Amgen Women's Race 2018 - Start List

Start list

Étoile de Bessèges-Tour du Gard stage 1: Late move on hilly finale nets promising Belgian racer Tom Crabbe first win of career

Lukáš Kubiš places second behind 20-year-old Belgian as bunch crumbles on uphill finale.
Exact Cross Maldegem: Marie Schreiber wins from tense four-rider battle on sandy course

Van der Heijden second, Fouquenet third after exciting final laps in Belgium
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'A test for the Tour de France' – Along with Remco Evenepoel, another Belgian star aiming for peak July performance lines up in Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

Cian Uijtdebroeks making season debut in five day race after switch to Movistar
Former Italian pro Andrea Piccolo arrested for possession of counterfeit banknotes

The 24-year-old was fired by EF Education-EasyPost in 2024 after being stopped at border 'on suspicion of transporting Human Growth Hormone'
Are Lorena Wiebes and Elisa Longo Borghini ready to copy and paste last year's success, or will they be challenged? – Analysing the UAE Tour Women contenders

Strong GC field includes Marlen Reusser, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney and Anna van der Breggen, whilst sprinters include Charlotte Kool and Lara Gillespie

'We had things to change' – After cars on course and team withdrawals last season, French race Étoile de Bessèges promises strengthened security measures in 2026

Race gets going in Bellegarde on Wednesday, but with a significantly weaker start list and six fewer WorldTour teams
'We play with money we don't have' – Women's cycling is booming, but as budgets rise by millions and costs grow by 30%, not everyone can keep up

'I can imagine that the UCI wanted to achieve the same level [as men] for women: teams, culture, budget. But they forgot one thing: the sponsor,' says one team manager, as others report doubling budgets as costs rise by 29%. Can women's cycling keep up with its own success? We investigate
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