La Flèche Wallonne Féminine 2023, one day classic, April 19 (women's)

[Samu Cuenca]

Good moment for Van Vleuten to attack. Lippert looks stronger today.

Trek and Movistar could use their numbers here, but it seems like they're just waiting for the Mur now.

 

[Didinho]

A lot of work for no real benefit

But she could feel the strongest today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ok, she's just casually destroying everyone from the bottom.

 

[dobrien]

But she could feel the strongest today.

Yup, if she's that much better she will have a taken a lot out of everyone else..

 

[Didinho]

Van Vleuten with a Valverde timing for top 7/8.

Vollering the strongest!

 

[dobrien]

Van Vleuten with a Valverde timing for top 7/8.

Vollering the strongest!

Dominant ride. (Lol... nice F-bomb!!)

 

[Didinho]

If you see this penultimate climb, with Pogi in mind. He could destroy the field there. And be the freshest for the Mur.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Vollering never looked in trouble at all. Lippert continues her impressive "top 10 not win" collection.

 

[DNP-Old]

Vollering just smashed the Mur without getting out of the saddle once, damn.

 

[Didinho]

If you see this penultimate climb, with Pogi in mind. He could destroy the field there. And be the freshest for the Mur.

 

[MrTea1976]

Vollering went, others came up and fell back. She looked so measured.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Impressive ride but ugh SD Worx really needs to be broken up somehow.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Great finish from Gaia, and Liane did very well, too, but she was too far behind at the bottom of the Mur.

 

[Didinho]

Impressive ride but ugh SD Worx really needs to be broken up somehow.

In her defense, she was the only one from SD Worx in the last 5km and did most of the work. Played it perfect.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Great finish from Gaia, and Liane did very well, too, but she was too far behind at the bottom of the Mur.

I don't think positioning really came into it. That looked like a crazy move by Vollering to go hard right from the bottom, you'd expect a rider to blow up like Niewiadoma did every time after trying that.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

In her defense, she was the only one from SD Worx in the last 5km and did most of the work. Played it perfect.

For once they didn't have the numbers, but it didn't matter because Vollering was strong enough to put everyone under pressure on the penultimate climb and then TT her way up the Mur.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I don't think positioning really came into it. That looked like a crazy move by Vollering to go hard right from the bottom, you'd expect a rider to blow up like Niewiadoma did every time after trying that.

Yeah, and Lippert could also easily have blown herself up if she had been right on Vollering's wheel.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Muzic getting 5th after not making the front group initially is also a very good performance, but it also looked like she got a bit of a free ride back by Uno-X.

 

[Baldinger]

In her defense, she was the only one from SD Worx in the last 5km and did most of the work. Played it perfect.

The word play implies some sort of tactical effort but Vollering won this on pure strenght. I'd love to see how the strongest riders would race with less watt in the legs.

 

[SafeBet]

Dominant performance by Vollering.
Realini still lacks a bit of self confidence, she launched way too late. But I think she'll win this race someday.

 

[Wvv]

Where was CUL?

 

[JosefK]

Vollering in stomping form for 2023. Trajectory continues higher.

 

[SafeBet]

Where was CUL?

Involved in a crash not far from the finish, I think.

 

[Didinho]

The word play implies some sort of tactical effort but Vollering won this on pure strenght. I'd love to see how the strongest riders would race with less watt in the legs.

She played it perfect as in "break the group, ride in front so they don't attack". It's just an expression in my language, didn't meant it like played it tactically with teammates. She was just a level above the rest indeed and made it a harder race.

 

[movingtarget]

Impressive diesel performance from Vollering, just kept grinding. Then an epic face clean to get herself ready for the podium............