Maple Ridge pro cyclist takes second at race in Belgium<\/p>\n
Published 8:00 pm Friday, May 29, 2026<\/p>\n
Maple Ridge pro cyclist Maggie Coles-Lyster is coming off a second-place finish at a race in Belgium, and is competing over the coming week in Italy.<\/p>\n
Coles-Lyster sprinted to second place at GP Mazda Schelkens, a 134 km race in Borsbeek, Belgium. It was her second podium finish of 2026. She races for the Human Powered Health cycling team.<\/p>\n
Coles-Lyster said criterium racing in North America \u2013 which is multiple laps around a closed road circuit, helped her to the silver finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s basically a race like a crit, like a super fast circuit race, lots of corners. The finish is always kind of interesting, the way it curves around to the right,\u201d she explained. \u201cMy background is in crits, so this fast, punchy style of racing is basically in my DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now she is competing in the Giro d\u2019Italia Women from May 30 to June 7. La Corsa Rosa is one of the longest-running stage races in women\u2019s cycling, with one of the richest histories. There are nine stages over 1,177 km from Cesenatico in the east to Saluzzo in the northwest. There are flat stages, hilly tests, an uphill time trial and mountain days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super excited for this Giro. There\u2019s usually only one day at a big stage-race earmarked for sprinters, but to come and have four opportunities is super sick, because you don\u2019t get that a lot,\u201d said Coles-Lyster.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big fight each of those days, and that\u2019s really cool when you have a bunch of teams there ready to do the lead-outs and make it a good sprint battle.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has been training in a bodysuit for heat training.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat has really helped with the hot racing days in Belgium, and I felt that benefit already,\u201d she said. \u201cI expect we will have some super-hot days in Italy as well, so that preparation for it has topped up my readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maple Ridge pro cyclist takes second at race in Belgium Published 8:00 pm Friday, May 29, 2026 Maple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-703128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}