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‘I do this sport because I love it’ – Amanda Spratt still finding new adventures in retirement season and 20th year of racing in Europe

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 31: Amanda Spratt of Australia and Team Lidl - Trek reacts after the 10th Mapei Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2026, Women's Elite a 141.2km one day race from Geelong to Geelong / #UCIWWT / on January 31, 2026 in Geelong, Australia. (Photo by Con Chronis/Getty Images)

After Amanda Spratt announced her retirement at the start of the year you might think she’d spend the season doing things for the final time, but in an odd twist she is currently riding the UAE Tour Women for the first time in her long career.

With all its glittering high rise buildings and choking traffic, the UAE is modernity itself, but despite only being in its fourth edition, the UAE Tour Women is a throwback to a time Spratt remembers well.

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