The Dynamic Duo of Movistar - Baril and Mackaij - has gone on the hunt.
The DD of M is Lippert and Mackaij with Mackaij's dog as its mascot.
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The Dynamic Duo of Movistar - Baril and Mackaij - has gone on the hunt.
The DD of M is Lippert and Mackaij with Mackaij's dog as its mascot.
They can have multiple DDs.
Winspace have chased them, but the gap is still 50 seconds with 4 km left.
It's not that big a gap to write off the bunch yet, if the leaders start to struggle. The moto being still behind Blanco suggests they're doing decently, mind.Christie is alone now. Mackaij is getting dropped by Roberts and Blanco, so Movistar have blown it.
The bunch were never more than about 36" behind, so the chase was never that far back to come from it. The real surprise for me is that it was Usoa Ostolaza and not Ane Santesteban who would have been somebody I would have looked at the constitution of the bunch behind and said "yes, she will be the best climber there".Congrats to Blanco.
Where on earth did that other Laboral rider come from?
(She probably came from somewhere further down the climb, to be realistic.)
meanwhile in London the ceremonial battering of a papiermache unicorn
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When you call your stage race based on a one-day race from the 2010s a „classique“ for foreign language points, you don‘t deserve any route at all, thoughPCS at least give us a mention of a cult classic at London, highlighting that Wiebes has the chance to win every stage of a stage race here (and would be the favourite to do so given the parcours you'd say) - the last woman to do this was... Lilibeth Chacón. Before that, it happened 3 times in 2022 - Vollering in Itzulia, Skalniak-Sójka in the Princess Anna Vasa Tour, and Lorena Wiebes... in RideLondon Classique.
Fix the course, guys and girls. When the same rider wins every stage of the race twice in three years without ever leaving the confines of the péloton, you need to do something about it.
PCS at least give us a mention of a cult classic at London, highlighting that Wiebes has the chance to win every stage of a stage race here (and would be the favourite to do so given the parcours you'd say) - the last woman to do this was... Lilibeth Chacón. Before that, it happened 3 times in 2022 - Vollering in Itzulia, Skalniak-Sójka in the Princess Anna Vasa Tour, and Lorena Wiebes... in RideLondon Classique.
Fix the course, guys and girls. When the same rider wins every stage of the race twice in three years without ever leaving the confines of the péloton, you need to do something about it.
Even within Essex, though, they could e.g. have a circuit around Laindon or Basildon including this:I was hearing rumours in Colchester, that Maldon is confirmed for another 2 years at least as a stage and Essex county council infact confirmed theyve got a contract with Ride London till 2026, and the London crit isnt going anywhere, so more of the same I guess. sadly when Surrey council lost their nerve on the sportive, it left Essex to pick it up, so the race will only ever be around Essex and the finale in London which really limits the course options.
its annoying because Id far rather it was a 1 day race that followed the Olympic road course, as it was meant to be as the legacy event from the Olympics, instead of this kind of odd 3 day race thats only about sprinters, well a sprinter really, as when you add in the almost reluctance of other teams to work together to out think SD Worx, theres only one winner.
When you call your stage race based on a one-day race from the 2010s a „classique“ for foreign language points, you don‘t deserve any route at all, though