Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[Didinho]

Didn't saw this coming: Wiebes is on the startlist for the Track World Championship Scratch Race.

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She's gonna try and see how it goes/feels, with LA 2028 Olympics in mind.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Didn't saw this coming: Wiebes is on the startlist for the Track World Championship Scratch Race.

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Ah, the Lara Gut-Behrami of the cycling world.

Speaking of Wiebes, the 2024 Velo D'or nominees:
Brown, Kopecky (Lotte), Vollering, Kasia, Evita, Vos, ELB, Faulkner, Wiebes, & Rooijakkers,

One of these does not belong...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So Haidi can be a Chinese given name. Yuan means 'south', but it's a pinyin transcription so suggests she would be more northern at least in origin, which is a shame as Mandarin doesn't have 'Weng' as a possible syllable I think (Cantonese would, I believe, but then the name transcription would have been Wade-Giles or jutping, like we see with the Taiwanese and Hong Kong riders).

We could, however, get a Wen Haidi or Wang Haidi in future, which would be very cool. I would probably have to cheer for them.

Am I the only one that doesn't have a clue what any of this is about?

Is it skiers again?

 

[Sciatic]

To keep it in our sport and keep it simple, or perhaps more consfusing, Cat Ferguson was a top level slalom skier when she was younger.

And did you know Roglic used to be a ski jumper!

 

[Sciatic]

Nope.

Nope.

Only golf fans

 

[RedheadDane]

Aurela Nerlo trying to live up to her team's name.

She has 46 seconds with 16 Ks to go.

 

[RedheadDane]

Did Lach just outsprint her own teammate (and pressumably leader)?

She did.
Schweinberger 3rd.

Tour of Chongming Island 2024 Stage 2 results

Marta Lach is the winner of Tour of Chongming Island 2024 Stage 2, before Mylène de Zoete and Kathrin Schweinberger. was leader in GC.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[Didinho]

The track cyclists haven't seen Wiebes racing on the road I guess. Waiting on the sprint and riding everyone off her wheel in the last lap. (Track thread looks dead and she's a roadie).

 

[awavey]

Didn't saw this coming: Wiebes is on the startlist for the Track World Championship Scratch Race.

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And now world champion 🌈

 

[RedheadDane]

Rider with an awesome name solo in front in Chongming.

(Unfortunately, she's gonna get caught)

 

[RedheadDane]

WNT having some pretty good days.
Lach just took her second stage.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Rider with an awesome name solo in front in Chongming.

(Unfortunately, she's gonna get caught)

Anne Knijnenburg (Anne Rabbits?)

 

[RedheadDane]

Anne Knijnenburg (Anne Rabbits?)

Yes.
However, my limited - non-existant - knowledge of Dutch tells me 'Knijnenburg' does not, in fact, mean 'Rabbits'. Either way; it's the first name that's awesome.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Anne is awesome? (the name, not people called Anne)

 

[RedheadDane]

Anne is awesome? (the name, not people called Anne)

Of course it is.

I'm not biased.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Vuelta a Costa Rica starts today, and it's definitely one for the Delphine Claudels and Sophia Lauklis of the cycling world, with a mountaintop finish at La Georgina, the last town before the Cerro de la Muerte. Climbing it from the Pérez Zeledón side!!! This is one of the most brutal climbs in world cycling outside of the elite level, averaging 6% for a body-sapping 38km (the Cerro is around 45km averaging just below 6% for the record). It's going to be a win-the-climb, win-the-race kind of competition, the first stage is flat and the second is gradually sauntering uphill, never reaching severe gradients.

It's largely a domestic péloton but there are teams from Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador participating. No Lilibeth or many of those like Peñuela, Estefania Herrera or Sanabria, even though BMC-Patobike are here, but the other stars of the LatAm péloton are all present and correct, such as Karen Villamizar, Marcela Prieto, Jazmin Soto, Esther Galarza and home favourite Milagro Mena.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Of course it is.

I'm not biased.

RedheadD_Anne ?

 

[Izzyeviel]

How my team finished up. 31st out of 244. If I had kept one of Kasia or Vos, I'd have been 2nd.

The top ten riders overall
Kopecky - 5716 (4386 last season/ on 75 teams_
Vollering - 4790 (5176/42
Borghini - 4613 (1235/10
Wiebes - 3130 (2567/11
Vos -2726 (816/11
Kasia - 2400 (2265/89
Labous (on 22 teams
Balsamo - 2126 (1250/32
Evita - on 38 teams
Van Anrooji -1600 (1513/63

Riders with the biggest drops in scores who weren't injured - Realini - 969 down from 1697, Lippert - 1084 from 2180, Moolman - 435 from 1720, Persico - 945 from 2147, & of course Ricarda Baurenfeind.

Big shout out to Kristen Faulkner who went from 10 points to 945 & the seven people who picked her.

If anyones interested in more details click here

 

[Libertine Seguros]

How my team finished up. 31st out of 244. If I had kept one of Kasia or Vos, I'd have been 2nd.

The top ten riders overall
Kopecky - 5716 (4386 last season/ on 75 teams_
Vollering - 4790 (5176/42
Borghini - 4613 (1235/10
Wiebes - 3130 (2567/11
Vos -2726 (816/11
Kasia - 2400 (2265/89
Labous (on 22 teams
Balsamo - 2126 (1250/32
Evita - on 38 teams
Van Anrooji -1600 (1513/63

Riders with the biggest drops in scores who weren't injured - Realini - 969 down from 1697, Lippert - 1084 from 2180, Moolman - 435 from 1720, Persico - 945 from 2147, & of course Ricarda Baurenfeind.

Big shout out to Kristen Faulkner who went from 10 points to 945 & the seven people who picked her.

If anyones interested in more details click here

Afraid that's not really fair, as although she didn't miss time once she started racing, Liane was injured during the offseason, and so she didn't race until the end of April, thus missing out on a huge chunk of races that would be among her season goals, she's had podiums at Brabantse Pijl multiple times, plus Amstel Gold and Flèche, and copious top 10s across races in Classics season she didn't get to compete this year.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Afraid that's not really fair, as although she didn't miss time once she started racing, Liane was injured during the offseason, and so she didn't race until the end of April, thus missing out on a huge chunk of races that would be among her season goals, she's had podiums at Brabantse Pijl multiple times, plus Amstel Gold and Flèche, and copious top 10s across races in Classics season she didn't get to compete this year.

And Bauernfeind missed the second half of the season due to a knee injury, AMP missed the Vuelta due to illness and the Tour due to injury, and Realini crashed out of the Vuelta.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Well that explains few things.

 

[awavey]

Canyon SRAM have a new co title sponsor, a Polish crypto currency exchange called zondacrypto, so they'll become Canyon SRAM zondacrypto.

Not sure what I make of crypto currency sponsors in bike racing yet

 

[RedheadDane]

Canyon SRAM have a new co title sponsor, a Polish crypto currency exchange called zondacrypto, so they'll become Canyon SRAM zondacrypto.

Not sure what I make of crypto currency sponsors in bike racing yet

I wooonder how they got in contact with a Polish sponsor:

Spoiler: Secret.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Turns out they taught her to play piano in one day

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Turns out they taught her to play piano in one day

She's already receiving better coaching then, considering Van der Breggen has had 4 years to teach her how to play