E3 Harelbeke could hold women's race in 2018

In recent years, men’s races have increasingly seen the benefit in holding a concurrent women's event. Most of the major Classics now hold a women's race, including the Tour of Flanders, Gent-Wevelgem and the Ardennes races, and it looks like E3 Harelbeke may be about to join their ranks. Lotta Lepistö (Cervelo Bigla) won the women's Dwars door Vlaanderen race on Wednesday, hours before the finish of the men's race.

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