Armitstead targeting Flanders and Women’s Tour

Having claimed a debut World Cup success at the Ronde van Drenthe last weekend, British champion Lizzie Armitstead has set her sights on at the Tour of Flanders in a fortnight’s time and the inaugural Women’s Tour, which kicks off in eastern England on 7 May. Beyond that, the 25-year-old Briton has two more principal goals: the first-ever edition of the La Course by Le Tour in Paris on 27 July and the Commonwealth Games road race title a week later in Glasgow.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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