Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[RedheadDane]

Stage in Poland just started.

 

[awavey]

Stage in Poland just started.

Which seems crazily late in the day to start a stage, even if it's only a 4.5km time trial

 

[RedheadDane]

Which seems crazily late in the day to start a stage, even if it's only a 4.5km time trial

Evenening stages aren't that unheard of, and I don't think it's gonna be dark before they're all done.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Which seems crazily late in the day to start a stage, even if it's only a 4.5km time trial

The amazing Oberösterreich Rundfahrt prologue in Linz also starts around 18:00 local time, but it's is of course also shorter than 1 km.

 

[RedheadDane]

Very Nordic podium:

1	KAGEVI Stina	Team Coop - Repsol	8	5		0:05:41	47.507
2	AINTILA Wilma	Lotto Dstny Ladies	5	2		0:01	47.368
3	LORENZEN Christina Bragh	Denmark	3	1		0:02	47.23

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Very Nordic podium:

1	KAGEVI Stina	Team Coop - Repsol	8	5		0:05:41	47.507
2	AINTILA Wilma	Lotto Dstny Ladies	5	2		0:01	47.368
3	LORENZEN Christina Bragh	Denmark	3	1		0:02	47.23

Nice results for all three of them and for Bragh Lorenzen especially.

 

[Skalman]

Nice results for all three of them and for Bragh Lorenzen especially.

Stina is 18 years old so could be some potential there

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I forgot this race is the drink beer out of comedy glasses podium celebration race, all very German

And if you're Liane Lippert, you down the whole thing.

 

[RedheadDane]

Remember, you can see two races for the price of one.
Both Poland and Thüringen are live now.

 

[RedheadDane]

Molenaar wins the stage in Poland.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bredewold wins the stage in Thüringen.
Edwards takes the lead.

 

[awavey]

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[yaco]

Bredewold wins the stage in Thüringen.
Edwards takes the lead.

Edwards has lead since stage one. The GC was over after stage one.

 

[RedheadDane]

Edwards has lead since stage one. The GC was over after stage one.

Vanpachtenbeke had the lead since stage 1.

 

[yaco]

Vanpachtenbeke had the lead since stage 1.

But Edwards had the race won since stage one. No-one would take two minutes from her in the ITT and Vanpachtenbeke is an ordinary ITTer.

 

[awavey]

But Edwards had the race won since stage one. No-one would take two minutes from her in the ITT and Vanpachtenbeke is an ordinary ITTer.

Which is a totally fair point to make but Edwards still had to finish those stages in between, not lose time etc to be in this position for the ITT, which we already knew would be a decider stage, but ergo Vanpachtenbeke was still leading the race till today.

 

[Didinho]

Kopecky won the omnium today. Afterwards she passed me a couple times, she looks extremely lean and was really impressive in the deciding points race.

Talked a bit with the Italian riders, even more fan now. Lovely people!

 

[yaco]

Which is a totally fair point to make but Edwards still had to finish those stages in between, not lose time etc to be in this position for the ITT, which we already knew would be a decider stage, but ergo Vanpachtenbeke was still leading the race till today.

When you have a 31km ITT in a stage race where there is little elevation game then you have an unbalanced parcours. Then when you give the break with Edwards 2 1/2 minutes in stage one, then the race is over.

 

[RedheadDane]

When you have a 31km ITT in a stage race where there is little elevation game then you have an unbalanced parcours. Then when you give the break with Edwards 2 1/2 minutes in stage one, then the race is over.

My post was based on the info I had...
The info I had was that Vanpachtenbeke had the lead after stage 1, and Edwards took it after the ITT yesterday.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yea, the longer TT might not have been so out there in the 2016 edition which basically just cloned the then-current final stages of the men's Tour de Pologne, around Bukowina Tatrzańska and Zakopane, but on this parcours it's a bizarre imbalance.

At the same time there really aren't enough ITTs on the calendar, and too many TTTs, for the women, so a race or two that give the rouleuses something isn't all that bad a thing, it's just not so great for the spectacle.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yea, the longer TT might not have been so out there in the 2016 edition which basically just cloned the then-current final stages of the men's Tour de Pologne, around Bukowina Tatrzańska and Zakopane, but on this parcours it's a bizarre imbalance.

At the same time there really aren't enough ITTs on the calendar, and too many TTTs, for the women, so a race or two that give the rouleuses something isn't all that bad a thing, it's just not so great for the spectacle.

The stage in Thüringen copied a stage in the Men's Pologne?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Marty MacDonald: "every time the road has gone uphill in the last six days, Kasia Niewiadoma has tried to make a move".

Six days, Marty? Try six years.

 

[awavey]

Sandra Alonso takes the final stage win Lotto Thueringen

 

[RedheadDane]

And Lisa Van Heilvort Scarlett Souren won in Poland.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It was a nice move for her, especially as she has a pretty good fast finish herself so wouldn't have been the first rider I'd have expected to see soloing there from that group.