The start of a new season of the Women’s WorldTour is about to get underway, and it's happening just about as far away from the wintery European base of racing as you can get with the annual pilgrimage to Australia for the Women’s Tour Down Under.
The three-stage tour in and around Adelaide is the first chance riders will get to build that winning momentum for a new year, but it is also one of those races where there are so many unknowns. Riders are settling into new teams and are at varying stages of their rebuild following the off-season, some will be settling in for a first race with a new team, while others will be grappling with the shock to the system of coming from icy temperatures to the hot Australian mid-summer weather where stockings filled with ice are dolled out by the esky load.
