Women Riders World Relay Relaunches for 2026, Aiming for a Million Participants via App

A goal of a million people as an international show of solidarity — if they pull it off, that'll genuinely be a historic number.

Sounds like it's moved from a physical relay format to a digital platform — curious how the mechanics of that actually work.

Overlapping in timing with IFRD and BTR, it feels like support initiatives for women riders are all ramping up at once.

Going from 3,500 people last time to aiming for a million via an app — that's a bold jump of nearly three orders of magnitude.

Going digital lowers the barrier to join, but I wonder if it dilutes the sense of unity you get from the actual real-world ride.

2019-2020 was 3,500 people across 78 countries — jumping to a million-person goal this time is a massive leap in scale.