Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

Page 170 - Get up to date with the latest news, scores & standings from the Cycling News Community.
Jun 19, 2023
477
328
2,980
Does anyone know when the next promotion for WT is?

The way EF Education-Oatly is racing they clearly should be WT status.
 
Sep 26, 2020
25,345
27,853
23,180
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.
 
  • Like
Reactions: JR1012
Jan 10, 2019
6,679
9,911
18,180
Letizia Paternoster not only riding Brabantse but also a debut in Amstel! Hope to see her on training in the next days.
 
Jan 10, 2019
6,679
9,911
18,180
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.
 
Jun 20, 2015
15,361
6,025
28,180
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.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Didinho
Jan 10, 2019
6,679
9,911
18,180
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.
 
Feb 20, 2010
33,064
15,272
28,180
All 4 stages of the Womens Tour of Britain stage start/finish locations announced

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIgpHEQs4BL/
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.
 
Apr 30, 2011
47,149
29,781
28,180
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:
8f6WueF.jpeg
 
Apr 30, 2011
47,149
29,781
28,180
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.
 
Apr 30, 2011
47,149
29,781
28,180
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.
 
Apr 30, 2011
47,149
29,781
28,180
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.
 
Apr 30, 2011
47,149
29,781
28,180
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.