RCS Sport has indicated that it might relaunch a girls’s Milan-San Remo as quickly as 2025 with a route that may possible embrace the Cipressa and Poggio climbs. According to a report in HLN, organisers might transfer forward with implementing their plans for the race subsequent week.
A girls’s model of Milan-San Remo, the Primavera Rosa was held from 1999 to 2005, and Trixi Worrack received the final version. It adopted the ultimate 118km of the boys’s race and likewise included the Cipressa and Poggio.
This is not the primary time that hypothesis has surfaced surrounding the attainable relaunch of the ladies’s race, as organisers urged it might occur in 2023. Last yr, Paolo Bellino, General Manager and CEO of RCS Sport, additionally informed the Italian press that an occasion might occur in 2024.
RCS Sport just lately took over the long-standing Giro d’Italia Women on a four-year contract that begins this yr and ends in 2027.
Around the time of that announcement hypothesis grew in regards to the organisation additionally relaunching a girls’s Milan-San Remo in 2024 and presumably a girls’s Il Lombardia sooner or later. They are the one two Monuments that don’t at the moment embrace a girls’s race.
The girls’s peloton competes at many of the prestigious WorldTour occasions – Flanders Classics’ Tour of Flanders and ASO’s Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Only one rider has received all three, with Lizzie Deignan profitable the Tour of Flanders in 2016, Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2020 and Paris-Roubaix in 2021.
It is speculated that the Milan-San Remo girls’s race route might start in Genoa and finish in San Remo. However, final yr, Bellino urged that the route might begin additional west alongside the coast from Arenzano to San Remo.
The Trofeo Alfredo Binda, a long-standing top-tier one-day girls’s race, is held in Cittiglio alongside Lake Maggiore, greater than 300km north of San Remo. It is at the moment held the day after the boys’s Milan-San Remo, so the addition of a girls’s Milan-San Remo held on the identical weekend might require a reshuffling of the spring Women’s WorldTour calendar.
Although HLN reported that RCS Sport might request the ladies’s and males’s Milan-San Remo occasions be held on the identical day, it might be a logistical problem to host two Women’s WorldTour one-day occasions on the identical weekend, just like Strade Bianche.
HLN additionally reviews {that a} assembly of the Professional Cycling Council (PPC) is scheduled with the UCI to debate the Women’s WorldTour calendar and the potential of including a girls’s Milan-San Remo.
