Giro d'Italia 2025 Giro d'Italia Women, July 6-13

[Samu Cuenca]

Hats off to UAE for mastering this once again, but it is a shame that it's the "wrong" riders that are losing time, although that is to be expected.

 

[Didinho]

Wiebes vs Vos.

And Gasparrini for podium.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

#100 and whatever.

 

[yaco]

Today was another example of the passivity in the women's peleton. There is no way that a 9km crosswind should cause echelons. Looking at the general level its been a disappointing year in the women's peleton.

 

[JR1012]

SD Worx Italian training camp this week.

Pretty good training camp when you have 2 stage wins and sitting 3rd overall.
I think most of the teams riding the Giro would take these results with open arms.

 

[yaco]

Pretty good training camp when you have 2 stage wins and sitting 3rd overall.
I think most of the teams riding the Giro would take these results with open arms.

The results flatter their performance. Wiebes could win in a club team, while the GC is flattering in the extreme.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Hats off to UAE for mastering this once again, but it is a shame that it's the "wrong" riders that are losing time, although that is to be expected.

If there is a split to be had, Pauliena Rooijakkers will find a way to miss it.

 

[JosefK]

Just when it looked as if Sarah Gigante was going to throw a spanner into the GC works, she gets caught on the wrong side of a split in the peloton. Looks like it's going to be Reusser vs. ELB for the big prize. ... At least there's a battle, there.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Just when it looked as if Sarah Gigante was going to throw a spanner into the GC works, she gets caught on the wrong side of a split in the peloton. Looks like it's going to be Reusser vs. ELB for the big prize. ... At least there's a battle, there.

The battle for third could also become exciting if Van der Breggen isn't climbing better than she did yesterday.

 

[awavey]

Kopecky has withdrawn from the giro, reporting lower back pain issues on the bike which is worse on climbs. Taking 3-4days rest off bike to protect TdFF participation

https://twitter.com/x/status/1943385699128086639

View: https://x.com/teamsdworx/status/1943385699128086639

 

[awavey]

English translation

"Lotte Kopecky withdraws from Giro d'Italia Women as a precaution

Lotte Kopecky will not start tomorrow's sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia Women. The world champion is still experiencing some discomfort in her lower back. As a precaution ahead of the Tour de France Femmes, she is leaving the Giro d'Italia Women to take three to four days of complete rest.

According to the medical staff of Team SD Worx – Protime, the discomfort in her lower back should heal completely with a few days of rest. She will then be able to resume her preparations for the Tour de France Femmes as planned.

Kopecky led the sprint today for Lorena Wiebes, who recorded her second stage victory in three days. With a second, third and fourth place in the stage results, Kopecky has performed well in Italy over the past few days. However, she experienced some discomfort in her lower back when climbing, so she did not want to push herself too hard."

 

[JR1012]

English translation

"Lotte Kopecky withdraws from Giro d'Italia Women as a precaution

Lotte Kopecky will not start tomorrow's sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia Women. The world champion is still experiencing some discomfort in her lower back. As a precaution ahead of the Tour de France Femmes, she is leaving the Giro d'Italia Women to take three to four days of complete rest.

According to the medical staff of Team SD Worx – Protime, the discomfort in her lower back should heal completely with a few days of rest. She will then be able to resume her preparations for the Tour de France Femmes as planned.

Kopecky led the sprint today for Lorena Wiebes, who recorded her second stage victory in three days. With a second, third and fourth place in the stage results, Kopecky has performed well in Italy over the past few days. However, she experienced some discomfort in her lower back when climbing, so she did not want to push herself too hard."

As expected, that at some point she will leave the race.

 

[awavey]

As expected, that at some point she will leave the race.

yep, clearly great prep for the TdFF pulling out with an injury

 

[Samu Cuenca]

yep, clearly great prep for the TdFF pulling out with an injury

Whether it's real or not, it's always a pity when a big star leaves.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stage 6: Bellaria-Igea Marina - Terre Roveresche (Orciano di Pesaro), 145 km

Official start at 10:35
Expected finish at around 14:30

Stage 6 takes the riders through San Marino, so it would only be right if Valentina Venerucci makes it into the breakaway. The race also visited the country on stage 4 last year, where the break succeeded and the constantly unlucky Clara Emond crossed the line first. Today's stage is longer and harder, but after the surprises during the first five stages, it's hard to predict the exact outcome.

Then we have the uncategorised climb to Mondiaino with i about 6 km at 5% avg. The first 2 km and the last km are all at around 6%.

