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BBC News
12-04-2025
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- BBC News
Ferrand-Prevot wins women's Paris-Roubaix race
Olympic mountain bike champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot has become the first Frenchwoman to win the Paris-Roubaix road Visma-Lease a Bike rider broke clear with about 15km of the 148.5km route remaining, and crossed the line in a time of three hours 40 minutes seven arrived in the Roubaix velodrome on her own to cheers from a partisan home crowd, finishing 58 seconds ahead of Italy's Letizia Borghesi, with Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands just behind."It was a great day for us. I didn't expect this to be honest," said Ferrand-Prevot, 33, who won mountain bike cross-country gold at Paris 2024. "I was confident that the team could do something really good. But you also needed to have some luck and to put everything together."The cross-discipline rider was making her debut in the race, having rejoined the road circuit in 2025 after a decade's champion Lotte Kopecky of Belgium finished 12th, a place ahead of Great Britain's Pfeiffer Georgi, while compatriot Zoe Backstedt was victory came despite a fall 53km from the end of the race, which features 17 cobbled sectors totalling 29.2km. She had also suffered from illness in the build-up."I've been sick for the last two days. I didn't even know if I was going to start," she said. "In the end, I did the right thing by coming."I started thinking I was going to do my best to help [team-mate] Marianne Vos win. I can't believe it."Ferrand-Prevot said she had started to "really enjoy" her comeback on the road, and that winning the Tour de France Femmes, which takes place from 26 July to 3 August, was her "main goal"."I really want to be 100% for Tour de France. And want to try to win Tour de France within three years," she said."We are building something very strong together as a team."The men's Paris-Roubaix race takes place on Sunday.
NBC Sports
12-04-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Ferrand-Prevot discusses Paris-Roubaix Femmes win
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot describes her emotions after becoming the first French winner of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes, explaining what went into her impressive victory.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Britain's Evie Richards makes mountain biking history as most decorated female short-track rider
British rider Evie Richards has become the most decorated female short-track cross-country rider in history with victory in Araxa this weekend. The reigning world champion made it back-to-back wins in Brazil after winning the opening round of the UCI Cross-country Short Track (XCC) World Cup, held on the same course last weekend, and secured the double on Friday. It was her seventh win in the short-track discipline and saw her overtake French great and Olympic champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot in the elite women's all-time rankings. "I think when you're world champion and you're leading the series, there's a lot of pressure, so I was really nervous before," she said. "We had a bit of a rough plan, but nothing changes too much. You've just got to [think] on your feet and depending on how the race goes, you can't really have a plan." The 28-year-old had an easier time of it in the first round, a race which she hadn't particularly targeted to win, marking her competitors' moves and launching a decisive attack on the final steep climb of the race to solo away to victory ahead of Australian Samara Maxwell. This time Richards was closely marked by Swiss racer Nicole Koller and Sweden's Jenny Rissveds, only distancing them in the closing metres with a long-range sprint for the line as the pair failed to hold her wheel. In the men's race, American Christopher Blevins also secured the Araxa double after victory on the first weekend of the season.
The Independent
12-04-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Britain's Evie Richards makes mountain biking history as most decorated female short-track rider
British rider Evie Richards has become the most decorated female short-track cross-country rider in history with victory in Araxa this weekend. The reigning world champion made it back-to-back wins in Brazil after winning the opening round of the UCI Cross-country Short Track (XCC) World Cup, held on the same course last weekend, and secured the double on Friday. It was her seventh win in the short-track discipline and saw her overtake French great and Olympic champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot in the elite women's all-time rankings. "I think when you're world champion and you're leading the series, there's a lot of pressure, so I was really nervous before," she said. "We had a bit of a rough plan, but nothing changes too much. You've just got to [think] on your feet and depending on how the race goes, you can't really have a plan." The 28-year-old had an easier time of it in the first round, a race which she hadn't particularly targeted to win, marking her competitors' moves and launching a decisive attack on the final steep climb of the race to solo away to victory ahead of Australian Samara Maxwell. This time Richards was closely marked by Swiss racer Nicole Koller and Sweden's Jenny Rissveds, only distancing them in the closing metres with a long-range sprint for the line as the pair failed to hold her wheel. In the men's race, American Christopher Blevins also secured the Araxa double after victory on the first weekend of the season.
BBC News
11-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Briton Richards makes cross-country history
Great Britain's Evie Richards has become the most successful female short track cross-country rider ever with victory in 28-year-old won the second round of the UCI Cross-country Short Track (XCC) World Cup in Araxa, a week after she finished first in the opening victory was the reigning world champion's seventh in the format, overtaking Olympic champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot as the most successful elite woman in XCC was pushed until the end by Switzerland's Nicole Koller and Sweden's Jenny Rissveds, but kept them at bay during a sprint for the line."I think when you're world champion and you're leading the series, there's a lot of pressure, so I was really nervous before," she said. "We had a bit of a rough plan, but nothing changes too much. You've just got to [think] on your feet and depending on how the race goes, you can't really have a plan."American Christopher Blevins took the men's elite race, having also won the first round a week Mesto na Morave in the Czech Republic will host the next round from 23-25 May.
