Amstel Gold Race - Ladies Edition 2026

[RedheadDane]

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Here's the link to all the details regarding climbs. Also, you can check the Men's thread.

Anway, race is on live; images in around an hour... see ya!

 

[JR1012]

Thank you for creating.

I think we all know how the race will unfold. FDJ will control the race and on the last Cauberg climb, Vollering will attack. Maybe Kasia can follow, but it doesn't matter. Because we all know who will win a sprint between those two riders.

I hope that the other top teams will attack soon to make the race at least a bit more interesting.

 

[Didinho]

Fdjeux already controlling the climbs and making the race hard. It will be easier for Demi to create space when she goes.

 

[RedheadDane]

We're live!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

And we've already missed all the interesting climbs because we're on the crappy 2012 Worlds course.

 

[Didinho]

Moors already anticipating. Koch brings them back.

 

[Valv.Piti]

How was this very mediocre rider, Vallieries, allowed to win Worlds on such a course?

 

[RedheadDane]

Siggaard: "Juliette Berthet. She used to be called 'Labous', but she got married underway."

In Danish, it kinda sounded like she got married in the middle of the race.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

How was this very mediocre rider, Vallieries, allowed to win Worlds on such a course?

Marianne Vos won the Worlds on this course

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

How was this very mediocre rider, Vallieries, allowed to win Worlds on such a course?

Is that not the beauty of the sport: that sometimes the outsider taking a risk can be successful?

 

[Didinho]

Wiebes done.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Marty getting his first mention of Anna Henderson in.

 

[Didinho]

Vos done.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Marianne Vos won the Worlds on this course

Im talking about Kigali which I think you know.. in theory, a hard enough course to ensure such riders not being able to win

Is that not the beauty of the sport: that sometimes the outsider taking a risk can be successful?

Not really, I tuned in and immedialety saw the WC champ being dropped from a 50 women peloton struggling. Thats not worthy IMO.

 

[Didinho]

Finally some team tactics. Vollering already closing 2 gaps herself. Koch done.

 

[Didinho]

Blasi showing herself again. Impressive in Brabantse on Friday.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Im talking about Kigali which I think you know.. in theory, a hard enough course to ensure such riders not being able to win

Not really, I tuned in and immedialety saw the WC champ being dropped from a 50 women peloton struggling. Thats not worthy IMO.

There's also altitude to consider - while not extreme, the Kigali Worlds were at 1500m or so above sea level, which obviously isn't a factor in the Netherlands. Vallières was 5th in Strade Bianche and in the group that settled the win in Brabantse Pijl a couple of days ago, so it's not like she's suddenly turned into a nobody this year after winning the rainbow bands.

With this being three major classics in a week, she might just have recognised she doesn't have it today and phoned it in in the aim of getting away in one of the other two races, particularly LBL, as that can often be sorted by a break if both Amstel and Flèche are raced hard.

 

[Brullnux]

Im talking about Kigali which I think you know.. in theory, a hard enough course to ensure such riders not being able to win

Not really, I tuned in and immedialety saw the WC champ being dropped from a 50 women peloton struggling. Thats not worthy IMO.

Kigali was a very strange race, no? I don't think anybody expected her to win, it was her second ever, right? Surprises like that are rare but do happen, I guess the closest for the men's was Rui Costa or Astarloa or Vainšteins (since 2000).

That said, she's not been that bad this year. Came 5th in Strade and was in the front group on Friday.

Also, to add to my theory that surprises happen every 20 or so years, that was probably the first winner of the WC since the mid 00s who wasn't obviously and clearly one of the very best in the world. But every so often a race is random

 

[RedheadDane]

She's blasing off!

 

[KoopaCycling]

Props to Vollering for being good every year. kopecky (due to injury) has had 2 lesser years.
Strange to say given that she has won San remo this year and flanders last year but true.

 

[Didinho]

She's blasing off!

45” already. Strong effort.

Lidl still with 5 riders in the group.

 

[yaco]

Im talking about Kigali which I think you know.. in theory, a hard enough course to ensure such riders not being able to win

Not really, I tuned in and immedialety saw the WC champ being dropped from a 50 women peloton struggling. Thats not worthy IMO.

Vallieres had a mechanical.

 

[Red Rick]

How often have Tom Boonen, Peter Sagan and MvdP been a disgrace chilling in the Grupetto while wearing the WC jersey.

 

[yaco]

Lidl Trek have the numbers and are not committing to chasing Blasi.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Kigali was a very strange race, no? I don't think anybody expected her to win, it was her second ever, right? Surprises like that are rare but do happen, I guess the closest for the men's was Rui Costa or Astarloa or Vainšteins (since 2000).

That said, she's not been that bad this year. Came 5th in Strade and was in the front group on Friday.

Also, to add to my theory that surprises happen every 20 or so years, that was probably the first winner of the WC since the mid 00s who wasn't obviously and clearly one of the very best in the world. But every so often a race is random

Vainšteins only looks weird in retrospect and because Latvia were a small team. He was really good in 1999-2001. Óscar Freire in 1999 was a much bigger surprise because he was a nobody at the time, however his subsequent career means we don't look back on his initial triumph as being as surprising as it was when it happened. Amalie Dideriksen is a better facsimile for Vainšteins than Vallières, as she won the Worlds at the end of a couple of good years, had one more really good year and then faded from glory. Although Vainšteins was more prominent in his period of glory, winning Paris-Bruxelles, podiuming Flanders, Roubaix and San Sebastián and hitting top 5s or thereabouts in races like Omloop and Gent-Wevelgem as well.

Marta Bastianelli in Stuttgart 2007 is probably the best facsimile as a women's champion, she won as a 20yo with no pro wins to her name. She was pretty good in 2008 but tested positive for an appetite suppressant which she later attributed to her desire to live up to the expectation that she would slim down and become a GC rider, after a suspension and then a break for motherhood, she returned and became the well-established durable sprinter and rouleuse type that we became familiar with in her second run.