Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[awavey]

Sofa vibes...

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[awavey]

Seems like Hess cycling are going the way I think we expected

British team blocked from competing in key Spring Classics

Hess Cycling not invited to Amstel Gold Race

www.cyclingweekly.com

 

[jmdirt]

Congrats PFP!

 

[RedheadDane]

Congrats PFP!

Paris-Roubaix is hardly a lesser known race...

 

[jmdirt]

Pretty young though! Women's road racing in general is lesser know, right?

 

[JR1012]

Does anyone know when the next promotion for WT is?

The way EF Education-Oatly is racing they clearly should be WT status.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Does anyone know when the next promotion for WT is?

The way EF Education-Oatly is racing they clearly should be WT status.

They are in the final year of a two year cycle and EF will indeed be promoted. There's not really a big fight going on for the 15 WT spots at this point, but the battle for wildcards between Roland, Arkéa (if they survive), Cofidis, VolkerWessels and Laboral Kutxa is interesting.

 

[Didinho]

Letizia Paternoster not only riding Brabantse but also a debut in Amstel! Hope to see her on training in the next days.

 

[JR1012]

No Vollering for Brabantse, but prov. startlist with Vos and ELB.

 

[yaco]

Letizia Paternoster not only riding Brabantse but also a debut in Amstel! Hope to see her on training in the next days.

Think she will be a bit player as Liv Alula have better options for these races.

 

[Didinho]

Think she will be a bit player as Liv Alula have better options for these races.

With the crashes and less races untill now it’s good she can try it once. But the climbs in Amstel surely will be too hard/long for her.
Brabantse well within reach, with her growing form. Also with Vollering not on the startlist anymore it will be less of a climbing race, I hope she can have a big result Friday.

 

[yaco]

With the crashes and less races untill now it’s good she can try it once. But the climbs in Amstel surely will be too hard/long for her.
Brabantse well within reach, with her growing form. Also with Vollering not on the startlist anymore it will be less of a climbing race, I hope she can have a big result Friday.

Some chance in Brabantse.

 

[awavey]

All 4 stages of the Womens Tour of Britain stage start/finish locations announced

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[Didinho]

Saw the UAE team on their way back after the recon. Persico and Gasparrini could follow Longo on a hill, the Italian champion looked fine after the concussion. Love that jersey btw 😍

And Lidl Trek had done their recon and were waiting on their cars in the (little) rain.

A lot of teams were training around Gent, closer to the starting town.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

All 4 stages of the Womens Tour of Britain stage start/finish locations announced

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It's going to be brutal when the full stages are announced. Redcar and Saltburn are like, five kilometres apart and both could have some really interesting North Yorkshire Moors terrain leading into them (Saltburn also could have a mini-Hatta Dam type finish with a very short but very steep uphill run into the town from the seafront), so when they announce the usual "very challenging stage" with all the obstacles 60km from the line it'll be doubly upsetting.

I think there's a good chance however that the last stage will either be a circuit race or will finish on a circuit of at least an approximation of the recent World Championships course and that was really good for racing, so fingers crossed.

 

[Didinho]

Always nice to have a race close by. I’m gonna see them 6 times on 5 different places, if they let me through everywhere.

Let’s go Letizia!! And Cat.

Will be hard to beat Longo, Vos and/or Van der Breggen.

 

[Netserk]

Of the 4 chasers, it looks like only 3 of them are working to make the bridge.

They've now made it, but when only Fisher-Black pulled the front 3, it looked like they'd do so much quicker.

Situation at the moment:

 

[Netserk]

Two laps to go. The gap came down to 15" when Fenix chased, but they sat up on the S climb.

Nelson in between, she attacked from the peloton after Fenix sat up.

 

[Netserk]

FdJ push on the penultimate Moske. Some problem with the coverage.

They forced a selection with 9 riders, 3 from FdJ. Also Vos there. 10" behind the front 7.

 

[SafeBet]

Dd we just miss the most important move of the race so far?

 

[Netserk]

Dd we just miss the most important move of the race so far?

The more important move just now was at least covered.

 

[RedheadDane]

Seems Longo Borghini has recovered quite well...

 

[SafeBet]

Looks like we missed some entertaining cycling in both Flanders and Roubaix.

 

[Netserk]

Some of the weaker riders in front should drop back and help close the gap.

But looks like it will come back together without that.

 

[Netserk]

The chase group could apparently not cooperate, it seemed a moment ago that they would bridge. Now it's up to the peloton (led by SDW) to chase UAE down.