La Course by le Tour de France

[RedheadDane]

What? No thread for this race?

Today, Sunday the 27th of July, The women are going to reach Champs-Élysées first!
13 high-speed laps on the famous Circuit.

The question is; who'll win? (It'll be double-up on the Lotto vs. Giant battle today.)

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Wish they could have been given one of the more exciting stages to do, but they will get maximum crowds this way, which is pretty cool.

Next step: a couple more stages...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

And we're live with 35km to go, World ITT champion Ellen van Dijk off the front solo. A couple of moves with Scandolara, Slappendal and Ferrand-Prévot have been halted.

 

[ebandit]

thanks!

thanks! RHD LS I'm excited..............here in the UK we are lucky to have live coverage on ITV4

hoping for a win from my fave georgia b

Mark L

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Koedooder making the move now, she has one of the best surnames in cycling history, and Ellen van Dijk again as well, this makes a strong escape, they won't want to let them go very far at all.

 

[Zora_DB]

They're not going to let anyone get away it seems!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

That's a big move from PFP and Pieters. French national champion off the front on the Champs! Too far for her to stay away I think, but a French champion winning would be about the best thing that could happen for women's cycling in France, attention would be big.

And now Rabo go back to plan A: Marianne, as the group chases the duo down.

Armitstead and PFP down with 1,5km to go!

 

[Zora_DB]

Oh noes, Lizzie down

 

[ebandit]

vos

m vos............what a surprise!

Mark L

 

[Libertine Seguros]

And it's Marianne! Much closer than it often is. Bridie O'Donnell was saying on Twitter that the finish being on a wide open boulevard making it as much about brute force as about technical position-holding (something Vos holds the cards in) meant that the sprint was very close as opposed to the domination we often see from Marianne on more technical run-ins.

 

[RedheadDane]

Good race.

Just one question: Did Rabobank have a team consisting entirely of champs? Didn't seem to see one regular Rabo-jersey.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

1 Marianne Vos (RBW) NED
2 Kirsten Wild (GIW) NED
3 Leah Kirchmann (OPW) CAN
4 Barbara Guarischi (ALE) ITA
5 Shelley Olds (ALE) USA
6 Coryn Rivera (UHC) USA
7 Jolien d'Hoore (LBL) BEL
8 Emma Johansson (GEW) SWE
9 Simone Frapporti (BPK) ITA
10 Roxane Fournier (FUT) FRA

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Good race.

Just one question: Did Rabobank have a team consisting entirely of champs? Didn't seem to see one regular Rabo-jersey.

Rabo have a fair few non-champions, but the most prominent today were mostly those that are.

They have:

Dutch national RR (Iris Slappendal)
Dutch national TT (Annemiek van Vleuten)
French national RR (Pauline Ferrand-Prévot)
French national TT (Pauline Ferrand-Prévot)
World champion RR (Marianne Vos)

That's actually it, believe it or not. Back in June though, you had one crazy stage in the Emakumeen Bira where all of the riders were in different kits - PFP in the leader's jersey, van der Breggen in the points, Annemiek in the mountains jersey, Vos in the rainbow stripes, Brand in the Dutch champions' jersey and de Jong in the normal kit.

 

[shalgo]

Enjoyed the race. Let's hope it keeps going and more stages get added.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Why got this stickied - three hours after the race ended?

 

[Afrank]

Why got this stickied - three hours after the race ended?

Because every race is suppose to be/deserves to be stickied. Plus, you know, equal with the men's race and all that. I would have done it sooner during the race if I had been awake at the time. I'll unsticky it at the same time the Tour stage is unstickied.

 

[Spiff2]

Because every race is suppose to be/deserves to be stickied. Plus, you know, equal with the men's race and all that. I would have done it sooner during the race if I had been awake at the time. I'll unsticky it at the same time the Tour stage is unstickied.

Thank you for that!

It was a fun race to watch. I hope for more stages next year.

 

[Granville57]

Because every race is suppose to be/deserves to be stickied.

Yes, well let us consider a few facts here next time all the faux outrage erupts over the lack of coverage/attention of women's cycling, shall we?

1) This thread was only created at the very last minute.

2) All of four different members even bothered to participate (and really only two contributed much).

3) It barely made it to Page 2 even though this represented one of the biggest audiences yet for women's pro cycling.

4) At the race's conclusion, there were only about 400+ thread views.

5) Marion Vos won. Again.


This race had been promoted as some of turning point in the current era of giving women's racing their proper due. And yet on the CN forums, nobody really seemed to care.

I eagerly await the next wave of outrage over women's cycling not getting the attention it deserves. Not a whisper today from some of the more vocal proponents of that noble cause.

Most curious.

Plus, you know, equal with the men's race and all that.

Uh huh.

 

[Zora_DB]

I can only speak for myself, but although I didn't contribute much to the thread (thanks for judging!), my outrage at the lack of coverage is not 'faux' and I really appreciate that the thread exists and was stickied. We don't make progress by belittling people or accusing them of faking their emotions.

 

[Jerkovin]

I enjoyed it anyway.

 

[Spiff2]

Yes, well let us consider a few facts here next time all the faux outrage erupts over the lack of coverage/attention of women's cycling, shall we?

1) This thread was only created at the very last minute.

2) All of four different members even bothered to participate (and really only two contributed much).

3) It barely made it to Page 2 even though this represented one of the biggest audiences yet for women's pro cycling.

4) At the race's conclusion, there were only about 400+ thread views.

5) Marion Vos won. Again.


This race had been promoted as some of turning point in the current era of giving women's racing their proper due. And yet on the CN forums, nobody really seemed to care.

I eagerly await the next wave of outrage over women's cycling not getting the attention it deserves. Not a whisper today from some of the more vocal proponents of that noble cause.

Most curious.



Uh huh.

You are confusing different issues here. The fact that women's cycling is not discussed in Cycling News forums is not evidence that there is no interest in women's cycling. Frankly, the tone of many exchanges here puts off some dedicated readers.

Yes, Marianne Vos won. She is an amazing cyclist, frequently compared to Merckx. She is in one of the few women's teams that gets good funding (so not wondering how they'll afford to eat and get to the next race); she is also a great ambassador to the sport and a great role model. Nothing to take against her.

 

[fowlyetti]

Vos kills womens cycling

 

[Zora_DB]

Would La Course have even happened without Vos? I agree it's a bit boring when one rider dominates so much, but not sure how she's killing women's cycling?

Unless you mean she's 'killing it' as in pwning.

 

[el_angliru]

Good race. And Julie Leth was a great commentator (Danish TV2). She could spot and name every rider even when the whole peloton was seen from the helicopter's bird view. Great. More stages in 2015, please!

 

[theyoungest]

And it's Marianne! Much closer than it often is. Bridie O'Donnell was saying on Twitter that the finish being on a wide open boulevard making it as much about brute force as about technical position-holding (something Vos holds the cards in) meant that the sprint was very close as opposed to the domination we often see from Marianne on more technical run-ins.

I fully expected Wild to take this, she's the Kittel of the women's peloton. Vos is more of a Sagan.

Then again, it's Vos. If she really wants something, good luck to try and beat her.