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Tiff Cromwell’s Giro Rosa Diary: stage 1

The rainbow bands were on full display up the cobbled street of Santa Maria a Vico yesterday as Marianne Vos (Rabo-Liv) crossed the finish line victorious, comfortably ahead of Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products) and teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Rabo-Liv) in the opening road stage of the Giro Rosa. Australian Specialized-lululemon rider Tiffany Cromwell wrote this […]

Tiff Cromwell’s Giro Rosa Diary: prologue

Over the next 10 days Australia’s Tiffany Cromwell (Specialized-lululemon) is going to be blogging for us from within the 25th Giro Rosa, the women’s Giro d’Italia. It’s the longest and most important stage race on the women’s UCI calendar and a race that attracts the very best riders in the women’s peloton. Here’s Tiff’s report […]

Giro Rosa preview

While most of the cycling world’s attention is focused on the Tour de France Grand Depart in Leeds at the moment, the biggest stage race on the elite women’s calendar, the Giro Rosa, is also about to start. Contested over ten stages – a prologue individual time trial and nine road stages – this year’s […]

The ups and downs of selection for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Cycling Australia recently announced the 41-rider squad that will represent Australia in various cycling disciplines at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in August. Chloe Hosking’s name was on the list and the Canberran is set to line-up in the women’s road race in her second Commonwealth Games. In this piece Chloe writes of the challenge […]

Inside Line: Loren Rowney’s Emakumeen Euskal Bira

The 2014 Emakumeen Euskal Bira finished yesterday after four days of racing in Spain’s Basque Country. “Bira” is actually the only Spanish UCI-classified stage race on the Elite Women’s calendar and it’s a race that’s defined by many tough, selective climbs. While this year’s Bira was thoroughly dominated by the Rabo-Liv squad, theirs is just […]

Lizzie Williams wins Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship after 10-year hiatus

Victoria’s Lizzie Williams has just been announced as the ninth winner of the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship and will soon head to Europe for two months of racing with the Cycling Australia Women’s Endurance Program. As CyclingTips editor Matt de Neef writes, the scholarship has helped some of Australia’s most promising female cyclists take the […]

A chat with Lizzie Williams, winner of the 2014 Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship

Today the Amy Gillett Foundation announced that Victoria’s Lizzie Williams has become the ninth winner of the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship, an honour which includes two months of racing in Europe with the national team. CyclingTips editor Matt de Neef caught up with Lizzie to find out more about her journey back to the sport […]

Inside Line: Mel Hoskins’ Chongming Island World Cup

Round 5 of the UCI Women’s World Cup was raced in China on the weekend: the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup. The single-day race followed the three-day Tour of Chongming stage race with both races taking place on, unsurprisingly, Chongming Island, roughly 50km north of Shanghai. Orica-AIS sprinter Mel Hoskins, who won the three-day […]

Inside Line: Nettie Edmondson’s Friends Life Women’s Tour (part 2)

After months of build-up and excitement the first ever Friends Life Women’s Tour was held in Britain last week. The five-day race attracted the biggest names in the women’s peloton, including world champion Marianne Vos and World Cup leader Lizzie Armitstead. Nettie Edmondson, who splits her time between riding on the track and riding on […]