2024 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes, approx. 4 hour sort of monument, April 21st

[Samu Cuenca]

Amazing, Grace!

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Brown! Hahaha ELB will be fuming.

 

[Red Rick]

I got about 13 aneurysms watching tactics that last kilometer

 

[KOM]

What in the world is Vollering doing?!

 

[Izzyeviel]

In the entire history of Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femme Avec zwift, only one rider not from the Netherlands has won. Amazing when you think about it.

My work here is done.

Grace <3

 

[awavey]

See it was reverse psychology Brown totally out of it

 

[QueenStagiaire]

How did you find it?

Dunno, switched off the men‘s race and then the women‘s race just kinda showed up🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Fantastic finishing sprint from Brown, Kasia exxpended on the risk, but after all that no podium for Canyon is an absolute disaster. Vollering left herself too far back and ran out of road.

Kasia should NOT have gone to Domenico Pozzovivo's advanced clause in finishing 7th in a two-up sprint.

 

[KZD]

What a sprint from Grace Brown.

Women's cycling is the polar opposite of men's cycling right now at least in these big races, we need to wait until the last meters to figure out who wins.

 

[jaylew]

Whew, looked like they were all working for Vollering for a minute. Nice win for Brown. ELB definitely seemed the strongest overall.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I got about 13 aneurysms watching tactics that last kilometer

If Kasia and ELB are ahead together with a gap in a final kilometre, nothing that makes any sense whatsoever will happen.

They have previous for this.

 

[Red Rick]

I think Cadsow using her only bullet to half bring back an attack with everyone on her wheel takes the absolute cake here.

 

[Didinho]

Vollering came fast. Why not following Elisa’s wheel.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

SD Worx be like

 

[jaylew]

What in the world is Vollering doing?!

She looked like she was on her knees, just hoping she had one sprint effort left.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Fantastic finishing sprint from Brown, Kasia exxpended on the risk, but after all that no podium for Canyon is an absolute disaster. Vollering left herself too far back and ran out of road.

Kasia should NOT have gone to Domenico Pozzovivo's advanced clause in finishing 7th in a two-up sprint.

I thought Kasia was doing the right thing. You have to gamble and the rest got kind of bailed out by Cadzow of all people to claw her back. Then it's fair to keep the pace high after ELB wasted that energy in order to deliver Chabbey in a prime position for the sprint. Problem was Chabbey had nothing left and Brown was just better.

 

[JR1012]

SD Worx be like

Same like Trek.

 

[Volderke]

ELB too much work. Kasia / Kadsow: what were you doing in the end…?

Kadsow bringing everything back with a suicide pull while kasia thought it was a good idea to lead out ELB only.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Brown already showed two years ago how strong she can be in a group sprint, but I still thought Vollering would have more left, although she didn't position herself very well and got bailed out by a too eager Cadzow a couple of times. A big win for FDJ.

 

[awavey]

She looked like she was on her knees, just hoping she had one sprint effort left.

She had the speed at the end,and she looked annoyed at the line, she was just too far back when it kicked off and got gapped

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I thought Kasia was doing the right thing. You have to gamble and the rest got kind of bailed out by Cadzow of all people to claw her back. Then it's fair to keep the pace high after ELB wasted that energy in order to deliver Chabbey in a prime position for the sprint. Problem was Chabbey had nothing left and Brown was just better.

I had no problem with her gambling at all. She obviously wouldn't have expected Cadzow to do something as blatantly doomed to fail as that.

But from having had Chabbey up front, Kasia sitting on most of the way in the elite chasers, and two riders in the Vos group, to not get a podium is a bit of a mess.

They'd done almost everything perfectly up to the final kilometre but they just didn't have it to bring it home. And somehow Trek and SD Worx who completely made a mess of the race and made it much, much harder than it needed to be to control for themselves did get on the podium.

 

[yaco]

Brown is an interesting rider. She always copes well with the climbing in LBL but yet in other races which have less climbing she can struggle. She does a brilliant job in the World's ITT but has failed miserably in the RR when team leader. Finally, after coming 2nd in the 2020 edition of LBL, Jayco refused to enter her in the 2021 edition of LBL and it is no surprise she left the team. And then of course she joins FDJ and runs second in the 2022 edition of LBL.

 

[awavey]

I thought Kasia was doing the right thing. You have to gamble and the rest got kind of bailed out by Cadzow of all people to claw her back. Then it's fair to keep the pace high after ELB wasted that energy in order to deliver Chabbey in a prime position for the sprint. Problem was Chabbey had nothing left and Brown was just better.

I think the others would still have caught up without Cadzows help, because Kasia just went way too early to last the distance to the line, and fair enough it's the only card she can play in a sprint contest with those riders.

But Brown timed it perfectly.

 

[jmdirt]

Congrats Grace!

 

[jaylew]

She had the speed at the end,and she looked annoyed at the line, she was just too far back when it kicked off and got gapped

If she had felt better I think she would have been further up in the group. There was certainly opportunity. She really looked to be suffering to me and just had one sprint effort left in her