Lizzie Deignan: You don’t start a family to break boundaries

Lizzie Deignan celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the first edition of the women's Paris-Roubaix
Lizzie Deignan celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the first edition of the women's Paris-Roubaix (Image credit: Getty Images)

From March 6-12 - conveniently coinciding with International Women's Day on March 8 - Cyclingnews is excited to welcome our readers to Women's Week, in which we'll be running a series of exclusive interviews, features, blogs, tech, advice and more.

When the subject of motherhood in professional cycling comes up in conversation, Lizzie Deignan is certain to be one of the first names mentioned. After taking a full maternity leave period in 2018 to have her first child, Deignan returned to great success, winning the Women’s Tour just weeks into her comeback and going on to win the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes

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.