It's been women's week on Cycling Weekly this week and so we should start by congratulating Ellen van Dijk on her pregnancy.
The fact that she's set to become just one of a growing list of mothers in the pro-peloton is a sign of how far the sport has progressed in recent years. When Lizzie Deignan had her daughter Orla in 2018 the fact she was coming back to race seemed unusual and remarkable.
1. Frankly, Lynx have missed a trick here
2. We'd love to see and hour record attempt with one of these, please
3. This makes us feel better about hearing "Oi, Wiggio!" out on British roads all the time
4. We're pretty confident we know what Giulio Ciccone is saying here, we just can't print it
5. Just a typical Paris to Nice Sunday club run
6. We've all been in work meetings like this, right? Right?
7. We hope for Robert's sake he's not riding like a donkey
8. Being very good a bike racing does not mean you have great taste in warm-up music
9. We knew the Paris-Nice TTT format was unusual, we didn't know it was this unusual
10. Dirty tactics
11. Any time is snack time
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