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Milano-Sanremo Donne 2025, first edition of women's race, March 22

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One of the issues on the Poggio was that Cille's pace simply wasn't hard enough (although still her best performance this year) and it even led to Labous getting tired of waiting for Kasia to attack. I had thought Demi would be ready to counter immediately, but that didn't really work out.

Sometimes it can be hard to know what to expect from women's races, cause smaller climbs can create big differences one day, but nothing on another.
 
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You just don't like the fact Wiebes won. That's it. The final was just as exciting as most Sanremo finals for the men. A race Mark Cavendish has won, remember.
2009 men's cycling might as well be a different planet than current men's cycling, for the better in the case of Sanremo.

And no, my issue here is not with Wiebes individually, but with the fact that this race failed to capture the same dynamism the men's race has fairly consistently had since 2017. The fastest sprinter in the peloton winning without ever being on the absolute limit is merely a symptom of that.
 
One of the issues on the Poggio was that Cille's pace simply wasn't hard enough (although still her best performance this year) and it even led to Labous getting tired of waiting for Kasia to attack. I had thought Demi would be ready to counter immediately, but that didn't really work out.

Sometimes it can be hard to know what to expect from women's races, cause smaller climbs can create big differences one day, but nothing on another.
I think generally climbs are more selective, but women are also less explosive, so unless they can drop each other clean off the wheel with a high tempo they can struggle getting a gap. And even Pog struggles to get a gap on the Poggio cause it's a short 7% section you're launching into at 45kph.

IMO it should be way more possible for the women to attack early on the Poggio and use the congestion in the hairpins and changes of wind direction.

But th biggest issue is simply Kopecky and Wiebes being on the same team.
 
I think generally climbs are more selective, but women are also less explosive, so unless they can drop each other clean off the wheel with a high tempo they can struggle getting a gap. And even Pog struggles to get a gap on the Poggio cause it's a short 7% section you're launching into at 45kph.

IMO it should be way more possible for the women to attack early on the Poggio and use the congestion in the hairpins and changes of wind direction.

But th biggest issue is simply Kopecky and Wiebes being on the same team.

Wiebes being a stronger climber than she used to be also makes a big difference here. Ok, she might not have been pushed to the max on Poggio, but there were still other riders that could potentially have made it that didn't.
 
Nah DE's main gripe is race distance. And I think it's fair to think that Sanremo Donne should be the longest race on the women's calendar. I think it should too

I just disagree distance is the reason for the disappointing outcome we got today.
Fwiw I don't think distance is the sole reason for the disappointing race, it definitely also is true that the obvious puncheuses didn't do the job they were supposed to (Vollering first attacking. 100m from the summit, really?). But Poggio also simply would have hit harder if it came farther into a race than any woman has ever had to go

Oh, and it also didn't help that the pace between Cipressa and Poggio was so much slower than what we're used to seeing in the men's race, that allowed for more recuperation. This would be the first place I would change my tactics next year if I wasn't riding for a sprint, but the women's peloton has never been exactly renowned for setting a strong pace when it's required...
 
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One of the issues on the Poggio was that Cille's pace simply wasn't hard enough (although still her best performance this year) and it even led to Labous getting tired of waiting for Kasia to attack. I had thought Demi would be ready to counter immediately, but that didn't really work out.

Sometimes it can be hard to know what to expect from women's races, cause smaller climbs can create big differences one day, but nothing on another.
Yes, CUL looked to have okay legs for the first time this season, so my cq ranking team is mad she had to pace for a not 100% Kasia, who is also on my team:(
 
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