Summary Uci Cycling Female January and February 2014

We will talk about the first races of the women's cycling year First, we travel to The Tour Femenino de San Luis run from 14 to 18th January It was the first edition of this race, most of the riders were from national teams but the UCI team United HealthCare with Mara Abbott, Sharon Laws and a stunning Hannah Barnes the 20-years-old-british win the first stage in a bunch sprint the second stage had a hard climb in the last kilometres, adn was won by the brand new rider of bizkaia durango clemilda fernándes riding with the Brasilian national team but Alison Powers broke her chances to win the overall. In the 3rd stage the northamerican scape from the bunch and rode solo and won the stage, the peloton arrived more tahn 3 minuntes later so Alison had almost won the Tour de San Luis The fourth day was the ITT (10'6 km) Fernanda Da Silva was the fastest but wasn't able to overcome Alison Powers still leader, Fernanda second and Clemilda third this didn't change in the last stage, a flat circuit for a bunch sprint the cuban rider Arlenis Sierra won and Alison Powers got her two firt victories as pro in the first edition of the Tour femenino de San Luis and from Argentina to Qatar Since the first day riders knew the dificulties of Qatar wind, wind, wind and echelons a group of 21 riders survived in the first stage tha attacks, echelons, wind and Kirsten Wild of Giant Shimano was the fastest and was the first leader in the second stage Anna Van der Breggen Rabobank-Liv attacked in the last km and Charlotte Becker Wiggle Honda Inga Cilvinaite Be Pink and Amy Pieters Giant Shimano joined , rode together and were able to rerach the finish line where Amy Pieters won the stage and took enough bonuses time to lead the overall from her mate Wild in the 3rd the same as in the firs Kirsten Wild won ahead of Lizzie Armitstead taking the lead back from Pieters what a great performance the Giant Shimano did because they also won the 4th stage although Giorgia Bronzini was right behind Wild she wasn't able to overcome her Wild won the overall, Pieters second and third the australian Hosking. 4th overall for Wild who has won 9 stages in the ToQ From Catar to Costa Rica this race was won in the ITT of the second day but let's start with the firs stage the brasilian Flavia Oliveira won in the uphill finish attacking with 6 km to go Alena Amialiusik and Olga Zabelinskaya weren't able to reach her so they loose 6 and 8 seconds but in the ITT 20'4 kilómetres Olga Zabelinskaya showed her strenght in the speciality (she was 3rd in the London Olympics) and won by more than a minute almost won the race the second day with 3 stages to ride in the third the stage was won by Shelley Olds Alé Cipollini Moreover she won almost all the points in the sprint clasification the 4rd day was the Queen Stage Tatiana guderzo attacked with 15 to go but a group of riders with the spaniard Ane Santesteban (who ended 6th) fought for the win Alena Amialiusik Astana BePink was the fastest, but Zabelinskaya kept the lead in the fifth stage Shelley Olds took her second stage ahead her mate Barbara Guarischi Olga Zabelinskaya won the overall , second was Flavia Oliveira and Amialiusik third ¿and in march? several races have finished but the most importants are to come, next saturday the Boels Rental Ronde van Drenthe Women's World Cup and 15 days later the 30th, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda also World Cup in Italy Also ther will be several one-day races In Spain the Torneo Euskaldun will start the 22nd for cadetes y junior in Elorrio (Pays Basque) and elites willl join the 29 y 30 In Zalla and Balmaseda You can follow @cobblesandhills and its women cycling twitter @cobblesandwomen Thanks for watching! Any suggeestion or advice or correction will be welcomed! =)