Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition 2023, one day classic, April 16 (women's)

[Samu Cuenca]

Brand and Stultiens have a gap out on the first of the local laps

https://nos.nl/livestream/2471276-kijk-live-naar-de-amstel-gold-race-vrouwen (requires a VPN for people outside the Netherlands).

 

[theyoungest]

Coryn Labecki already way back... Jumbo Women are having a very poor season so far, but she takes the cake. No way she's still on that team next year, hasn't gotten any results for them.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Coryn Labecki already way back... Jumbo Women are having a very poor season so far, but she takes the cake. No way she's still on that team next year, hasn't gotten any results for them.

She may have been involved in a crash earlier in the race, but sure she hasn't been able to reach her best level at JV yet and could be on her way out.

Vanpachtenbeke is also out after she crashed with Fisher-Black shortly after Cauberg.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Silvia Persico again today. A victory for Grinta

 

[RedheadDane]

Brand and Stultiens have over a minute with less than 50 Ks to go.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The gap was over two minutes, but the pace on Bemelerberg quicky got it down to 1:40.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

End of the break, Elise Chabbey really upped the tempo on Geulhemmerweg and it looks like this is coming back together. Faulkner surprisingly off the pace.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They almost caught them, but then the gap went out again.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Aye, that break between the Geulhemmerweg and the relevant part of the Bemelerberg is just too long for them to sustain the momentum there I think.

 

[Red Rick]

Lol a Golden Retriever trying to push a spectator over the barriers

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Surely Van Vleuten will push the pace on the penultimate Cauberg and/or last Geulhemmerberg.

 

[glassmoon]

Wiebes thinks it's final lap already?

 

[Red Rick]

Wiebes with an.... interesting move

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lol, nobody is going to take a Lorena Wiebes attack from distance seriously enough to expend energy to follow, SD...

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Bizarre attack

 

[SafeBet]

What was Wiebes plan there?

 

[Red Rick]

What was Wiebes plan there?

Strava QoM on the first part of Cauberg.

Only thing that makes sense.

 

[glassmoon]

What was Wiebes plan there?

maybe just a buffer to stay in bunch after the berg... but yeah... strange move

 

[Samu Cuenca]

She wanted to show off her massive power and strength to the spectators.

Nice Faulkner attack here, but they should let SD Worx and Trek close the gap alone.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Smart move from Faulkner. She was the biggest name struggling when the pace was upped a lap ago, so this in effect costs nothing, since she wasn't going to win from the bunch.

Little Miss Contract Law is putting in the most impressive climbing performance of her career, even if successfully cresting the Bemelerberg means nothing. Looks like she's finally done for the day on the last time up Geulhemmerweg though.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

And Wiebes bridges to Faulkner only to blow up immediately

 

[DNP-Old]

This is one of the worst displays of tactics ever by an individual.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

So, when are we going to see an attack uphill?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So, when are we going to see an attack uphill?

Probably it comes on Cauberg, otherwise we're looking for something from anybody who doesn't want a final climb shootout, on the worst climb in the Netherlands...

edit: and then Kasia goes, because she's the Aleksandr Bolshunov of women's cycling. If nobody is willing to waste their energy, she will always be the first to lose patience and move.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

No one getting away haha, was hopeful there for a second for Kasia but an attack like that on the flat isn't her thing.