2021 Ladies Tour of Norway, 2.WWT - 12th to 15th August

[RedheadDane]

Time for the only WT race in Norway!

Provisional startlist:

Startlist for Ladies Tour of Norway 2021 (procyclingstats.com)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 1 » Halden › Sarpsborg (141.5km)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 2 » Askim › Mysen (145km)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 3 » Drammen › Norefjell (145km)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 4 » Drøbak › Halden (141.6km)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

And here are the official stage profiles as a bonus treat.
The race will be broadcast live on Eurosport/ES Player/GCN and on Norwegian TV2.

 

[RedheadDane]

1: @Red Rick! What the *** is this doing down here????

2: How far? How much to the break?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

1: @Red Rick! What the *** is this doing down here????

2: How far? How much to the break?

2: Less than 60 km, but I don't know why they can't show it on the screen.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We have graphics. I repeat, we have graphics!!!

 

[RedheadDane]

And... graphics are gone...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Faulkner on her own now with 50 seconds to the peloton with 12 km left.

 

[sir fly]

I can't fill the screen with the Ladies Tour of Norway!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Faulkner wins after a crash with 2 km to go disrupted the chase.

 

[sir fly]

Heroic ride!
Congrats to Faulkner.

Danes like their cycling race better than Norwegians like theirs.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Heroic ride!
Congrats to Faulkner.

Danes like their cycling race better than Norwegians like theirs.

We'll see next year, when this race starts in Denmark.

A bit of a revenge for Faulkner over the US selection committee for not bringing her to the Olympics, but bad for me, cause I did consider her as my stage huntress pick.

Fine start for Cille, even though she just missed out on bonus seconds. I missed some of the final action, so I'm not sure what happened to Cavalli.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm pretty sure Cavalli was the FdJ rider, who was involved in the crash with Cordon Ragot, Korevaar, possibly Harvey, Leah Thomas and a SD Worx rider (maybe Cecchini), but a lot more riders were affected by it, especially Rivera.. Given it was an uphill finish, I assume they're not going to reset the time differences.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

 

[yaco]

It was an embarrassing effort from the peleton not to pick off Faulkner when she had an 11 second lead with just over 2 kms to go.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

With none of the bonanza sprinters like Wiebes or Norsgaard on hand, it seems a lot more indecisiveness crept over the bunch there.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1425865882610319361

View: https://twitter.com/Brodie_Mai/status/1425865882610319361


It seems that some of those, who were affected by the crash, have been given the same time as the front group now.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Brodie is usually good for some entertaining race commentary

 

[yaco]

With none of the bonanza sprinters like Wiebes or Norsgaard on hand, it seems a lot more indecisiveness crept over the bunch there.

A bit of a strange finish even taking into account the characteristics of ladies cycling - A peleton of 40 riders with teams having multiple riders, yet only Valcar did a lead out.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A bit of a strange finish even taking into account the characteristics of ladies cycling - A peleton of 40 riders with teams having multiple riders, yet only Valcar did a lead out.

Well everyone was probably expecting DSM to do it, but then they lost Rivera in the crash, and nobody was ready to take over from Valcar, who started their leadout a bit too early anyway. Still DSM had both Mackaij and Labous in the group, so they should probably have used one of them to set the pace, before Roy started the sprint.

 

[yaco]

Well everyone was probably expecting DSM to do it, but then they lost Rivera in the crash, and nobody was ready to take over from Valcar, who started their leadout a bit too early anyway. Still DSM had both Mackaij and Labous in the group, so they should probably have used one of them to set the pace, before Roy started the sprint.

Roy also had one or team-mates in the leading group.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Roy also had one or team-mates in the leading group.

The whole thing was a mess after the chrash, where there initally were a group of 23 riders with the rest fighting to get back on, so Roy was actually isolated, whereas the three DSM riders were there all along.
Anyway they probably won't give the break too much leeway today.

How do you turn a ride between two cities approximately 13 km apart into a 145 km stage? It's easy, just get someone with an unsteady hand to draw the route!