Ronde van Vlaanderen 2025, one day monument, April 6 (women's)

[Tim Cahill]

Come on Catrin just hold on, excellent ride for a 9 year old

 

[RedheadDane]

Come on Catrin just hold on, excellent ride for a 9 year old

Huh?
Feb 29 birthday?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van Dijk attacks again, but this time it wasn't followed by a Reusser scream.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Weird, I know Kopecky is riding in all white. But there seems to be a second rider wearing the rainbow jersey...
national sweater from Lithuania or something?

 

[awavey]

Weird, I know Kopecky is riding in all white. But there seems to be a second rider wearing the rainbow jersey...

Mauritius 🇲🇺

 

[KoopaCycling]

okay

 

[Didinho]

Lets go Letizia. Very good. Hang on. From the back to the front.

A bit too long. Good try. She missed a teammate to get her in better position.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Mauritius should sue the UCI and all rainbows.

Multiple riders were not positioned great ahead of the climb.

 

[Didinho]

Pieterse had a crash before. “Alpecin” bad luck today.

 

[awavey]

Surely with those 4 up the road g2 can't muck about chasing them down with 14km to go

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They look like the four strongest riders, but the three of them won't beat Kopecky in a sprint. She hasn't looked completely unbeatable so far though.

 

[Didinho]

Bring on the tactics now. They have to let Kopecky do al the chase after an attack.

Maybe G2 will come back if someone doesn’t pull in front.

 

[Didinho]

They look like the four strongest riders, but the three of them won't beat Kopecky in a sprint. She hasn't looked completely unbeatable so far though.

Aren’t Pauline and Liane not that slow? After such a race it’s not sure Lotte wins the sprint easily.
The headwind could also play a part.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Aren’t Pauline and Liane not that slow? After such a race it’s not sure Lotte wins the sprint easily.

PFP's sprint is of course still a bit of an enigma and Lippert isn't slow at all, but I can't really see them beat her unless she has a mechanical or they manage to make her work hard in the last 6 km.

 

[yaco]

Surely these three riders have to attack Kopecky and make her chase. You can't bring her to the line.

 

[KoopaCycling]

40 seconds ahead now, and no one trying get away, just rolling through with kopecky. It works for me, but with the current gap it seems bad tactics for everyone not named Kopecky.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hopefully, the Visma guys let Van Baarle have priority in the showers, so he'll have time to go cheer for PFP.

 

[Didinho]

They all think they’ll get on the podium it seems. Kopecky will control it out.

I’ve done 120km today. A lot of wind. You have got to have something left if you think to attack. Not that easy.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Kasia will probably attack, but unless Kopecky has already been forced to respond to previous attacks, she won't get much of a gap if any.

 

[Didinho]

They all want to attack as 2nd. First one will never get away. Come on Kasia give it a chance.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Whole lotta ****ing around going on, probably too late for anything really dramatic though

 

[awavey]

They all think they’ll get on the podium it seems. Kopecky will control it out.

I’ve done 120km today. A lot of wind. You have got to have something left if you think to attack. Not that easy.

Only managed 50km myself, that winds brutal though 15mph avg from the East...in the UK but Brugge is literally just across the water

 

[Andy262]

Kasia’s working very hard for her fourth place

 

[Leinster]

Is there more SRAM in the women’s peloton than the men’s? Just noticed that all the lead 4 seem to be on SRAM, no shimano.

 

[rghysens]

Surely someone must try?
Or are they all so confident in themselves?