Chloe Hosking said she performs better when there is no pressure on her shoulders. Hosking, who is with her new team, Rally Cycling, thanked her teammates for helping her succeed in her home country.

"When I signed with Rally Cycling, I told them in the off-season that I felt like the pressure was taken off.

Hosking recently won the national criterium title and entered the Women's Tour Down Under in great form. She has four stage wins in the Women's Tour Down Under, including her first stage win in Macclesfield.

"I feel great," Hosking said. 'From one orange jersey to another. It's my first race with the team and the girls were amazing. I'm really happy to give them a UCI win."

Marieke van Witzenburg (Dolcini Van Eyck Sport) escaped from a three-man breakaway in the opening stage of the Women's Tour Down Under. She earned full points in the Queen of the Mountains at Notts Hill, 48km into the race.

Although he was eventually caught, he took the first mountains jersey of the four-day race.

"I didn't plan to go it alone, but I did plan to attack after the first sprint. I doubted myself a little bit, but my teammates said I could go at that point, so I did," Van Witzenburg said.

"I didn't know how far away I would be, but I really wanted to stay away until QOM. But we wanted to stay away until QOM. Getting the jersey once was a big goal of mine and I'm going to try to keep it that way."

Brody Chapman (FDJ Aquitaine Nouvelle Futuroscope) came close to winning the women's Tours Down Under stage 1 with a solo attack that left the leaders in the closing kilometers.

But a hungry group sprint caught her with 3km to go and Chloe Hosking (Rally) took the stage win.

"It was an exciting race," Hosking said. It was fun to watch. That's all that matters. I escaped just by feeling. I knew Dolcini Van Eyck Sport was going to run an aggressive race style. Everyone thought it was going to be a group sprint, but that didn't mean we had to sit still for 100 kilometers. We rode together for a while and it was fun.

"Alone, I gave it my all. I couldn't control the peloton with just my legs, so I just tried to have a good time and bring it to the line, but the peloton really wanted a group sprint."

The Women's Tour of Britain announced Thursday that the final stage of the six-day race, which will be held June 8-13, will be held in Suffolk. This will be the first time since 2014 that Suffolk will host the final stage of the Women's Tour.

Stage details have not been announced, but stage 6 will start in Haverhill on June 13 and end in Felixstowe.

Suffolk is a regular host of the Women's Tour, having hosted the opening stages of the 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019 races and the final stage of the inaugural 2014 race.

Organizers of the Tour of Britain (2.HC) and the Women's Tour (Women's World Tour) announced that OVO Energy has ended its title sponsorship of the event and is looking for a new major funder.

Sweet Spot and British Cycling have committed to run the event for another 10 years and are looking for a title brand that aligns with these long-term plans.