It is almost beyond cliché to say that women’s cycling is more exciting than its male counterpart. However, the reason for the cliché is that it is invariably true. This was true more than ever this Classics season, where there were all-time classic races (sorry) at the women’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Paris-Roubaix Femmes, the Tour of Flanders, while the men’s equivalents were all but decided more than an hour from the finish.
These spectacles deserve better than comparison between genders however; it is enough to say that the women’s Classics season was the best that I’ve ever watched and leave it at that. In Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime), Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and more, these races had deserving champions.
