Matilda Price

Matilda Price covers professional road cycling for Cyclingnews with a sustained focus on women’s racing and the people who shape it. Her work combines on-the-ground reporting from major events with features that track how the sport is changing, from peloton dynamics to the pressures riders face off the bike. She joined the masthead in 2025 and now works across news, features and longer projects, bringing experience from years spent following both men’s and women’s calendars at close quarters.

Women's road races and championship contenders

Much of Price’s day-to-day reporting centres on elite women’s road racing and the international championship calendar. She regularly produces contenders pieces for events such as the European Championships women’s road race and the World Championships women’s under-23 road race, breaking down who is in form, which nations bring depth, and how tactical scenarios might unfold.

Her preview work is grounded in specific riders and squads rather than generic form guides, highlighting home favourites, stacked national teams and the previous year’s results.

She also handles fast-turnaround news around those same events. Recent headlines include coverage of Kim Le Court-Pienaar ending her season after a crash at the World Championships, and Great Britain choosing not to field road race squads at the European Championships while focusing only on the time trials.

Across these pieces she links selection decisions, injuries and schedule choices back to the shape of the women’s peloton and the opportunities available to younger riders.

Tour de France Femmes, Grand Tours and race narratives

Price’s features often grow out of long stints on the road at marquee stage races. She has written extensively about the Tour de France Femmes, including a piece arguing that the fifth edition could be the strongest yet, with a packed general classification battle and a course designed to push the race to a new level. Another article from that race builds a collective portrait of Mont Ventoux, gathering stories from riders and staff about proposals, early encounters with the climb and formative experiences, using those anecdotes to show how the event is building its own mythology.

Her grand tour work extends across both men’s and women’s calendars. A feature reflecting on two weeks at the Giro d’Italia uses daily observations to explore why men’s racing is regaining her excitement, balancing stage outcomes with the atmosphere around the event. She has written reflections from a Tour de France finish on Mont Ventoux, focusing on the contrast between chaos and calm as the race and its fans converge on the mountain. Pieces on retiring riders such as Geraint Thomas and Lizzie Deignan look at how individual careers intersect with the growth of the sport, and how their exits change the lens through which she covers racing.

List-led features sit alongside these narrative articles.

An example is her contribution to a team piece on underrated riders, where she helps spotlight athletes who deliver results or shape races without receiving commensurate attention. Together, these stories show a consistent interest in how history, expectation and visibility interact at the biggest races.

Team moves, performance staff and pressure around the sport

Price does not limit herself to race reports; she also tracks the people and decisions behind team performance. She covers transfer news such as Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney leaving a long-time team for Lidl-Trek, treating the move as a major shift in the women’s peloton and unpacking what it means for both rider and squad.

The article you anchored on looks at a former performance director moving into a role alongside Grischa Niermann at Lidl-Trek and the departure of long-serving general manager Luca Guercilena after sixteen years, situating staff changes within wider questions about high-performance structures and team culture.

Her features broaden that lens to the sport as a whole. In a piece outlining eight ways cycling is going to be different in 2026, she considers new peloton dynamics and changes in how audiences watch races, linking organisational decisions, broadcast formats and rider workloads. Another article on the Belgian Spring Classics examines how intense media scrutiny and social media abuse amplify the pressure of expectation on home favourites, using interviews and examples to show how external noise affects performance and wellbeing.

Across these stories, she treats management, media and fan behaviour as integral parts of the competitive environment.

Women's health, wellbeing and representation

A distinctive strand of Price’s portfolio is her work on women’s health and welfare within professional cycling. She has introduced a dedicated women’s health series for Cyclingnews subscribers, explaining why topics such as menstrual disorders are central to performance and yet often under-discussed. Her own contribution to that project focuses on conditions like PCOS and endometriosis, examining how they affect riders and whether teams have sufficient knowledge and structures to support athletes living and racing with them.

This attention to wellbeing carries through her other coverage. Articles about pressure in the Classics, the demands of grand tours and the stories behind iconic climbs all incorporate how riders experience strain, support and joy, not just results.

By pairing detailed race and team reporting with repeated engagement with health, mental load and representation, Price’s work stands out as coverage of cycling that treats women’s sport as central and looks closely at the human costs and rewards of competing at the highest level.