Mara Abbott won stage 8 and is in Pink!! This is the historic climbers edition and stage 8 was a hard one. They climbed 5000 feet right from the gun, and then much more on three more climbs. Mara Abbott and Emma Pooley, the two greatest climbers in the world for women went free alone at 50km, and then Mara soloed the last 3km to the finish! I know everyone is watching the TDF, but this is the biggest race in the world for women coming ironically at the same time as the TDF. However, I think it's going to a fascinating stage tomorrow.
Emma and Mara are likely to go one on one, tooth and nail up the Stelvio. It's never been climbed before for the women and it's also I believe perhaps the single hardest stage in the history of the Giro. I think guys who don't normally pay the women much attention might be somewhat interested in this. The idea was to raise the pro women to a new level of professionalism, and they race clean, unlike the current state of men's cycling.
I think that's worthy of some admiration, plus they get paid so little for their hard work. Personally I just wish CN and Velonews spent more resources on this race, which it appears they don't spend a single penny on it. They get all their photos 2nd hand from CJ. It's a shame that none of 3 top British sites cover this race, but then Velonews doesn't do much either. However, there is good videos and photos coming from a lot of people who are doing it out of their own pocket for the fans. Rather then CN delete this post, they should come here and address the unfairness of not for once covering such an historic event like this for the women. The market value should be higher for this event, so I don’t understand their complete indifference to this race.
Photos from Manel Lacambra
http://tweetphoto.com/31636736
http://tweetphoto.com/31651579
http://tweetphoto.com/31651250
http://tweetphoto.com/31650955
http://tweetphoto.com/31648258
Emma and Mara are likely to go one on one, tooth and nail up the Stelvio. It's never been climbed before for the women and it's also I believe perhaps the single hardest stage in the history of the Giro. I think guys who don't normally pay the women much attention might be somewhat interested in this. The idea was to raise the pro women to a new level of professionalism, and they race clean, unlike the current state of men's cycling.
I think that's worthy of some admiration, plus they get paid so little for their hard work. Personally I just wish CN and Velonews spent more resources on this race, which it appears they don't spend a single penny on it. They get all their photos 2nd hand from CJ. It's a shame that none of 3 top British sites cover this race, but then Velonews doesn't do much either. However, there is good videos and photos coming from a lot of people who are doing it out of their own pocket for the fans. Rather then CN delete this post, they should come here and address the unfairness of not for once covering such an historic event like this for the women. The market value should be higher for this event, so I don’t understand their complete indifference to this race.
Photos from Manel Lacambra
http://tweetphoto.com/31636736
http://tweetphoto.com/31651579
http://tweetphoto.com/31651250
http://tweetphoto.com/31650955
http://tweetphoto.com/31648258