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Four-stage Tour of Britain Women comes to UCI calendar in June 2024

Cycling
by Kieran Wood
Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 15:00
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After the prolonged troubles of the formerly renowned Women's Tour, British Cycling has been working hard to reinvent a women's stage race on the island.
In brilliant new for cycling fans in Great Britain, a new, Tour of Britain Women has been added to the UCI calendar in June 2024, as first spotted by Mathew Mitchell on X (Twitter).

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The former organisers of both the Women's Tour and the Tour of Britain, SweetSpot went into liquidation earlier this year after some long term money concerns that has meant the likes of Wout van Aert among other are still waiting for their prize money payout for their performances at the race in 2023.
With British Cycling taking over the organisation in the wake of this, they've quickly set about attempting to clean up the image of the race and a new, revamped and renamed Tour of Britain Women is a very positive start.

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