Prediction Game 2022 Women's Edition (De Amy Pieters Trofee)

[Põhja Konn]

GC: Koppenburg, Muzic
Stages: Bastianelli

 

[Samu Cuenca]

GC: Faulkner and Brand
Stage huntress: Balsamo

 

[Dk one]

Ugh, so they added Balsamo anyway. Would like to swap her in for stages if I am not too late.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Ugh, so they added Balsamo anyway. Would like to swap her in for stages if I am not too late.

Same for me.

 

[RedheadDane]

I am completely blank about who to pick...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ugh, so they added Balsamo anyway. Would like to swap her in for stages if I am not too late.

Same for me.

It's perfectly fine. It only means that I now can't have her anymore

My stage huntress will be Brennauer instead. Klein is another possibility for the IT, but Brennauer at least has a decent chance on more than the first stage, if she's found her legs again. Ivanchenko is a dark horse after her win in Bretagne, but that was in a worse field.

I would have liked to have had Sina Frei as one of my picks as well, but that felt too left field in the end.

I am completely blank about who to pick...

Random number generator is your friend!

 

[Gwbert]

GC: Rooijakers & Lippert. Stages: Bastianelli

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It's perfectly fine. It only means that I now can't have her anymore

My stage huntress will be Brennauer instead. Klein is another possibility for the IT, but Brennauer at least has a decent chance on more than the first stage, if she's found her legs again. Ivanchenko is a dark horse after her win in Bretagne, but that was in a worse field.

I would have liked to have had Sina Frei as one of my picks as well, but that felt too left field in the end.

Originally I had Klein as my stage pick, as she could contend a sprint in a slightly hilly stage as well as the ITT, and I had Neff as a GC pick, but I decided to gamble on Jolanda winning a mountain stage but not the GC. There's just not enough of a record of TTs for her and road TTs are quite specialised.

Was very tempted by Brand for the GC as well, but I picked on form in the end. Which is also kind of why I was looking at the original startlist and planning to go for Chabbey, since she was in form, unlikely to lead the GTs with Kasia in the team, and would have been motivated on home roads, but 'twas not to be.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Originally I had Klein as my stage pick, as she could contend a sprint in a slightly hilly stage as well as the ITT, and I had Neff as a GC pick, but I decided to gamble on Jolanda winning a mountain stage but not the GC. There's just not enough of a record of TTs for her and road TTs are quite specialised.

Was very tempted by Brand for the GC as well, but I picked on form in the end. Which is also kind of why I was looking at the original startlist and planning to go for Chabbey, since she was in form, unlikely to lead the GTs with Kasia in the team, and would have been motivated on home roads, but 'twas not to be.

Of course Klein also has a fine sprint in her, but the team will more likely be betting on Paladin, if stage 3 comes down to a sprint in a bigger group.

I hadn't realised how late they'll be riding the Vaduz crit race, but at least that should help a bit with the heat.

 

[RedheadDane]

GC: Muzic, Faulkner
Stages: Balsamo

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Some of us were quite unlucky, but not me, for a change

The Giro Donne begins next Thursday

Tour de Suisse
Samu: 5
RhD: 2.5
DKO: 1.5
JV: 1.5
Gwbert: 1
LS: 0.5
PK: 0.5
Yaco: 0

Standings after 12 of 19 races
@Dk one 30.5
@RedheadDane 30
@Põhja Konn 28.5
@Libertine Seguros 26.5
@Jumbo Visma Fan :) 23
@yaco 18.5
@Samu Cuenca 17
@Gwbert 16
@jaylew 9

 

[RedheadDane]

Let us not forget that the Giro starts in less than a week.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Let us not forget that the Giro starts in less than a week.

Less than three days, to be precise.

 

[yaco]

BEX named their team and 4 hrs later Sansesteban withdrawn from COVID. This could be a taste of things to come.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

My Giro Donne line up (I might make changes to it before the race starts tomorrow)

GC: Annemiek van Vleuten, Marta Cavalli and Kristen Faulkner
Stage huntress: Elisa Longo Borghini
QOM: Elise Chabbey
Points: Elisa Balsamo

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

GC- Annemiek Van Vlueten, Faulkner, Longo Borghini
Stage Huntress-Marianne Vos
QOM-Evita Muzic
Points-Balsamo

 

[yaco]

GC - AVV, Faulkner and Cavalli.
Stage Huntress ; Voss
QOM ; AVV
Points ; Balsamo

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Because of the risk of Covid influencing the race, I will allow you to replace any of your chosen riders, if they drop out at any point before the start of stage 4.

 

[Põhja Konn]

GC: Van Vleuten, Cavalli, Longo Borghini
Stages: Balsamo
QOM: Uttrup Ludwig
Points: Kopecky

 

[Gwbert]

GC: AVV, Cavalli & Longo Borghini
Stages: Balsamo
QOM: AVV
Points: Longo Borghini

 

[Dk one]

GC: Annemiek van Vleuten, Marta Cavalli and J. Labous
Stage: Balsamo
QOM: CUL
Points: Vos

 

[Libertine Seguros]

GC: Annemiek, Juliette and Marta C

Stage huntress: Emma Norsgaard

Points: Balsamo

GPM: Cille

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

So, I’m on vacation for a week, and I come back to see no standings update? Blasphemy

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So, I’m on vacation for a week, and I come back to see no standings update? Blasphemy

It'll be ready in time for the Tour... hopefully.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Giro Donne
DKO: 7.5
Gwbert: 7.5
PK: 7.5
Yaco: 7
JV: 5.5
LS: 5.5
RhD: 5
Samu: 5

Standings after 13 of 19 races
@Dk one 38
@Põhja Konn 36
@RedheadDane 35
@Libertine Seguros 32
@Jumbo Visma Fan :) 28.5
@yaco 15.5
@Gwbert 23.5
@Samu Cuenca 22
@jaylew 9