Giro d'Italia 2024 Giro d'Italia Women: 7/7 - 14/7

[Samu Cuenca]

I don't really know why ELB closed that herself. Letting them get away wouldn't have been that bad.

But now Bradbury has a bigger gap, and no one reacts.

 

[Izzyeviel]

If Niamh can't win, then Neve winning is the next best thing.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

ELB is trying, but she can't get rid of LotteLadiesTour (yet). If Bradbury might not win the stage, but it looks like she will take the white jersey as well as the last podium spot away from Niedermaier (they may have known she was starting to suffer, of course).

 

[JR1012]

ELB is playing with fire. If she keeps the GC lead and can't get rid of Kopecky, Kopecky might win the GC on the last stage.

 

[Didinho]

Will be hard to drop Lotte in this 1vs 1 situation.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

ELB could gamble and try to get Lotte to do the work, but then Rooijakkers will probably do it instead.

 

[JR1012]

Bradbury still with no contract for the next years. This will bost her standing and propably the money she will get in the next years.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stop working, Pauliena!

 

[Izzyeviel]

1 second on GC

 

[JR1012]

1 sec. 1 sec.

Last stage will be crazy.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They are pretty evenly matched, it seems. We'll see what happens tomorrow, but if ELB had attempted to let Bradbury gain another minute, it could have potentially have become an even more exciting finale.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Roglic smiling from above.
I mean from his bedroom.

 

[yaco]

Bradbury still with no contract for the next years. This will bost her standing and propably the money she will get in the next years.

Has to be an absolute priority for Liv Jayco who need as Aussie to be a team leader.

 

[JR1012]

So Trek needs to establish a break for tomorrow, so that Kopecky won't win any bonus seconds and SD Worx needs to do the work to bring the break back and give Kopecky the chance to win the Giro.

 

[rghysens]

Well


well the Blockhaus became a defining climb for another Belgian rider once a long time back

A rider that was labelled as a good sprinter and classics rider.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A rider that was labelled as a good sprinter and classics rider.

However for Kopecky that climb was Tourmalet. Nothing she's done since has been the same kind of surprise.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Cândida Barbosa rides on.

 

[awavey]

A rider that was labelled as a good sprinter and classics rider.

Exactly though i felt I was stretching it too much to go that far with the comparison before the stage in case she didn't hulk the climb, as we'd no real benchmark for them on a stage like this

Typical though isn't it SDworx might well have 4d chessed themselves out of a Giro win by going all oh we're not here for the GC. Because you'd think Trek have got to chuck everything at tomorrow or else look incredible daft

 

[Valv.Piti]

Cândida Barbosa rides on.

I suppose that's Kopecky?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I suppose that's Kopecky?

Who else would it have been, lol? I know I typically call her Marit Bjørgen though.

 

[sam6]

Kopecky will win tomorrow presumably? SD Worx should be able to control it and the climb is too far out for any attacks

 

[JR1012]

Kopecky will win tomorrow presumably? SD Worx should be able to control it and the climb is too far out for any attacks

+ the climbs are not hard enough.

 

[awavey]

Kopecky will win tomorrow presumably? SD Worx should be able to control it and the climb is too far out for any attacks

Probably beacuse for me Trek have to attack the stage unleash Lizzie or Lucinda let them try to create or get in a break, maybe even let Gaia go, SD worx don't have the numbers to counter everything, and Guarischi only just made the time cut for this stage.

But they won't they'll shadow Kopecky and she'll drop ELB near the end to either gain the second (which she'd already have if the commissaires had eyes) or win via bonus secs.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Probably beacuse for me Trek have to attack the stage unleash Lizzie or Lucinda let them try to create or get in a break, maybe even let Gaia go, SD worx don't have the numbers to counter everything, and Guarischi only just made the time cut for this stage.

But they won't they'll shadow Kopecky and she'll drop ELB near the end to either gain the second (which she'd already have if the commissaires had eyes) or win via bonus secs.

Trek should absolutely let Gaia go, do their best all day to let breaks go. Teams like Movistar and Laboral Kutxa are their friends of convenience, stage 6 repeat with people like Lippert and Santestebán who are good climbers not involved in GC wanting to escape, who they'll obviously let go and make SD Worx chase. SD should be strong enough to counter it but the more they let go to take bonus seconds out of it the better for Trek of course.

 

[awavey]

+ the climbs are not hard enough.

Then I would say ride them hard enough.

For all the talk about not going for GC, if you don't go for GC in this position with 1 stage left, why are you even there for ?