Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2024, February 24, one-day classic (women's)

[Lequack]

Notable mentions: Vollering, Kopecky, Reussser, Wiebes, Ludwig, Niewiadoma, Persico, Consonni, Balsamo, Longho Borghini

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad WE 2024

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Startlist for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad WE 2024

Competing teams and riders for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad WE 2024. Top competitors are Marianne Vos, Elisa Longo Borghini and Katarzyna Niewiadoma.

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[Lequack]

Puck is also riding

https://twitter.com/x/status/1759222279945249000

View: https://twitter.com/TonkeBerg/status/1759222279945249000

 

[Lequack]

Realistically there is a 90% chance SD Worx will win this by brute force, just depends on who, obviously Kopecky with her UAE performance is the big favorite.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Lots of comments about strength of Visma in the men's race, they look weak in comparison to SD.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Reusser is out with a virus, so SDW are at least weaker than they could have been.

Vos and Georgi are my top outsiders right now. It'll also be interesting to see how Fenix-Deceuninck will get on with the duo of Christina Schweinberger and Puck Pieterse, who set a new Coll de Rates Strava record (much less contested than the men's one though) earlier this week.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Balsamo, Uttrup and Niewiadoma look like the biggest opponents, but most likely SD Worx can choose which of them wins.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Break with 5mins+ after 80km

De Groot (142)
Colje (152)
Magalhaes (163)
Gafinovitz (192)
Meert (224)

 

[Didinho]

5min seems a lot. All against SD-Worx? Bring on the lives please.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

No reason to do The Predictor if everyone picks the same rider.

 

[Didinho]

Gap 3' now, looks better. The final can begin.

 

[Didinho]

Consonni down, there goes my favorite Hope she's fine for the coming races/month in Belgium.

Edit: she DNF.

 

[Dk one]

Crash after crash..

 

[Samu Cuenca]

These crashes have really destroyed the peloton. A solid attack by Longo Borghini, which at least means that SDW have to work a bit.

 

[ManicJack]

Who is the announcer on FloBikes?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It didn't take much for Kopecky to splinter the group. Vos looks good.

 

[Didinho]

Good to see Puck racing hard again.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Balsamo, Uttrup and Niewiadoma look like the biggest opponents, but most likely SD Worx can choose which of them wins.

It depends. If they decided against Kopecky but Kopecky decided she really wanted to win I'm not sure there's much they could do about it on the form she's on.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Good to see Puck racing hard again.

However this isn't CX, so trying to push the pace with three SDW riders in her wheel isn't the way to go.

De Jong continues to impress.

 

[Didinho]

However this isn't CX, so trying to push the pace with three SDW riders in her wheel isn't the way to go.

De Jong continues to impress.

Yeah but if she's feeling good she wants to the front. Hasn't raced much on the road, she's still young and too eager to race. But I like it. Hope she can follow on the Muur.

De Jong really strong indeed!

Shirin breaking the tempo for Elisa.

 

[Dk one]

PP, don’t do the work for sdw!

 

[Didinho]

SD Worx riding as a team, a first for everything. Wiebes must be feeling strong.

They all 3 are riding now, share the worload and go hammer on the Muur.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

PP, don’t do the work for sdw!

To be fair, if she didn't, someone like Kasia would probably do it instead, since working herself to the bone to no particular end is one of her specialities.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

To be fair, if she didn't, someone like Kasia would probably do it instead, since working herself to the bone to no particular end is one of her specialities.

Surely Kasia's legs will begin to itch soon if she doesn't pull or attack.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Surely Kasia's legs will begin to itch soon if she doesn't pull or attack.

She wants the road to go uphill for that because that's when she is commanded by scripture to attack. We'll see if Lotte and Lorena block the road with "mechanicals" on Kapelmuur to stop it like it's Koppenberg last year

 

[Didinho]

Vos looking good!