Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[Samu Cuenca]

Lippert is sick today and hasn't started the final stage. That's a bummer after she had put herself in a great position yesterday.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

With Vollering taking KOM points on Jaizkibel and Bredewold only adding one additional second to her lead before Mendizorrotz (it's now 20 seconds), it looks like Demi might be going home with multiple jerseys. Sara Martín is the virtual leader, but that won't last much longer.

The blue youth jersey is a pretty heated affair with 13 riders separated by 2 seconds (I'm not sure if they are all in the group though).

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Niedermaier gave it a great shot, but the elastic eventually snapped. Bredewold was only able to hang on to García's earlier attack.

 

[RedheadDane]

FDJ has found a brilliant way to break SD Worx domination:

Sign the person who won 2 of the first 3 editions.

 

[JR1012]

FDJ has found a brilliant way to break SD Worx domination:

Sign the person who won 2 of the first 3 editions.

Still 11 out of 12 stage wins.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Wow, I did not expect Van Dam to keep her streak going today. If she isn't staying at Ceratizit (if the team even exists next year) she should be getting plenty of offers.

Win no. 51 and 52 for Demi, which puts her ahead of ELB and Kopecky. There's still some way to 100, but it's not impossible that she'll be over 60 at the end of this year.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Kate Richardson wins the Tour de Feminin in Czechia. Nice to see a Hess survivor have success.

 

[RedheadDane]

Question:
Why couldn't they have Emakumeen tomorrow, and of course with an easy available stream? Don't they know tomorrow's a rest day in the Giro?
Are we all supposed to just... have a whole day without watching cycling?

 

[Izzyeviel]

Make sure you watch Emakumeen - its your chance to see Team Farto in action. I presume they made the calculation that people would rather a race than rubbish cyclists cycling on their own.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Question:
Why couldn't they have Emakumeen tomorrow, and of course with an easy available stream? Don't they know tomorrow's a rest day in the Giro?
Are we all supposed to just... have a whole day without watching cycling?

You should rather call it Durango or Durango-Durango, as Emakumeen just means women's.

 

[RedheadDane]

You should rather call it Durango or Durango-Durango, as Emakumeen just means women's.

I specifically did not want to call it Durango, because... isn't that a town in Colorado?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I specifically did not want to call it Durango, because... isn't that a town in Colorado?

Durango in Colorado got its name from Durango in Mexico which in turn is named after the Basque Durango where this race takes place.

 

[RedheadDane]

Durango in Colorado got its name from Durango in Mexico which in turn is named after the Basque Durango where this race takes place.

Ah, so:

Basque: Durango
Mexico: Durango Durango
Colorado: Durango Durango Durango

Anyway; my point still stands!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ah, so:

Basque: Durango
Mexico: Durango Durango
Colorado: Durango Durango Durango

Anyway; my point still stands!

I still don't really understand the reasoning.

 

[RedheadDane]

I still don't really understand the reasoning.

To avoid a cycling-less day!
Do they - UCI, or the organisers - expect us to go a whole day without cycling? That's cruel!

 

[Izzyeviel]

How do you cope in the off season? I thought I had it bad...

 

[RedheadDane]

How do you cope in the off season? I thought I had it bad...

Have you considered, that maybe I just go crazy?

I also watch CX, so that helps.

 

[JR1012]

Could it finally happen that we see the first battle in the high mountains of Kopecky vs Vollering in Burgos?Kopecky already confirmed. Altough the final climb on stage 3 might be a little too steep for Kopecky.

But a good test, with stage 3 finish and a TT, where she stands against the likes of Vollering and Reusser.

 

[awavey]

Could it finally happen that we see the first battle in the high mountains of Kopecky vs Vollering in Burgos?Kopecky already confirmed. Altough the final climb on stage 3 might be a little too steep for Kopecky.

But a good test, with stage 3 finish and a TT, where she stands against the likes of Vollering and Reusser.

Vollering went back to Switzerland, she could come back I guess in time, but not ideal prep, I think she'll skip this.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Ah, so:

Basque: Durango
Mexico: Durango Durango
Colorado: Durango Durango Durango

Anyway; my point still stands!

So do you call the race in March "Trofeo", because Alfredo Binda was a rider, not a race?

 

[RedheadDane]

So do you call the race in March "Trofeo", because Alfredo Binda was a rider, not a race?

Noooo... because that has nothing to do with why it - initially - felt weird to refer to the race as 'Durango'.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Noooo... because that has nothing to do with why it - initially - felt weird to refer to the race as 'Durango'.

But why does it feel weird to call a race "Durango"?

I mean, we have "Roubaix", "Sanremo", "San Sebastián", "Liège" and so on where just mentioning the end destination of the race is enough for fans to identify it.

I know Basque is not the most commonly-spoken language or anything but it's certainly more redundant to name a race "Women" in a thread where ostensibly every race should be for women, than to name a race "Durango" because there are two other cities named Durango (both of which took their name ultimately from this Durango). "Saria" ("Trophy") would have been a bit more reasonable, if for no other reason than that before the Itzulia organisers stepped up, Emakumeen Saria was a one-day race appended to the Emakumeen Bira stage race, so "Emakumeen" would not have sufficed to identify it.

For example, there are seven places in the USA alone called Philadelphia, but the Philadelphia International Criterium didn't get called "International" or "Criterium" because most of the fans could figure out which Philadelphia it was. REM were formed in Athens, but nobody thinks they're a Greek band. Barcelona play in the Ecuadorian league, but nobody is under any illusion that Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal, Ferrán Torres et al are rocking up when they buy tickets. There are hundreds of New World cities named after Old World cities, many of which have outgrown their namesakes in size or fame - New York, New Orleans, Guadalajara - and many have not (the 2014 Vuelta a Colombia featured a stage starting in Madrid, and there have been dozens of Vuelta a Venezuela stages in Valencia).

Now, if there was a women's race which took place in Durango, CO, then I can anticipate we'd need some way of differentiating the Basque Durango from the American Durango in nomenclature, but until that's the case we can just call the race 'Durango' or 'Durango-Durango' without too much confusion.

 

[RedheadDane]

But why does it feel weird to call a race "Durango"?

Because - as I clearly wrote - I thought it was specifically a town in Colorado. As in only a town in Colorado.

Basically, I was looking at the name thinking:
"Well, I don't know what 'durango' means, but it'd be weird to call it that, given that that's also the name of a town in Colorado."

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Vollering went back to Switzerland, she could come back I guess in time, but not ideal prep, I think she'll skip this.

She did also travel home in-between the Vuelta and Itzulia, but there was a six day gap there and only four days this time.