Blog - Women's cycling

Marion Rousse director of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the sponsors and ... the end of the Le Coq Sportif sponsorship?

While she was commenting Paris-Tours on France Télévisions, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organisor of the Tour de France and starting next year also of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, announced that Marion Rousse becomes the director of this new feminin version of the race.

On RMC, Christian Prudhomme commented this announcement and also discussed the financial question of female races and thus necessarily the question about sponsors. And that gives us the occasion to talk about Le Coq Sportif as well .. or rather about its removal as a sponsor of the Tour, in a difficult financial context for the French brand.

Marion Rousse, director of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

Looking back at the week: La Course by Le Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix 2014, ...

There was quite some news in the cycling world this week, like for example the announcement of La Course by Le Tour de France, a new women's race, the first informations about Paris-Roubaix 2014, but also the first edition of the Dubai Tour and the start of the cycling season in France for example.

In this article, we'll have a quick look at these different news items, in case you missed them or simply to allow you to comment them if you want to!

La Course by Le Tour de France: a very partial ... Le Tour Entier?

Arthur Vichot (FDJ) will wear blue-white-red this year as the new French Champion!

Under a nice sun on the roads of the Pays des Abers we saw a group of 11 riders get away from the peloton pretty early in the race in line men elite of the French Championships 2013 today. In the end, one of the riders of this group, Arthur Vichot manages to stay ahead with two other competitors and the rider of the FDJ team attacked at the right moment in the last kilometer to win the race and thus become the new French Champion.

The blue-white-red jersey thus remains in Marc Madiot's team since Nacer Bouhanni put his precious jersey up stake this morning.

The summary of the race in line men of the French Championships 2013

The women's team HTC-Highroad continues as Team Specialized lululemon

After the announcement that Rabobank will take over the Nederland Bloeit team last week, today came the news that the HTC-Highroad's women's team will continue as Team Specialized lululemon with a new management structure.

When the news came a few months ago that the HTC-Highroad team was to disappear, Bob Stapleton, the manager of Highroad, indicated he would try to do his best to let the women's team continue. That has been confirmed today, no longer managed by Highroad but still with Highroad as one of it's sponsors ...

The main sponsors however are Specialized Bicycle Company and lululemon athletica.

Specialized Bicycle Company

Rabobank takes over the Nederland Bloeit team and thus enters women's cycling

The rumours had it since a few days already, the Dutch bank confirmed it at the end of this afternoon: Rabobank adds a a women's team as it's fourth cycling team.

In 2012 it will be the 16th year that Rabobank sponsors a cycling team. Indeed, in 1996 the Rabobank pro team started. Also present as a sponsor of the Dutch federation KNWU, of the U23 team Rabobank Continental Team and since 2010 also as the sponsor of an off road team (cyclo cross and mountain bike) which is called Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team, Rabobank has always very well taken up the role of a responsible sponsor of Dutch cycling*.
Indeed, the goal has always been to allow Dutch cycling to progress globally in both branches (road and "offroad"). This will again be the case, from 2012, in wo ...

Looking back at the Grand Prix Plouay ladies - video finish and interviews

Yesterday, the Grand Prix de Plouay Bretagne ladies saw the victory of Annemiek van Vleuten (see the article Annemiek van Vleuten wins the UCI World Cup ladies with a victory in Plouay) of the Nederland Bloeit team.
Today I propose you to look back on this race with a video which allows you to see the finish of this race and with interviews with Annemiek van Vleuten after her victory, with Marianne Vos who worked hard for her and with their directeur sportif and former stage winner on the Tour de France, Jeroen Blijlevens.

The video of the finish of the Grand Prix de Plouay Bretagne - ladies

Annemiek van Vleuten wins the UCI World Cup ladies with a victory in Plouay

At the occasion of the last race of the UCI World Cup ladies, velowire.com offers you a summary of this race in Brittany which took place today.

This afternoon in Plouay the Grand Prix de Plouay Bretagne took place and was part of the UCI World Cup ladies.

Despite a solo raid by Emma Pooley (Team Garmin-Cervélo), winner in 2009 and 2010, Annemiek van Vleuten won this race thanks to a remarkable job of her team mate Marianne Vos.

The summary of the Grand Prix de Plouay Bretagne - ladies