Battle of the North renamed Tour of Scandinavia in light of Ukraine war

HALDEN NORWAY AUGUST 15 A general view of the peloton during the 7th Ladies Tour Of Norway 2021 Stage 4 a 1416km stage from Drbak to Halden LTourOfNorway LTON21 UCIWWT on August 15 2021 in Halden Norway Photo by Luc ClaessenGetty Images

The Ladies Tour of Norway in 2021 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

The Tour of Scandinavia – previously billed as the Battle of the North – has announced a name change and further details of the 2022 edition of the six-stage Women’s WorldTour race, which is set to take place August 9-14.

The race is a continuation of the long-standing Ladies Tour of Norway, and will include regular features of that race, but this year will also deliver stages across Scandinavia in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Announced in 2019, the race was originally named the Battle of the North, but the organisers have explained that the event will now instead go by the title of Tour of Scandinavia.

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.