Vuelta a España La Vuelta Femenina 2024 (April 28th-May 5th)

[Izzyeviel]

COMMUNIQUE OF THE COMMISSAIRES’ PANEL 5

Art. 2.12.007/8.3

.Rider disposing of waste outside the litter zones. 250 CHF & 15 points from UCI rankings. Rider n 52 BARBIERI Rachele (1000714743) DFP

Doesn't appear to a medical bulletin which is good.

 

[Unchained]

This stage was a most pleasant surprise.

For sure a surprise and no surprise, most of the best talent made the break and very few games played. Everyone was pulling through and working to stay away. Enjoyable to watch

 

[yaco]

I still think it was a questionable call to go for a stage win rather than fully back García's GC hopes. That said, getting a stage win is probably worth more than a small chance of getting top 5 overall.

Do you realise that Jayco has not won a race in Europe since 2022 ? So the team has to go for the win. The team had three riders Campbell, Korevaar and Gaskjenn supporting Garcia in the second group. Garcia can still get a good result if she climbs well in the last four stages.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Baril's GC chances suffered as well. She's of course a worse climber than Lippert, but a top 10 would have been a possibility if she had made the split.

A top 10 is still possible, just unlikely. She's only a couple of minutes adrift, and a fair few above her she's a better climber than. She does well on the inconsistent and mid-length climbs of the north too. It's a tall order but far from out of the realm of possibility. Especially as Lippert also lost time and, although more proven, is also on unknown form coming off injury, so the team are less likely to subsume one rider to another GC-wise.

 

[jmdirt]

Congrats Faulkner!

 

[Izzyeviel]

DNF: Niewiadoma Neumanova

 

[Samu Cuenca]

DNF: Niewiadoma Neumanova

Still a shame. After her second place behind Kopecky on that Burgos stage two years ago, I was hoping we'd get to see her fight for victories more frequently.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

FDJ's really giving it a go here.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Sadly this isn't a very steep climb, so we've only lost riders than didn't have aby chance to do well anyway. Maybe FDJ should have used their riders to attack one after the other instead.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

But luckily Niedermaier wanted to attack, so Brown could follow her. Not a bad duo to get away.

 

[Sciatic]

Vas not on a good day

 

[glassmoon]

Realini down...

 

[RedheadDane]

Realini...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Gaia

 

[glassmoon]

they let her back on the bike? she could barely walk straight ffs

 

[ice&fire]

Peloton shred to pieces in the descent

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm surprised Fenix-Deceuninck are pushing here, unless Rooijakkers is dead after her attack.

 

[awavey]

they let her back on the bike? she could barely walk straight ffs

Dani Rowe was on comms saying the team doctors will have checked her out first....

yeah in the less than 10secs to swap a bike, don't think so somehow.

She was lying on her left side, but it seems to be the right arm thats come off worse

 

[Sciatic]

They get a gap . . . And then stop working together? I don’t know the composition of that break, so possible that most had teammate leaders behind so wouldn’t cooperate?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Kasia in trouble.

 

[ice&fire]

Kasia in trouble.

Everyone in trouble

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I certainly didn't expect Kastelijn to be able to follow for that long.

Everyone in trouble

She was still struggling quite early. I know she was sick last week, but still unexpected after the first stages.

 

[Unchained]

DV is absolutely hammering

 

[awavey]

Just Do It

 

[Izzyeviel]

Cadzow has really improved over the past year.