American Shelley Olds and one-time Squamish resident Leah Kirchmann were making podiums and filling up their pockets in Delta on the weekend.

But the accomplished road cyclists, who went 1-2 in Sunday’s White Spot UCI 1.2 road race in Tsawwassen, would probably trade it all for glory on the Champs-Elysees in Paris in a couple of weeks.

“That’s the goal, I’m aiming for the top step,” said the beaming, 25-year-old Kirchmann after Sunday morning’s race on rain-slickened streets.

She was third in Paris last year, and Olds fifth, in the inaugural La Course, the one-day, 88-kilometre race on the same famed circuit the men ride on the final day of the Tour de France.

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“I’m feeling ready after these three days of racing in Delta,” added Kirchmann, who swept the road race, criterium and time trial at the 2014 Canadian championships. “I seem to be sprinting well this week. I can’t even put it into words what it would mean to win that race.”

And both Kirchmann and Olds would love to be back in Metro Vancouver next May if ambitious plans for a UCI-sanctioned women’s stage race come together.

The diminutive Olds, a 34-year-old Olympian from Gilroy, Calif., capped a terrific first weekend of BC Superweek by capturing the 105-kilometre road race on Sunday in a bunched sprint finish. It followed a second-place finish in Saturday’s Ladner criterium and a third-place in Friday night’s North Delta criterium.

“I’m very happy with the weekend,” said Olds, who collected $3,400 for the win, $525 for the Friday-Saturday finishes and another $951 in primes, money dolled out for winning certain laps in the criteriums.

“I was here six years ago and I remember it was incredible. The atmosphere is so good.”

Kirchmann, a Winnipeg native and the winner of Saturday’s race, was a bike length back in second in the road race, finishing just ahead of Joanne Kiesanowski of New Zealand. A mid-race crashed claimed a half-dozen riders with one being taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries and a trio of others unable to continue because of severe road rash scrapes to faces, arms and legs.

Kirchmann is off to Europe Monday with her U.S.-based Optum/Kelly Benefits Strategies team for a month of racing, including the big event on the Champ-Elysees where 120 of the top female cyclists in the world start the race.

The bubbly Olds will finish out the final five races of Superweek before heading to Europe to rejoin her Italian-based Ale Cipollini squad.

Women haven’t been a part of the Tour de France since 2009 and the hope is that La Course leads to a major women’s stage rage like the Tour of Britain, which began in 2014.

“It was huge last year ... just to have such a high-profile name (like Tour de France) associated with women’s cycling was great for the sport,” said Kirchmann. “It was broadcast around the world and it was a really exciting race — fast from the gun, with tons of attacks. We really showed how exciting our racing can be.”