Marianne Vos

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Marianne Vos is finally finding herself winning races again after a frustrating 2015

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Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne ends on the famed Mur de Huy, and the puncheurs of the peloton will be there fighting for a win.

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Marianne Vos, once the invincible champion, admits that taking time off the bike in 2015 was one of her hardest challenges, but now she's back racing.

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After a long injury layoff, Marianne Vos returns to face a deeper women's peloton and more confident rivals. Oh, it's on.

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The 28-year-old Dutchwoman has been sidelined for four months with hamstring and back injuries.

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A group of four pro women, including Marianne Vos, introduce a new organization, Strongher, to encourage women's participation in cycling.

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Pauline Ferrand-Prevot said it felt strange to defeat friend and mentor Marianne Vos. But she told herself: “I’m not here to be second"

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The 2015 cyclocross world championships in Tabor may offer a rare opportunity to dethrone reigning women's champ Marianne Vos

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A late-race error by Mathieu van der Poel on a heavy mud course opens the door for van Aert to ride alone to win

The world champ continued her winning ways in Diegem, taking the sixth round of the Superprestige series, four seconds ahead of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

Marianne Vos wins the fifth round of the World Cup series, getting the better of Katerina Nash and teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

Perhaps Marianne Vos wasn't as dominant as usual in 2014, but she certainly was more dominant than any other rider in the women's peloton

Marianne Vos claims second, and Katie Compton is third in Namur at the fourth round of the cyclocross World Cup

Marianne Vos will not wear the rainbow jersey on the road in 2015, but her rivals say one loss does not mean the Dutchwoman is slowing down

As a lead group hesitates en route to the line, the race is lost, and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot surges in the final meters to take the victory

Marianne Vos' form is in question after a disappointing worlds team time trial. Saturday's elite women's road race may be wide open

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World road champion Marianne Vos, who concedes she's not a specialist in the race against the clock, struggles in the team time trial

Alejandro Valverde has a tough row to hoe if he is to win the rainbow jersey on his home turf, with the Aussies and Belgians gunning for him

The Rabo-Liv squad sweeps the podium in the final race, but Lizzie Armitstead collects the overall World Cup title

Italian sprinter Giorgia Bronzini (Wiggle Honda) timed her sprint to perfection, coming around Vos with 100 meters to go to take the victory

The reigning world champion will be the odds-on favorite to win the women's criterium in London

Wiggins will return to the roads used for the time trial and road race events at the London Olympics, where he won TT gold

The world champ takes a sprint victory in Germany ahead of Giorgia Bronzini and Lotta Lepisto

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Marianne Vos won the inaugural edition of La Course by the Tour de France on Sunday. Ride along as she sprints to win in the final kilometer

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The world champion sprints to the victory in the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France, a women's circuit race on the Champs-Élysées

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Marianne Vos wins her third GC title at the Giro Rosa, and Emma Pooley takes her third stage win atop the Ghisallo

Race leader Marianne Vos continued her winning streak on stage 7 at the Giro Rosa, ahead of Giorgia Bronzini and Emma Johansson

On a flat stage to Cesenatico, Vos takes her third stage win in this year's Giro Rosa

Marianne Vos out-sprinted a small group in stage 4, earning her a second stage win; she holds onto the GC lead

Marianne Vos is back in the magia rosa, but competition is fierce at the 25th Giro Rosa

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World, Olympic champion will be among the starters at the Tour de France's new women's event in July

Frenchwoman rides to victory at Flèche Wallonne with the support of the world champion

Multiple-discipline world champion will narrow her focus in the lead-in to the 2016 Olympics

A bad start, a crash, an asthma attack — Compton piles a season's worth of misfortune into a single race as Vos rides a flawless defense

Tour de France owners ASO announce a women’s race at the 2014 Tour, held July 27 on the Champs-Elysées in Paris

Vos rode a flawless race, taking the lead early and never relinquishing it, as Compton struggled from the gun and finished off the podium

Reigning champions Sven Nys and Marianne Vos — and American Katie Compton — are at the head of the favorites for the cyclocross world championships in The Netherlands

Compton and van der Haar take the overall titles as Vos and Meeusen win a tough finale on a heavy French course

The American defends her World Cup title with a victory in a muddy Rome World Cup

World champions shine in the heavy mud at Azencross