‘Compared to the men’s racing, where there are a few riders – especially one – who win most of the time, in the women’s races it’s much more open.’
So says pro racing photographer Francesco Rachello, and it’s hard to disagree. Over the course of the spring Classics season, while Tadej Pogačar was winning the men’s races seemingly at will, the women’s races were hard-fought and saw multiple different victors.
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad went to Lotte Claes, Strade Bianche to Demi Vollering, Trofeo Alfredo Binda to Elisa Balsamo, Milan-San Remo to Lorena Wiebes, Tour of Flanders to Lotte Kopecky, Paris-Roubaix to Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Amstel Gold to Mischa Bredewold, Flèche Wallonne to Puck Pieterse, Liège-Bastogne-Liège to Kim Le Court…
The script was torn up time and again, making for exciting, unpredictable…