The next climb towards Mondavio, which starts after 117 km, is 4 km at 4%, followed by a short descent followed by a couple of hundred metres at 5%.

The final climb from Monte Porzio towards Orciano di Pesaro is approx. 3.7 km at 4.8%. It consists of four ramps. Three of them have percentages at 6-8% max., but one of them hits 11-12% at its steepest. The top comes 6 km before the line. As you can see on the profile for the last 3 km, the road continues to go up and down all the way to the finish.

 

[Didinho]

Reusser received a yellow card in the sprint yesterday. No time loss or UCI points, just a little fine.

 

[yaco]

I feel this should be a break as the GC contenders should wait for the last 2 stages.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

While the stage the other day partially resembled a T-A, this one is very much a Coppi e Bartali inspired parcours.

The first attacks haven't stuck. Ostolaza won the QOM in San Marino and has decreased Gigante's lead to 7 points in that competition.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A nice aggressive stage. It looks like Lippert will smoke Rooijakkers in the finish, but they can't afford to play too many games before the line with Van Anrooij trying to bridge across.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Easy win for Liane. Rooijakkers ended up taking quite a lot of time and is now back in the fight for the podium.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

A nice aggressive stage. It looks like Lippert will smoke Rooijakkers in the finish, but they can't afford to play too many games before the line with Van Anrooij trying to bridge across.

Lippert vs. Rooijakkers in a sprint is a pretty uneven battle. One of the best at sprinting after a hard stage vs. one of the least sprinty riders imaginable.

 

[Unchained]

Lippert vs. Rooijakkers in a sprint is a pretty uneven battle. One of the best at sprinting after a hard stage vs. one of the least sprinty riders imaginable.

I watched last @20 k..great finish!!
Arnooij is absolutely beautiful on the bike!! She was absolutely perfect trying to cross!! She didn't make it but fun to watch and her speed and form had me believing she could make it..
Her teammates were so so didn't get into @3rd -5th in the line making the chase a little more disrupted.. and neither sprinted, just rolled across..
Lippert rode very smart and strong, she should have never, ever got a lead out after @2 k to go.. Awesome finish for top 3!!

 

[yaco]

A much better stage today and as I expected a break would take the day. I suspect van Anrooij and Smulders will be kicking themselves for attacking too late.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stage 7: Fermignano - Monte Nerone, 150 km

Official start at 09:55
Expected finish at around 14:30

Then queen stage has arrived. 150 km await the riders. 4 categorised climbs finishing off with the Monte Nerone and over 3500m of total elevation gain. I thought last year's race would be decided on Blockhaus, but it wasn't, so with Reusser and Longo Borghini having been fairly evenly matched so far it can no longer be ruled out that we'll get another very close fight for the Maglia Rosa. However, Nerone is both longer and steeper than Pianezze was so the gaps could very well be bigger as a result.

The Monte Soma between Apecchio to Acquapartita offers up an intermediate sprint, but with it being 7 km at 5.4% ir probably won't be won by a sprinter. Question is whether a break has been established during the first 44 km or if it will be duked out by between the GC riders.

After 13 km descent, the next 35 km of the stages consist of four climbs. Moria comes first, then La Croce, followed by a 2.8 km, 5.3% avg. hill (the last 1.5 km are at 7% with some parts above 10%), and finally La Forchetta. 56 km remain from the end of this sequence.

After 20 km of descent and flatter roads we'll have the penultimate climb of the day, Cuppia. After the top there's another 7 km of false flat/fake descent before the actual descent.

The descent could have been avoided entirely by turning left and climbing Nerone from the east, which would have made the stage 14 km shorter, but that's not what they've done. Instead we're starting from the north before heading west towards the finish, which is located at the pass, not at the highest paved point, around 1 km further up the mountain.

As you can see on the profile, the first half of the climb rarely goes above 7%, while the second half is nearly over 8% throughout. It's not as difficult as Blockhaus from last year, but you still wouldn't want to have un jour sans here. It could be won by the eventual winner, but it could also be another Bradbury/Gigante kind of victor, who is either the outright strongest or who takes advantage of tactical games between the riders fighting for the Giro title.

 

[yaco]

I could not understand the tactics of NG Inusrance in the final. Rooijakers skipped up the road and ended up grabbing forth from Gigante who was stuck in the leaders group. Yet no Zigart riding at the front of the group to control the group, and instead she was attcking the group. Poor form by NG Insurance.