Giro Donne

Trek-Segafredo look in good shape when it comes to defending the leader's jersey in the coming days.

Here's the news making headlines for Saturday, July 10.

At 21 years old, Emma Norsgaard is already lighting up the cycling scene wants to emulate her idol Marianne Vos and win it all.

After fading away from cycling with an eating disorder, Mara Abbott gets back to racing her bike

The American loses ground in the final ITT but had more than enough cushion to take the overall

Abbott nails second stage in two days to extend her lead at the women's Giro

American takes solo victory, pink jersey

Dutchwoman tops Evelyn Stevens with long-range sprint ahead of the race's biggest climbing stage

Global Cycling Network checks in on the opening of the Tour de France and Giro Rosa

Stevens, Abbott finish inside the top 10 on tough climbing stage

Italian former world champion gets her first Giro stage win since 2008

Evelyn Stevens and Mara Abbott will start the Giro on Sunday as pre-race favorites, topping a long list of Americans in the top women's stage race in the world

Women's Giro organizer steps down, leaving the world's top female stage race in doubt

On National Day of Listening, the 2010 Giro champ talks about her struggles with self confidence and health, and plots her 2013 comeback

Dutch rider wins five of nine stages en route to defending Giro Donne title

1. Emma JOHANSSON, Hitec Products - Mistral Home Cycling Team, in 2:44:38 2. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, at 0 3. Emma POOLEY, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at :2 4. Alena AMIALIUSIK, Be Pink, at 3:37 5. Rossella RATTO, Verinlegno - Fabiani, at 3:37

1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 2:45:43 2. Judith ARNDT, Greenedge - Ais, at 0 3. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at 0 4. Shelley OLDS, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at :40 5. Chloe HOSKING, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at :40

Race leader Marianna Vos has won five of eight Giro Donne stages so far, the same number she won in last year’s edition.

1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 3:17:44 2. Emma JOHANSSON, Hitec Products - Mistral Home Cycling Team, at 0 3. Fabiana LUPERINI, Faren Honda Team, at 0 4. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at 0 5. Judith ARNDT, Greenedge - Ais, at 0

U.S. Olympic hopeful Shelley Olds shows the flag on the Fourth of July

1. Shelley OLDS, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, in 2:29:54 2. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, at 0 3. Giorgia BRONZINI, Diadora - Pasta Zara, at 0 4. Valentina SCANDOLARA, S.c. Michela Fanini Rox, at 0 5. Monia BACCAILLE, Mcipollini Giambenini, at 0

Australian Tiffany Cromwell went on a solo ride for over 100km during stage 5 of the 2012 Giro Donne

Vos uses wild downhill attack to ride back into pink in the women's Tour of Italy

1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 2:44:59 2. Emma JOHANSSON, Hitec Products - Mistral Home Cycling Team, at 1:26 3. Tatiana GUDERZO, Mcipollini Giambenini, at 1:33 4. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at 1:33 5. Claudia HÄUSLER, Greenedge - Ais, at 1:38

1. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, in 3:34:25 2. Fabiana LUPERINI, Faren Honda Team, at :20 3. Emma POOLEY, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at :20 4. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, at :31 5. Claudia HÄUSLER, Greenedge - Ais, at 2:02

Double-stage winner and defending champ Marianne Vos slips to second overall

1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 8:50 2. Clara HUGHES, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at :5 3. Judith ARNDT, Greenedge - Ais, at :12 4. Shelley OLDS, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at :15 5. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at :17

The defending champion takes her second consecutive stage win, an individual time trial

1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 3:48:31 2. Shelley OLDS, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at 0 3. Giorgia BRONZINI, Diadora - Pasta Zara, at 0 4. Ina TEUTENBERG, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at 0 5. Judith ARNDT, Greenedge - Ais, at 0

The defending champ gets off to the best possible start, taking the opener ahead of American Shelly Olds

Reigning U.S. national champion and 2010 Giro Donne winner Mara Abbott has signed a deal to ride for Italy's Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan team.

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Mara Abbott (U.S. National Team) became the first American woman to win the Giro Donne today, while Shelley Evans took home the final stage win.

Mara Abbott wins the queen stage of the Giro Donne

Mara Abbott (U.S. National Team) wins stage 8 in a solo breakaway

The HTC-Columbia rider wins stage 7, now fourth on the GC

Marianne Vos took her second win in the Giro Donne in Wednesday’s stage 6

Marianne Vos (Netherlands) broke the iron grip of Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) on the Giro Donne today, winning the fifth stage out of a small but elite group.

HTC-Columbia's speedster wins a lot, but says she's never won four stages in a row. American Shelley Evans is third.

HTC-Columbia sprinter Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes her third straight stage at the Giro Donne. This time, in a time trial.

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg won her second consecutive stage at the Giro Donne on Saturday, taking a bunch sprint ahead of Giorgia Bronzini and Marianne Vos.

Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) won the first stage of the Giro Donne ahead of Giorgia Bronzini (Gause RDZ Ormu) and Kirsten Wild (Cérvelo), taking the race’s first leader’s jersey.

2010 Giro Donne stage 10 results

2010 Giro Donne stage 3 results

2010 Giro Donne stage 1 results

2010 Giro Donne stage 2 results