Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro Rosa - 2nd to 11th July

[Samu Cuenca]

Vos has now won stages in 10 different editions of the Giro Rosa.
First and last (for now) wins are 14 years apart (2007 - 2021).

And those are the only Giri she's ridden. She might get her 30th stage win in the coming days.


Grace Brown has put in what seems to be a good performance, but the top 46 have not even started yet.

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[Samu Cuenca]

So far no one's been able to beat Brown's time. Longo Borghini was 1:21 behind, Leah Thomas 1:30 and Ruth Winder 1:34.

Aalerud overtook Cille and nearly catched Koppenburg and is now in second place at 57 seconds behind Brown.
But Cavalli was 20 seconds faster than the Norwegian.

 

[yaco]

I suspect Brown's time will end up being top 3 or 4 - AVB is the hot favourite.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I suspect Brown's time will end up being top 3 or 4 - AVV is the hot favourite.

AVB, you mean (I'm sure it was an honest mistake due to the V and the B being right next to each other on the keyboard)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van der Breggen is now fastest at the first intermediate 13 seconds faster than Moolman-Pasio and 18 in front of Brown.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Vollering was 10.8 seconds faster than Brown, so it looks like another podium sweep for SD Worx.
Moolman-Pasio was slower than Brown, but Van der Breggen takes the crown by over a minute!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

 

[SafeBet]

Realini beating ELB in a time trial, that's something I did not anticipate a few days ago.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Realini beating ELB in a time trial, that's something I did not anticipate a few days ago.

Yeah, she's been riding great. I wonder how far she is behind Fisher-Black in the youth classification now. They cut the broadcast before they got to it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah, she's been riding great. I wonder how far she is behind Fisher-Black in the youth classification now. They cut the broadcast before they got to it.

Could you say she's a Real rider for the future?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Hmmm, interesting sestricidal battle incoming at Monte Matajûr it seems. Don't know which way I want it to go. I'm a big Vollering fan and she will gain me beaucoup points in the prediction game, but Ash is a long-time favourite who's had a bad couple of years and is getting up there in age whereas Demi will have many more chances to top the ladder, and it's great to see the South African at her best again.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Four out of the six Bizkaia-Durango riders missed the time cut. Chiara Consonni, Sheyla Gutierrez and Maëlle Grossetete are also out as well as the two Balducci sisters, Francesca and Michela, Elise Vander Sande, who isn't related to Tosh Van der Sande, though his wife is actually also named Elise, and two other riders.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So is Elise Vander Sande the new Kristin Armstrong, then? Genuinely surprised at Sheyla missing the timecut unless she had a crash the last couple of days, even on struggling form she's a strong enough rider I would have expected her to make it.

 

[yaco]

AVV is in superb form - The bigger picture is whether she can offer a genuine to Dygert in the Olympic's ITT.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I think she missed it by 23 seconds, and that Danique Braam from Lotto-Soudal would have been out if she had lost another second or maybe just fractions.

 

[Dk one]

So is Elise Vander Sande the new Kristin Armstrong, then? Genuinely surprised at Sheyla missing the timecut unless she had a crash the last couple of days, even on struggling form she's a strong enough rider I would have expected her to make it.

Think movistar wanted to save their legs for tomorrow, see also Norsgaards time. What a miscalculation if so.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Some riders might have made a mistake by not using TT bikes, but it seems that Norsgaard actually did unlike Aalerud.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Gaia Realini makes Eider Merino look like Kirsten Wild. Fingers crossed she isn't a Francesca Cauz false dawn or a Kseniya Tuhai Chekhov play, because the bunch needs more pocket rocket escaladoras!

 

[Northerner]

Yeah, she's been riding great. I wonder how far she is behind Fisher-Black in the youth classification now. They cut the broadcast before they got to it.

Young rider classification:

Fisher-Black
Realini +42s
Muzic +1:31

Realini was 2:41 behind after the TTT so she's catching fast, if she can avoid losing more time on the flatter stages like on stage 3. The gap between Fisher-Black and Muzic is entirely from the TTT, they've finished the other stages 1,3 and 5 seconds apart.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Gaia Realini makes Eider Merino look like Kirsten Wild. Fingers crossed she isn't a Francesca Cauz false dawn or a Kseniya Tuhai Chekhov play, because the bunch needs more pocket rocket escaladoras!

Interesting that she can TT then.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Interesting that she can TT then.

She's a cyclocrosser and this ITT was not the most immediate in terms of telling TT ability being more or less an MTT, but I guess perhaps the best point of comparison would be Emma Pooley, who was strong in the ITT despite being about 1m 50 and weighing less than José Rujano's left buttock. And if Gaia can achieve half of what Emma did I'm sure she'd retire happy.

 

[yaco]

Young rider classification:

Fisher-Black
Realini +42s
Muzic +1:31

Realini was 2:41 behind after the TTT so she's catching fast, if she can avoid losing more time on the flatter stages like on stage 3. The gap between Fisher-Black and Muzic is entirely from the TTT, they've finished the other stages 1,3 and 5 seconds apart.

SD Worx will ride conservatively to maintain AVD's lead which will also help Fisher Black in the young riders classification , as she can sit in the peleton, instead of setting pace on hillier parts of the parcours.

 

[RedheadDane]

Gaia Realini makes Eider Merino look like Kirsten Wild. Fingers crossed she isn't a Francesca Cauz false dawn or a Kseniya Tuhai Chekhov play, because the bunch needs more pocket rocket escaladoras!

Sprint-skill wise, or size wise?

 

[Dk one]

Seems like the riders were not informed of the time limit, Grossette is heartbroken bc she took it easy to save herself for the rest of the race, which might be the case for other riders like Sheyla G. Norsgaard was not that far from missing the cut off either, and though her strength in TTs primarily lie on flatter courses, I bet she could have improved her time significantly if she gave her all instead of, presumably, saving herself for today's stage.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I doubt Realini is shorter than Merino, but she's probably not much taller either. Judged by this picture, I'd say she's 155-158 cm., so Mathias Norsgaard could also easily carry her like a baby.

SD Worx will try to get stage wins for some their other riders and that could include Fisher-Black, too. Unless she cracks on Matajur or Muzic ends up in a break without her, I think she'll hold on to the white jersey.