Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[yaco]

Markus was always a good chance to stay away when you consider the strength of that field.

 

[jmdirt]

Great to see Coryn win another stars and stripes kit!

 

[RedheadDane]

If someone has a stream for Antwerp, I will be very happy!

Looking at you @Samu Cuenca!
(Don't worry, I'm not actually looking at you.)










Or am I?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If someone has a stream for Antwerp, I will be very happy!

Looking at you @Samu Cuenca!
(Don't worry, I'm not actually looking at you.)










Or am I?

Well I am currently looking at a short, Danish, female redhead, but I'm pretty sure it's my 10 year old niece.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1792109507201409409

View: https://x.com/MatMitchell30/status/1792109507201409409

 

[RedheadDane]

And now we got graphics!

Around 100 Ks to go.

There appears to be a break of... around 10ish? riders, with some sort of gap.
Lotto and QS pulling in the peloton.

 

[RedheadDane]

We appear to have lost them...

 

[RedheadDane]

Lara Gillespie wins ahead of Zoe Backstedt and Sanne Cant.

 

[JR1012]

The broadcasting of stage 3 Vuelta a Burgos is so bad. No live images. They had similar issues in 2022. When do they learn from their mistakes?
On WT lvl this is not acceptable.

 

[RedheadDane]

The broadcasting of stage 3 Vuelta a Burgos is so bad. No live images. They had similar issues in 2022. When do they learn from their mistakes?
On WT lvl this is not acceptable.

They had images earlier, so probably just due to the weather.

 

[JR1012]

They had images earlier, so probably just due to the weather.

Sorry, but bad weather is no excuse for me. Bad weather can happen all the time. If you have trouble then to produce images because of the poor population then you should ask yourself if this reagion is suitable for a WT race.

We had other races where the weather is much worse and still get images.

 

[RedheadDane]

Sorry, but bad weather is no excuse for me. Bad weather can happen all the time. If you have trouble then to produce images because of the poor population then you should ask yourself if this reagion is suitable for a WT race.

We had other races where the weather is much worse and still get images.

And we have had much bigger races not able to make images either.

 

[JR1012]

But this happens now the second time (2022 and 2024). If a region has not a good telecommunication network and you can't produce images because of only rain, then in my opinion this region is not a good choice for a race.

 

[JR1012]

Finally live images again.

 

[ice&fire]

But this happens now the second time (2022 and 2024). If a region has not a good telecommunication network and you can't produce images because of only rain, then in my opinion this region is not a good choice for a race.

Not a problem of the telecom network, but windy/rainy weather preventing the airplanes that relay the signal to fly safely.

 

[RedheadDane]

No prize for guessing who won.

 

[ice&fire]

Vollering had a gap reported as just over 10s at the summit and extended it to 50s in the descent, the flat and the last uphill km.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Lara Gillespie (UAE Development) won in Antwerp, with Zoe Backstedt (Canyon SRAM) in 2nd and Sanne Cant (Felixstowe-Deceuninck) in 3rd.

I don’t think an Irish woman has ever won a 1.1 race before?

 

[awavey]

Teams for Tour of Britain Women announced, does seem alot of WWT teams are voting with their feet on it

Team SD Worx - Protime
Liv AlUla Jayco
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
Human Powered Health
AG Insurance - Soudal Team
Cofidis Women Team
Lifeplus Wahoo
Hess Cycling Team
Doltcini O'Shea
DAS - Hutchinson - Brother - UK
Alba Development Road Team
VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team
St Michel - Mavic - Auber93 WE
Torelli

 

[Izzyeviel]

Wiebes Versus Kool.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Anything Jumbo can do, FDJ-Suez can do better.... top four at Bretagne. Surely they're gonna resign Brown?

 

[RedheadDane]

1	BROWN Grace	FDJ - SUEZ	16	20		25.04,61	44.982
2	KRAAK Amber	FDJ - SUEZ	12	12		0.52,45	43.467
3	LE NET Marie	FDJ - SUEZ	8	7		1.00,81	43.234
4	VIGILIA Alessia	FDJ - SUEZ	6	5		1.11,21	42.949
5	DE JONG Thalita	Lotto Dstny Ladies	5	4		1.14,16	42.869
6	DIJKSTRA Anneke	VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team	4	3		1.26,26	42.543
7	DEMAY Coralie	FDJ - SUEZ	3	2		1.34,22	42.331
8	NORBERT RIBEROLLE Marion	Fenix-Deceuninck	2	1		1.38,57	42.216
9	BERTEAU Victoire	Cofidis Women Team				1.44,63	42.057
10	LUDWIG Hannah	Cofidis Women Team				1.45,53	42.034

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Anything Jumbo can do, FDJ-Suez can do better.... top four at Bretagne. Surely they're gonna resign Brown?

It seems to be up to her to decide. She is the best domestique they have and is of course also very much able to produce great results of her own. Unless they manage to sign Reusser, it will be a big loss if she leaves.

 

[RedheadDane]

Anything Jumbo can do, FDJ-Suez can do better.... top four at Bretagne. Surely they're gonna resign Brown?

Would be a bit harsh to resign her. Maybe re-sign her.
What a difference one little '-' can make.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Teams for Tour of Britain Women announced, does seem alot of WWT teams are voting with their feet on it

Team SD Worx - Protime
Liv AlUla Jayco
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
Human Powered Health
AG Insurance - Soudal Team
Cofidis Women Team
Lifeplus Wahoo
Hess Cycling Team
Doltcini O'Shea
DAS - Hutchinson - Brother - UK
Alba Development Road Team
VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team
St Michel - Mavic - Auber93 WE
Torelli

Yikes, definitely looks like a bit of a struggle to secure A-listers for them, although the SweetSpot era race was definitely struggling compared to earlier years towards the end too. It still at least had a strong roster of the top teams, whereas this looks like there's a significant lack of top end teams, though I guess Visma might have gone along if Henderson was healthy. Suspect the DSM team will be most of the British riders, although they might send Kool and Georgi as co-leaders I guess. No Canyon, Trek, Fenix, Visma, FDJ, Movistar or UAE is a lot of big teams to be missing though. Even EF, who I thought would be a lock, too.

 

[awavey]

Yikes, definitely looks like a bit of a struggle to secure A-listers for them, although the SweetSpot era race was definitely struggling compared to earlier years towards the end too. It still at least had a strong roster of the top teams, whereas this looks like there's a significant lack of top end teams, though I guess Visma might have gone along if Henderson was healthy. Suspect the DSM team will be most of the British riders, although they might send Kool and Georgi as co-leaders I guess. No Canyon, Trek, Fenix, Visma, FDJ, Movistar or UAE is a lot of big teams to be missing though. Even EF, who I thought would be a lock, too.

the thing is Canyon, Trek, Visma, UAE are taking part in Ride London, which isnt exactly the WWTs best race either, which makes it look even more like a snub for the ToBw., not exactly going to do the sponsor hunt or media coverage any favours, which was my concern for trying to rush it back like this. you end up with this race that just doesnt work properly and is actually harming the chances for the future of it.

I mean we're two days away from Ride London starting and theres barely any media coverage promoting the race is happening, even locally to Essex. Tv coverage is hidden away online again or on the Beebs digital channel, and yet its quite established as a thing.

the ToBw might get better name recognition and no doubt BC will push it to their media pals as some kind of preOlympic pact, but who's going to watch it ?

Im most surprised Trek arent taking part, given how effusive Lizzie D was about the importance of the race, I know shes almost contractually obliged by BC to say nice things about BC, but still I suppose theres enough time they could change their minds.