Reasons to be cheerful
The closing stages of season are always a tough time for road cycling fans, but there's plenty to be grateful for as we hurtle headlong towards winter...
Katy Madgwick
Writing about cycling - the stories, the facts, the opinions, the interviews, the silly poems, the movie comparisons. You name it, if it's about bike racing, I'm stringing sentences together about it.
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Le Tour Femmes Dispatch: Stage 6
A great day for the French, a great day for the race, and a great day for women's cycling - all the action and stunning images from stage 6.
Le Tour Femmes Dispatch: Stage 5
A day of mixed fortunes at the Tour de France Femmes - catch up on all the action and imagery in today's Dispatch
Le Tour Femmes Dispatch: Stage 4
Stage 4 was a distillation of the Ardennes Classics, and it provided similarly scintillating racing, as the peloton departed the Netherlands and headed into Belgium. Catch up on the day in today's Dispatch.
Le Tour Femmes Dispatch: Stages 2 & 3
Two stages in one day was a tall order for everyone involved - but it's the Tour de France Femmes, and everyone brought their A game - catch up on both stages, meet Quinty Ton of Liv-AlUla Jayco and enjoy some stunning imagery courtesy of Justin Britton
Le Tour Femmes Dispatch: Stage 1
It's finally here - stage 1 of the Tour de France Femmes saw the peloton arrive in Rotterdam ahead of eight days of full gas racing for yellow. Catch up on the first stage, look ahead to the second, and meet Silke Smulders of Team Jayco-AlUla, in the first of the Dispatches.