Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[Samu Cuenca]

1. Vos
2. Markus + 50 seconds
3. Aalerud +55-ish
4. Minke +1:10
5. Le Court +1:20-ish. Great ride by her, too

Muzic lost 2:30.

 

[awavey]

apparently there was a crash in the peloton at some point today, missed by the coverage I think, Daniek Hengeveld has gone to hospital for a checkover

 

[awavey]

15km to go, Jo Tindley still 43 secs ahead of the peloton

 

[awavey]

Valerie Demey breaks, sweeps past Jo Tindley, who is quickly swallowed up by the peloton, Valerie has got a 10sec gap. 10km to go

 

[awavey]

Demey is swept up, more drivetrain issues with a bike, though I think she'd been caught anyway

 

[awavey]

Wiebes wins

 

[Didinho]

Wiebes just a level above. Strong team to put her in perfect position.
Letizia with a well timed strong leadout today. Podium place in GC. She’ll be happy.

 

[Izzyeviel]

What the hell did I watch?

 

[yaco]

Last two stage races in Spain have thrown up some strange results. There is no way that in Valenciana, Jayco should have created such big gaps on GC, while today it was a surprise to see Vos dominate on the climb.

 

[awavey]

Wiebes just a level above. Strong team to put her in perfect position.
Letizia with a well timed strong leadout today. Podium place in GC. She’ll be happy.

strong team helped, it makes it sound boringly predictable as a finish, but upto 1km to go the other teams had blocked the SD Worx train & run in quite effectively, we didnt see how it happened as they kept switching to low signal blurry helicam, but somehow Marjerus pulled their train to the front at the critical point,that allowed her to take the final sweeping corner at the speed & line she wanted which launched Kopecky and Wiebes up the road, the rest it seemed all had to check their speed or lines, and as a result couldnt then out sprint the sprint lead out. Only Kool, led by Barbieri & Baker who was led out by Paternoster were within touching distance.

 

[yaco]

Wiebes just a level above. Strong team to put her in perfect position.
Letizia with a well timed strong leadout today. Podium place in GC. She’ll be happy.

It was the right call today for Jayco to ride for Baker. The fact is Wiebes, Kool and Balsamo are on one level and there another 6 or 7 riders on the next level. Though, I still maintain that Baker and Paternoster should split their races.

 

[Didinho]

Just found out there’s a 4th stage in Britain tomorrow. Another sprint?

 

[awavey]

Just found out there’s a 4th stage in Britain tomorrow. Another sprint?

oh yes, we havent finished the race yet but yes its a sprint finish into Leigh after a ride around Greater Manchester

 

[awavey]

Ellen van Dijk had a training crash this week, fractured a bone in her ankle which will require surgery, recovery is expected to take 2 weeks, but her focus is on making the Olympics

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[Libertine Seguros]

Just found out there’s a 4th stage in Britain tomorrow. Another sprint?

Yea, it's basically emblematic of everything that's wrong with race organisation in the UK. Sell the stage as hard because of some tough ascents, but make sure that there's no chance of them ever being decisive, and give the council paying for the finish the chance to bang some boards and watch a horse race on bikes where nobody knows who is who and they can just yell while the horde comes past. Knowing the history of the race, probably with a dangerous final kilometre, too.

 

[Motopace]

If women had a lesser known race around my area I would go out and clap, what a race, interesting finish, it's like Roglic, stomp em

 

[awavey]

Stage 4 coverage

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxRYI--LXw

 

[Wyndbrook]

I think we get the point concerning British racing, it's becoming like a stuck record.
Funding has been an issue historically , and was always going to be an big issue this year. Dependant on cash poor local authorities and my 'British Cycling' membership subscription.
Lloyds bank (my money again) were not on board at the time.
I'm amazed the race this year even happened. Lots of other races in more cycling centric countries totally disappear for money reasons to never appear.
The riders like the race, the many fans on the roadside enjoy themselves, and ITV create a focused enjoyable highlights programme .

 

[awavey]

Lizzie D going for an 80km solo ride ?

 

[awavey]

Lizzie D now virtual race leader, SD Worx not really reacting yet.

also typically Manchester style weather

 

[awavey]

Charlotte Kool attempting to bridge the gap to Lizzie D

 

[awavey]

well the Rake shaked that up abit, Lizzie Ds gap down to 10secs, and a group of only 5, Henderson,Koppecky,Georgi, Paternoster, and Majerus, with the rest of the peloton shredded, following her

 

[awavey]

the 2nd groups numbers are swelling as riders from behind catch them up, Lizzie D slowly building a gap again

 

[Didinho]

With the rain and that steep section it’s hard enough to get gaps in this peloton.

Hard stage like this. Still 45km to go. Kopecky doing a lot of work herself already.

 

[awavey]

hopefully theyll find some mobile signal before the intermediate sprint