Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes, but you keep assuming everyone here knows who Marit *** Bjørgen is.

The rest of us don't going around comparing well-known cyclists to random-ass people from other sports.
I don't even assume everyone around here knows who Ellen Klinge or Tusnelda Svanholmer are, even though they are in fact cyclists.

Just... stop. It was lame first time you did it, it's still lame the millionth time you're doing it.

And how many gags based on pedantry relating to other users' typos have you made in the decade-plus years you've been on the forum? It's just part of our respective senses of humour. Skiing's a fairly popular sport on the board. There's a very active thread on it in both the Cafe and the Clinic. While many will not, a lot of people who post on the board know exactly what I mean when I make that joke. They may or may not find it funny, and they may or may not have found it funny at first and then grown tired of it (it wouldn't be the first time I've beaten a dead horse of a punchline), but they get it. That's the thing with jokes, sometimes they hit, sometimes they don't, and the thing with jokes relying on references is that some will get them, and some will not. What amuses us will differ from person to person, and given we're not professional comedians (or very few of us will be, in case there are any professional comedians posting on the boards), there's always going to be some swings and misses.

I mean, enough people have memed on the "LS has a reference for everything, usually from some obscure Portuguese race in the 2000s or biathlon" for that to be a forum running gag in and of itself by now.

 

[RedheadDane]

And those gags are referring to stuff on this forum. Just like the gag that I'm supposedly bad at math (I'm not).
I mean, do you go around on the skiing forum I'm sure you frequent constantly calling Bjørgen "Kopecky"? Of course you don't, because you understand that not everyone on a skiing forum knows about cycling.
Not to mention the fact that since I'm pretty sure you're neither Danish nor Norwegian, you're literally making it harder for yourself by having to do the keyboard combo thing to write 'ø'.

But let's return to talking about the actually interesting sport.
It'll be interesting to see how well-known famous cyclist, Lotte Kopecky, will do today. Will she be able to help her teammate Lorena Wiebes snatch the GC?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

That's kind of what I was talking about in the first place before you got a bee in your bonnet about what kind of humour is allowed to be posted on the forum.

 

[Didinho]

When you see teams with 5 riders on the podium and think “wow they have a lot of riders here”. But it’s just that most of them are only 2 or 3 riders. Or Team Backstedt.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Not the best situation to pick for your first stab at leading a race, you have no team left, you're not a good sprinter and you are up against four of the top sprinters in the women's tour .

 

[Libertine Seguros]

With no proper Limburg stage and only a fairly tame Veluwezoom stage, and such a strong sprint field, it was going to be tough preventing it from being a bonus second fiesta from the word go, let alone once the race leader's team dropped away to nothing.

 

[RedheadDane]

Not the best situation to pick for your first stab at leading a race, you have no team left, you're not a good sprinter and you are up against four of the top sprinters in the women's tour .

I suppose her best bet is hoping she has enough of a buffer from the ITT, and that the sprinters share the bonus seconds between them.
Would of course require that Kopecky rides 100% in service of Wiebes.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I can understand why SDW have one rider in the front group, but 2 is maybe a bit overkill if they also want it to be brought it back.

 

[RedheadDane]

Guarishi takes it.

However, I'm more invested in the GC.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Wollaston started her sprint too early, but almost won anyway.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Peleton ~0:37

 

[yaco]

The peleton were never going to bring back the break in the last 15kms. Some teams will be disappointed because it has stuffed up their GC.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

GC

 

[Andy262]

Gutted for Zoe. Deserved better from her team.

 

[Izzyeviel]

shame her GC hopes went downhill quicker than Chemmy Alcott..

 

[yaco]

Gutted for Zoe. Deserved better from her team.

She has no team. She's been a sole rider since stage 3.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

She has no team. She's been a sole rider since stage 3.

Which is not half bad.
Her dad is her team!

 

[Izzyeviel]

Moolman-Pasio showing Pogacar how its done; african continetal champ by 7 minutes & 21 seconds. in what appears to be her last race

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Moolman-Pasio showing Pogacar how its done; african continetal champ by 7 minutes & 21 seconds. in what appears to be her last race

Last I heard, she was still expected to continue for another year, but it hasn't been confirmed yet.

 

[JR1012]

Wiebes takes it on a boring stage.
Kopecky and Kool with a heavy crash just before the finish. Hopefully both are ok.

Also because Kopecky wants to race the Track WC.

 

[Didinho]

 

[Izzyeviel]

Last I heard, she was still expected to continue for another year, but it hasn't been confirmed yet.

well shes retiring according to procyclingstats.. hoping your right

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Wiebes takes it on a boring stage.

TBF that is kind of the modus operandi.

This has been a very disappointing route. I know that the Netherlands kinda hampers what you can do, but they usually have at least one proper Veluwezoom and/or Limburg stage, and the weather hasn't really played ball this edition either which hasn't helped.

 

[awavey]

well shes retiring according to procyclingstats.. hoping your right

I thought I'd read somewhere she was doing another year, but I don't know, arguably she retired before came back, but this year hasn't been spectacular, but then why do nationals ? when you know winning & retiring means the jersey never gets seen on the road next season.

 

[RedheadDane]

Olympic and World Champion, Grace Brown, is currently racing - and leading - her last ITT.