Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[awavey]

and I should add as youll no doubt repeatedly hear during comms of this stage, in central london every picture is a tourist picture postcard of London, ooh look theres Buck house, ooh look a red telephone box, ooh look the River Thames.

south london isnt that picturesque

cue obligatory picture of Trafalgar square and nothing we can see of the race

 

[awavey]

1st sprint
Paternoster
Copponi
Lach

 

[Didinho]

1st sprint
Paternoster
Copponi
Lach

Letizia wants to stay on the GC podium. Good start.

 

[awavey]

Kaja Rysz, Lifeplus Wahoo, gets a 10ish second lead on the peloton, 42km to go

 

[awavey]

Letizia wants to stay on the GC podium. Good start.

yep it bumped her ahead of Kopecky

 

[awavey]

thought that time gap started to look a bit weird, shes now been joined by Scarlett Souren of VolkerWessels

 

[awavey]

at some point the BBC will identify the 3rd rider chasing

and its Angela Oro

 

[RedheadDane]

at some point the BBC will identify the 3rd rider chasing

Angela Oro, as far as I could see by the number.

 

[yaco]

Letizia wants to stay on the GC podium. Good start.

Have no idea why Paternoster and Baker are at the same race. They are both around equal in speed, however, Paternoster is more versatile and can get up punchy finishes. You could have sent Baker to Bretagne Classic and she would have dusted Roy in the sprint and probably finish top 5 in the ITT.

 

[Didinho]

Peloton gained almost a minute with just positioning for the intermediate sprint.

 

[Didinho]

Close one.

 

[awavey]

Sprint 2
Wollaston
Paternoster
Copponi

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Allez, Ally!

 

[Didinho]

How many seconds left at the finish?

 

[awavey]

10, 6 and 4

 

[Samu Cuenca]

How many seconds left at the finish?

Usually the race is over then.

 

[awavey]

Copponi bike change, puncture ?

 

[awavey]

Chris if all terrain vehicles are banned in the peloton,for safety, please explain the Ineos Grenadier

 

[awavey]

Paternoster at the back, somehow missed by the "excellent" tv coverage

 

[awavey]

that looked like a crash back there

 

[awavey]

yep Lieke Nooijen Visma taken out by a cone

 

[awavey]

Wiebes wins

 

[Didinho]

Kopecky 3th and 2nd GC maybe?

 

[awavey]

Kopecky 3th and 2nd GC maybe?

yes I think so as it will be on countback on positions on earlier stages, maybe. I was surprised they didnt let Kopecky win that instead.

 

[Didinho]

Kool takes 2nd. Kopecky 3th.

Sad for Letizia. They came faster from the right with the Kopecky leadout. No chance today. And she went hard in the intermediates.