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Video: UCI highlights of opening two rounds of 2013 Women's World Cup

Coverage of the Ronde Van Drenthe and the Trofeo Binda released ahead of today's Flèche Wallonne Féminine...

Ahead of today's Round 4 of the UCI Women's World Cup, the Flèche Wallonne Féminine - a race that Rabobank rider Marianne Vos is looking to win for the fifth time - the UCI has made available highlights of the first two races of this year's competition, Dutch event the Ronde Van Drenthe, and Italian race, the Trofeo Binda.

There's some spoilers below the video, so if you don't know the result of those races and want to keep it that way until you watch the highlights, don't peep...!

The former, ridden on rain-soaked roads, was won by Vos, who also won the third race in this year's competition, the Tour of Flanders, while Italy's Elisa Longo Borghini of Hitec put in a cracking solo ride in even filthier weather to take what is for her a local race - she comes from the other side of Lake Maggiore.

Vos currently tops the standings on 174 points ahead of fellow Dutchwoman Eleonora Van Dijk of Specialized-Lululemon, who has 135 points with Swedish rider Emma Johansson of GreenEdge third, a further 15 points back. Unlike Vos, both those riders have been on the podium in each of the three World Cup races so far this year.

The UCI video coverage is produced by British companies Spokesmen and Deadline Productions.

 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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