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(Photo: Unbound 2025)
Unbound: the biggest gravel race of the year
In 2006, just 34 cyclists raced around the gravel roads outside Emporia, Kansas. Last year, there were over 5,000 riders across five distances.
While distances now range from the 25-mile to the 350-mile XL, the elite 200-mile race is the premier event and the second stop of the Life Time Grand Prix. It also has its own $60,000 prize purse. Karolina Migoล set a course record last year, but Sofรญa Gรณmez Villafaรฑe has already won the first stop on the Grand Prix (in Sea Otter) and the Traka 200 (in Europe).
Plus, the whole thing is basically a giant festival of cycling and gravel.
๐บ WATCH: Our Unbound preview show with Sarah Sturm & Lauren Hall
๐บ TUNE IN: To the live coverage on YouTube starting Saturday @ 5:30 a.m. CT
Where to come find us
Our Feisty Cycling team will be on the ground in Emporia all week:
๐ฒ Tuesday @ 4:00 p.m. - LIVE podcast with Traka 560 winner Maddy Nutt at Merchant Cycles
๐ฒ Thursday @ 11:30 a.m. - Join us for a shakeout ride; RSVP here
๐ฒ Friday @ noon - Race Day Braids at Merchants Cycles
We'll also have Unbound edition 'Here For The Women's Race' t-shirts at our pop-up at Merchant Cycles on Thursday & Friday afternoons. Come on by! ๐
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Wait, what do I need to know about The Enhanced Games? ๐
Oof, if you don't want to know about the drug-fueled spectacle in Las Vegas this past weekend, you don't need to.
But if you just want a quick primer:
๐ The Enhanced Games were supposedly created as an Olympics but *with* banned performance-enhancing drugs
๐ต Athletes โ mostly men, but including 11 women โ were signed to big paydays ($250K for a win & $1 million for a world record) in swimming, track, and weightlifting
๐ค Originally, organizers touted their stunt as an effort to bring doping into the light and make sports "safer" โ BUT the parent company (The Enhanced Group) later came out with a line of supplements and drugs to sell to the public
๐ It became evident that the spectacle was both a very expensive clinical trial using athletes as the test subjects *and* a massive marketing play to sell peptides
Did it work?
Not really? While it's hard to know if the marketing scheme was a success, the event itself was considered a bit of a flop โ with false starts, re-do attempts for athletes, and just one "world record" at the very end of the night in the 50m freestyle. The women's winning 100m track time of 11.25 seconds would have been distantly behind everyone in the final of the Paris Olympics...
LEARN: Learn more about regulated and unregulated peptides in our Feisty 40+ newsletter.
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The highlight reel
- โฝ Barcelona beat Lyon 4-0 for the UEFA Women's Champion League final. While the game was a sellout with 24,258 fans, some players pointed out they should have been playing in a bigger stadium.
- โฝ Club Amรฉrica of Liga MX Femenil beat the Washington Spirit to the the Concacaf Champions Cup. It's the first time a Mexican club has won the title.
- The Women's Giro d'Italia also starts this Saturday. ๐ดโโ๏ธ
- Anna Moesch set an American record in the 100m free (51.94 seconds) ๐โโ๏ธ and swam the 2nd fastest all-time.
- ๐โโ๏ธ Masai Russell broke her own American record in the 100m hurdles (12.14 seconds).
- ๐โโ๏ธ Olympic triathlon champion Cassandre Beaugrand set a French national record not in triathlon, but on the track โ running 14:40 for 5,000m.
- Iris Schmidbauer won her first high dive World Cup after giving birth 18 months ago.
- ๐ดโโ๏ธ Becca Book became the first woman to break four days in the 735-mile Cross-Washington Mountain Bike race.
- ๐๏ธ 18-year-old Bianca Adler became the youngest Australian to climb Mt. Everest.
- Last year UNC beat Northwestern for the lacrosse national NCAA title. ๐ฅ This year, Northwestern beat UNC. It's Northwestern's 9th national title and they're the first team to win the title on the home field since 1986.
- Ronda Rousey was paid $2.2 million for her Netflix match with Gina Carano.
- Caitlin Clark served as the Grand Marshall for the Indy 500.
- The all-women's track meet, Athlos, will expand to London this year and have a $2.1 million prize purse.
- ๐ League One Volleyball (LOVB) is expanding to Miami for the 2026-27 season.
- ๐ The new Upshot League is hoping to serve as a development league for the WNBA.
- The Professional Tennis Players Association ๐พ filed a lawsuit against the Grand Slam tournaments last year, pushing for a greater share of revenue. In response, the French Open (which started this week) denied the organization's credentials.
- The ground-breaking women's sports bar, The Sports Bra in Portland, has opened a crowdfunding campaign to expand.
Your Feisty recommendations
๐ง What to listen to: Since we're on a cycling theme, "How to race 100 miles with Alison Tetrick"
๐ What to read: "Linemates to Lifemates: A Hockey Love Story"
๐ What made us laugh: The U.S. ice skating team, on their Stars on Ice tour, got stuck in the elevator!
๐ What we love: Applications for T9 Pitchfest are open until July 1 for women-led outdoors businesses.
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