Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[RedheadDane]

It's all happening today. VolkerWessels and TeamUAEADQ have pulled out of next week's TourDe Suisse, so 18 teams to start

Any explanations as to why being provided?

 

[RedheadDane]

The chase group getting some human powered pulls.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Almost the worst possible outcome. Demi has to be the one who loses over two minutes to create any excitement. I hope Chabbey gets the win, but I wouldn't mind Santesteban pulling it off either.

 

[awavey]

Any explanations as to why being provided?

Well both are down to do the Hageland, which clashes date wise, Vw you might assume are down on riders availability & costs. UAE could have sent their development team to either, but maybe they see the Giro with ELB as their TdFF prep, not the TDS

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Well both are down to do the Hageland, which clashes date wise, Vw you might assume are down on riders availability & costs. UAE could have sent their development team to either, but maybe they see the Giro with ELB as their TdFF prep, not the TDS

Suisse is a WWT race, so they wouldn't be able to sent the devo team.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The gap has come down slightly, if the GPS can be trusted, but they're obviously not gonna catch them.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Chabbey attacks and Santesteban can't close it. Demi should just bridge across.

 

[awavey]

Suisse is a WWT race, so they wouldn't be able to sent the devo team.

In which case send the Dev team to Belgium which isn't, they've got 19 riders on the books you'd think that would be enough to rotate through all the races.

So I can't really say why they've pulled out.

 

[awavey]

A nice 1-2 there

 

[Samu Cuenca]

4 years and a day since she beat Deignan in that sprint in Suisse and 4 years since she lost the race the next day.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Also Demi + a Swiss doctor seems like a perfect combo. Time will tell whether she's also gonna team up with Häberlin one day.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Mauri Vansevenant has found a female counterpart

Great to watch these two styles against each other, Roldan 100% suffering and o% efficiency vs. Markus seemingly the opposite.

I would be far from expert in such matters, but I have never seen anyone who looks more in need of a bike fitting since the Jumbo/Keystone Cops incident.

 

[awavey]

Stage 3 preview ToBW

Into Scotland and the Scottish Borders for the official Queen Stage of the race. 143.8km with 2125m of elevation gain, expect lots of camera shots of hairy coos to fill in for scenery

Reminder of the GC positions
1 Faulkner4:57:03
2. Markus +0:04
3. Wollaston +0:12

Faulkner also leads the points and QoM jersey rankings, though theyll switch to Le Court and Roldan in 2nd places respectively for the 3rd stage. Cat Ferguson still leads the Youth jersey rankings, still top Brit, and FDJ Suez take the lead of the team ranking.

Stage 3 coverage starts at 10:55 (BST) whilst the race actually starts at 11.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImEi_iVBMM

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Almost the worst possible outcome. Demi has to be the one who loses over two minutes to create any excitement. I hope Chabbey gets the win, but I wouldn't mind Santesteban pulling it off either.

Santesteban pulling it off when outnumbered two to one when she has very little explosivity and no sprint was sadly never going to happen, but given the climbing field in the race it could well have been that this trio would have settled the podium anyway.

 

[awavey]

Gladys Verhulst Wild medical update from the team following yesterday's crash at ToBW (note it wasn't the crash with Kim it was in the final part of the race but I don't think we saw it happen)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1931085973833613742

View: https://x.com/agsoudal/status/1931085973833613742

 

[TourOfSardinia]

-10k Vollering attacks on Molina

 

[Izzyeviel]

This is some proper english weather

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

This is some proper english weather

You know they're in Scotland, yeah?

 

[Izzyeviel]

You know they're in Scotland, yeah?

same thing

 

[JR1012]

Huge terrible crash.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Hero to zero

 

[JR1012]

FDJ attacking the crashed leader.

 

[Izzyeviel]

FDJ attacking the crashed leader.

Well the ceratizit rider attacked so they followed.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Le Court DNF, Roldan, DNF, Guarischi , DNF.

 

[JR1012]

Faulkner crashed again. This time, it is game over.