The women’s Spring Classics are well underway, but the racing is about to really ramp up a notch, with Saturday’s Milan-San Remo opening a busy period of races that won’t let up until Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
The first Classics already completed – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Strade Bianche and Trofeo Alfredo Binda – have been exciting and interesting, but they’ve also raised a lot of questions.
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What form is Lotte Kopecky actually in?
This was one of the biggest questions on everyone’s mind before Lotte Kopecky made her season debut at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and even though she’s raced three more times since then, I’m not sure we quite have the answer yet. Coming back from a back injury that wrecked much of her 2025 season, Kopecky is returning with a renewed focus on her lifeblood of one-day racing – no more GC experiments – so everyone wants to know what kind of level she is at this spring.
And so far? It’s not quite clear. At Omloop, a hold-up before the Muur van Geraardsbergen saw her out of contention at the key moment, and in Strade Bianche, she missed the winning move, and then a wrong turn quashed the chances of her chasing group coming back.
Seventh in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda was a positive sign, and she won at Nokere Koerse but not in particularly impressive fashion – she couldn’t really get away with an attack and just ground out the sprint against a not-quite-top-tier field. A win is a win, but it doesn’t tell us whether she’s on par with Elisa Longo Borghini and Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney.
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