léa Curinier and Francesca Barale. Kool joins the team until at least the end of 2022, while Curinier and Barale will race in the team’s distinctive two striped jersey through 2023. Charlotte Kool (Ned) At 22 years old, Charlotte Kool has steadily progressed through the cycling ranks, improving as a rider year-on-year. As a junior, Kool finished second in the 2016 Dutch national road race behind future teammate Lorena Wiebes, going on to find her feet in the elite peloton in the following…
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
We produced some of our all-time best content at Eurobike 2010. DerailedUK, two stand-up comedians with their own Channel 4 sitcom, two cameramen, all taking a week at the zeppelin factory in Friedrichshafen to look at bikes. But somehow, all that content is lost. We found a notebook with a rough outline of the jokes we told in one of the accompanying articles, but that’s it. No footage of us tricking a saddle manufacturer into telling us their product “fits like a bum glove.” No footage of a robot telling us that he’s a child when we insinuated he had…
With both the spectacular Passo Falzarego and Passo Valles on the menu yesterday, the second stage of the 2021 Haute Route Dolomites certainly kept riders on their toes. This 135km stage from Cortina d’Ampezzo to Trento saw riders climb over 3000m over the course of the day.The GC battle kicked into high gear with Frenchman Loic Ruffaut taking the stage win over Marco Rodero Prada, closing the GC gap to just one minute. Mathilde Terrasson from France took the women’s stage win over Magali Krawiec and Mathilde Flandinet.
Britain has produced some of the best female Olympic cyclists of all time, including Elinor Barker, Laura Kenny and Victoria Pendleton, to name a few. However, 42% of women in the UK still don’t feel safe cycling on the roads with 41% feeling vulnerable and having no confidence. Surprisingly, the green city of Brighton fared the highest with 50% of women feeling unsafe cycling on the roads, followed by Bristol (48%), Southampton (46%) and Plymouth (45%). The data showed that the women of Newcastle had fewer concerns over safety whilst riding (27%). Of all the women surveyed, 43% ranked safety…
XTERRA Nouvelle Aquitaine switched it up for the fourth and finalstop of the XTERRA Short Track season. Introducing a new format which involved two stages, athletes first had to qualify in the full distance the day before. The first stage of the Short Track involved a 400m swim in the Lac de Cadie, followed by an all-out 1.5km run. After the short but sweet stage in the morning, elite athletes then got ready to attack from the off with a 7km bike and 1.8km run around the village of Pujols that afternoon.Perfect weather conditions with blue skies set the stage for the women’s race, who were ready to race amongst the old churches and vineyards of the Bordeaux region. Michelle Flipo (MEX) was quick to take the…
The 10th edition of the Haute Route Alps came to a thrilling finish on the shoreline of Nice yesterday after seven punishing days riding through France’s finest roads. Antonio Garnero topped the men’s results to hold onto the top General Classification position over Loic Ruffaut. Luise Valentin beat Lisa Bowyer to complete her clean sweep of the women’s stage wins and top the women’s GC standings.
XTERRA France Nouvelle-Aquitaine is back for a second edition on August 28th-29th, after hosting its first full distance race in 2020. This year, the event will also see elite athletes lining up for some action-packed racing in the Short Track event on Sunday, promising an unmissable weekend of racing in the beautiful region.Kicking-off with the full distance race on Saturday, age-group and elite athletes will first dive into the beautiful Lac de Cadie to complete the 1,500m swim course, before heading out to complete the 30km bike course and 10km run course, winding through the vineyards that the region is famous for.In the elite race, a spot in Sunday’s adrenaline filled Short Track race…
Highlights Report Stage 2 of the 2021 Haute Route Alps saw 450 cyclists ride 109km from Megève to Tignes, conquering some all-time climbs along the way, including the stunning Cormet de Roselend. Loic Ruffaut topped the mens results, with Garnero Antonio coming in second. Danish rider Luise Valentin beat Lisa Bowyer to the finish line to take the women’s stage win, extending her GC lead. Tomorrow the peloton will take on the Queen Stage of the 2021 event, riding a legendary 182km course with 4700m+ of elevation over some of the finest climbs in the Alps.