Having seen thousands of spectators lining the streets of Northamptonshire last year, the Friend’s Life Women’s Tour is set to return to the county in 2015, according to the Northamptonshire Herald and Post.
The inaugural race passed through Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Sussex in 2014, with Marianne Vos taking the overall victory.
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Tech of the week: A shockingly expensive steel bike from Colnago, a surprisingly affordable carbon bike from Pinarello, DT Swiss energises our cycling lives and Pog's bars are now yours to buyColnago's Steelnova is a thing of beauty but you'll pay for the pleasure, while Pinarello's F1 is an inexpensive gateway to the brand. DT Swiss enters the dynamo hub market and Enve brings Pog's cockpit to market
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Tweets of the week: Tom Pidcock as a cake, Mark Cavendish speaks Gen Z, and stiletto cycling shoesThere's a likeness beneath the icing
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Tweets of the week: A wholesome Women's Tour edition full of schoolchildren, dancing, and ShrekThe Women's WorldTour comes to England and Wales, and encounters some good things
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Grace Brown takes the stage win after a stunning stage four at the Women’s TourThe Australian proved too powerful in the closing stages as she sprinted to victory in Welshpool
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Lorena Wiebes secures another convincing Women's Tour victory with stage three winThe Team DSM rider powered away from the rest of the field to take her second consecutive stage victory
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Women's Tour organiser seeking title partner to deliver live coverage of eventSweetSpot is hoping to raise £75,000 from a sponsor so it can broadcast the race live and adhere to UCI rules
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Life through a lens on the Women's TourWriter James Shrubsall swapped his pen and paper for a camera and joined Simon Wilkinson at the Women's Tour last year
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Tour of Britain and Women's Tour generated £34 million in 2021, research reveals1.3 million spectators also watched 14 days of racing across the two events
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The Women's Tour will not be broadcast live on TV in 2021Despite having an agreement with Eurosport GCN the women's Tour of Britain is not able to broadcast live
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Strava survey shows majority of female riders feel there are no barriers to cyclingSixty per cent of women surveyed by Strava believe there are no barriers to entry for women who want to cycle
