Five conclusions from the 2022 Simac Ladies Tour

Riejanne Markus Lorena Wiebes Audrey Cordon-Ragot at the Simac Ladies Tour 2022 Bas CzerwinskiGetty Images
Riejanne Markus, Lorena Wiebes, and Audrey Cordon-Ragot all left their mark on the race (Image credit: Bas CzerwinskiGetty Images)

After a two week break after the Tour of Scandinavia, Women’s WorldTour stage racing resumed last week with the Simac Ladies Tour, a six-day tour around the Netherlands and one of the longest-standing races on the calendar.

As expected from the Netherlands, the race featured several flat, sprint days, but also included a Queen stage on the hills of the Amstel Gold Race and a rare 18km time trial.

Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.