POWYS is getting ready to welcome some of the world's top female bike racers as Welshpool hosts the start of the 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Women on Thursday. World champion Lotte Kopecky is expected to be among them with her SD-Worx – Protime team one of four UCI Women’s World Tour teams competing. Five UCI Women’s Continental teams and six British Continental teams will also be in the lineup, along with an all-star Great Britain team featuring Lizzie Deignan (former world champion and two times winner of the Women’s Tour), Elinor Barker (Olympic gold medallist), Elynor Bäckstedt, Anna Henderson, Millie Couzens and Flora Perkins.
Stage one will start from Broad Street at 11.15am and . Before leaving Powys, it will pass through Berriew, Castle Caereinion, Llanfair Caereinion, Dolanog, Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Pen-y-bont-fawr and Llangynog.
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