Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[yaco]

Gigante out for around six months with the iliac injury. Disappointing because she had a sneakily good year in 2024. Managed to settle into Europe and rode a full calendar. Should have finished 4th or 5th in the TDF if she could learn to descend. And she would have a better calendar in 2025, as her 2024 calendar left a bit to be desired.

 

[awavey]

Arguably a media piece that is making a mountain out of a molehill for clicks, but interesting that Lotte says she got along fine with Demi.

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...y-hits-back-at-former-teammate-demi-vollering

 

[Didinho]

Letizia Paternoster had a nasty downhill crash in training today. A lot of bruises on her face, around the clavicle and her wrist looks double the size.
Left training camp in Calpe. Another checkup in Italy will give us better info. Hope she’s relatively okay.

 

[yaco]

Letizia Paternoster had a nasty downhill crash in training today. A lot of bruises on her face, around the clavicle and her wrist looks double the size.
Left training camp in Calpe. Another checkup in Italy will give us better info. Hope she’s relatively okay.

Lets hope she os OK because Liv Alula has an ordinary squad for 2025.

 

[Izzyeviel]

For one glorious minute I thought AVV was returning with Alpecin to mess with AVDB & Vollering again.

 

[Didinho]

Letizia back on the bike 8 days after the crash. Good to have her back already.

 

[awavey]

Tour down under starts early hours of the morning tomorrow for us Europeans, think it's 1.49am ish CET kickstarting the WWT season

Discovery+ allegedly have coverage but with their diet of tennis & snooker at the moment it will be app only streams and prob no highlights on the channels 🙄

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[Samu Cuenca]

Tour down under starts early hours of the morning tomorrow for us Europeans, think it's 1.49am ish CET kickstarting the WWT season

Discovery+ allegedly have coverage but with their diet of tennis & snooker at the moment it will be app only streams and prob no highlights on the channels 🙄

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At this point, I'm not sure the race will be broadcast in Denmark at all. That obviously doesn't mean I won't be able to watch it, but it's on at a time where it's too late to stay up for and too early (for me) to wake up for it.

The route it pretty good though. We'll see them climb Willunga Hill twice for the first time, which could shake things up. That probably also means that Gigante's record time isn't in any danger (it might not have been anyway), but it's a shame that she is yet again unable to race.


BTW, there's still about 10 hours left until I'll stop updating my spreadsheet for my Emerging Female Riders game, so if anyone reading this thread is able to think of 16 eligible riders, why not give it a go?

Samu's 2025 Emerging Female Riders CQ Game (The Muriel Furrer Trophy)

I'm happy to officially launch the second edition of my emerging female riders game. Like in the first edition, the game will only last for one season. The primary reason for that is that I don't want to be running multiple games simultaneously. Rules The average team size for women's...

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