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Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2024, one day monument, April 6 (women's)

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Fourth edition of this women's Parix-Roubaix. SD Worx don't have it all their way this year, will we have an actual race on out hands?
Last year it was an unexpected win by the Canadian Alison Jackson, who was part of a winning breakaway.

Notable riders: Vos, Kopecky, Wiebes, Consonni, Balsamo, Kool, Georgi, Chabbey, Brown, Jackson

Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2024

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Official website of the Paris–Roubaix Femmes

Official website of the Paris–Roubaix Women cycling race.
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Full startlist (not yet final):

Startlist for Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2024

Competing teams and riders for Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2024. Top competitors are Marianne Vos, Ellen van Dijk and Lorena Wiebes.
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I hope for a sprint between Wiebes/Balsamo and Vos. Haven't seen Vos yet to compete againts the best sprinters in the field. But at the same time will probably not happening.
 
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JR1012 said:
I hope for a sprint between Wiebes/Balsamo and Vos. Haven't seen Vos yet to compete againts the best sprinters in the field. But at the same time will probably not happening.
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Vos has a better chance of being in contention for the win than the other two. Wiebes especially hasn't done much else than crashing in the first three editions, and Balsamo's biggest contribution has been getting disqualified for a sticky bottle.
 
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Maybe the women will also get to ride Arenberg next year if the chicane proves successful?
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if the "chicane" is whats being shown on peoples social as its final form, it looks more likely to cause crashes than the cobbles would have.

theyve always suggested the women couldnt ride Arenberg because theyd turn up in too big a group of riders, because there isnt enough selection on the run in or stringing out of the peloton before hand.

so how on earth does adding such an acute angle turn, which basically brings you to a complete stop on a bike, followed by another 90 degree turn, where the width of the road is so narrow for even a small group, and use metal barriers, add anything to safety ?

theyre all going to turn up get caught in a melee at the turn, and hit Arenberg in exactly the kind of mass group of riders they say is too dangerous for the women !?!?

it will be like one of those cyclocross mass starts where one rider unclips and half the race crashes, except it will be into tarmac and a metal barrier.
 
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awavey said:
so how on earth does adding such an acute angle turn, which basically brings you to a complete stop on a bike, followed by another 90 degree turn, where the width of the road is so narrow for even a small group, and use metal barriers, add anything to safety ?
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Once they're out of the chicane they're not going to be hitting Arenberg in a big group, it's basically going to be single file starting from a relatively very. slow speed.
 
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Once they're out of the chicane they're not going to be hitting Arenberg in a big group, it's basically going to be single file starting from a relatively very. slow speed.
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theyll be in a huge massed group of riders as theyll all have come to a complete stop to negotiate the new turn, wiping out any advantage anyone had gained and will then try to sprint as fast as they can away to be first onto the cobbles, because then you get to pick your line and arent worrying about the line of the rider whose tyre tracks you are left following or if the guy next to you is going to go down.

have you not seen how a cyclocross mass start works when they hit the first acute turn corner ? all the ones at the front make it out without crashing all the ones stuck in the middle hit the deck as one rider makes a mistake falls, or unclips the bike flips sideways and becomes a barrier and everyone piles into them.

you know a bit like the Koppenberg last week.

if you want to make Arenberg safer, and we can debate till the goats come home about whether thats actually something we want, but its not about speed, its about the mass of riders on sections at a time all fighting for space, the crashes happen among groups or clusters of riders.

so stretch the groups out, by making the race harder before Arenberg, limit the start numbers, over 200 riders across 25 teams is a stupid number to contest a race like this

I actually think the simplest way to do it is to funnel the riders on to Arenberg, using a bottleneck and narrowing the width of the road to force them into riding a narrower line , just like on the cobbled climbs, and borrow some airfences from MotoGp not stupid metal fences with legs that stick out and lots of things handlebars and pedals can get stuck in to do it.
 
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From last year's winning breakaway, Marion Borras (illness) and Eugénie Duval (artery issues) won't be at the start, but Jackson, Ragusa, Truyen, Lach and the unfortunate crashee Femke Markus will all race tomorrow, as well as Hengeveld, Susanne Andersen, Towers, Pate, Le Deunff, Van Helvoirt and Talbot, who were all part of the initial group.
 
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Didinho said:
Yeah she’s not as good as last year at this point, where she was 2nd of the peloton after Kopecky. But I hope she can get a top result tomorrow.
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I doubt she would have finished 3rd if the peloton had caught the breakaway before the last 30 kn. She was lucky with the how race developed, but at the same time unlucky that they didn't catch the breakaway in the last few km.
 
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