On your bike: National Road Championships return to Lincoln
For the first time since 2015
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The National Road Championships will take place in Lincoln in October, returning to the city for the first time since 2015.
The event will take place between October 14 and 17, 2021. It will begin with the time trials on the Thursday with the circuit races on Friday and the road races on Sunday.
In addition, there will also be a Sportive on Saturday and the Newells Michaelgate Hill Dash that evening.
For the first time in the event’s history, the national champions’ jersey will be presented for the road race, time trial and circuit in the same week.
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Defending champion Deignan withdraws from Liège-Bastogne-Liège due to illness
Defending champion Lizzie Deignan has been forced to pull out of tomorrow’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège because of illness.
The British rider was initially down to defend her title but Trek-Segafredo have decided to leave her out of their six-strong squad.
Shirin van Anrooij of The Netherlands has been drafted in to replace Deignan for the International Cycling Union Women’s World Tour race in Belgium. Lizzie was sick last week (not COVID) so she isn’t at 100 per cent going into these tough races, a Trek-Segafredo spokesperson told
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VeloNews. “The company approached me because I was young and willing to move, so I spent a week in Germany preparing my interview, which was preparing a lesson for these astronauts. I had to study the satellites and then I had to prepare a lesson for these astronauts. A month later I was called back for the second interview when they were preparing for the Columbus mission so I could enter the Columbus module.”
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