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

[Samu Cuenca]

Letizia Borghesi continues to impress, while her sister ended up in a Van Dam sandwich a lot further back.

 

[awavey]

Didn't the women finish after the men at San Remo ??

And so we don't get to see the podium then...sigh

 

[Lequack]

A lot of current and former world champs

 

[RedheadDane]

Didn't the women finish after the men at San Remo ??

And so we don't get to see the podium then...sigh

Did your coverage end before the podium ceremonies?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A lot of current and former world champs

Lippert has been Jr. EC champion on the road, so the joke's on the rest of them...

 

[Pantani_lives]

SD Worx was always the favorite, with Kopecky as their main card to play. It's a pity that some of the favorites had crashes, but we still saw a good final. Kopecky didn't try to go alone, seemed to be confident in her sprint in a small group. She was the favorite, but it's never a given after a long race under pressure.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The top 4 from that group finished in an absolute inverse of my order of preference for how they should finish.

I don't think there's any means by which that would have been possible without Kopecky puncturing in the final kilometre or something, though.

And we are back to the classic "SD Worx don't work for each other, but it's ok because everybody else works for SD Worx" problem.

 

[Lequack]

Consussion for Elisa. Hopefully it's not that serious.

 

[RedheadDane]

Doesn't bode well for Saturday...

 

[awavey]

Did your coverage end before the podium ceremonies?

yes, we got them all in the green room, and then we went mountain biking in Brazil instead, and that was on both channels they were covering the end of the womens race with too.

 

[RedheadDane]

yes, we got them all in the green room, and then we went mountain biking in Brazil instead, and that was on both channels they were covering the end of the womens race with too.

You have my permission to go poke someone with a stick!

 

[Wyndbrook]

A lot of current and former world champs

And Pog only comes fourth equal this time.

 

[yaco]

I was impressed with Paternoster who went hard on the Kwaremont to get in the final 4 and exploded in the last 500 metres. She could have ridden conservatively and finished in the group sprinting for 5th BUT she tried to win the race. Kudos to Paternoster.

 

[Lequack]

Some pics

https://twitter.com/x/status/1909267615865798912

View: https://x.com/UAETeamADQ/status/1909267615865798912

 

[Didinho]

I was impressed with Paternoster who went hard on the Kwaremont to get in the final 4 and exploded in the last 500 metres. She could have ridden conservatively and finished in the group sprinting for 5th BUT she tried to win the race. Kudos to Paternoster.

She gave everything on the Kwaremont and found her limit. All or nothing. Without Kopecky’s acceleration she made the final cut and was racing for the first places. After all the crashes I’m happy she’s at a strong level again. She seemed stronger on the climbs than last years. A shame she was just behind the G2 group. Her endurance will get better the next years. Just hoping for a healthy pre-season for once. And do something in the Giro and/or Tour this year.

On PCS she’s on the startlist for Brabantse Pijl. Could be a good result there in this form. I’ll be riding there every day in the week of the race. Hope to see her already. And go watch the race live. Finally close to home.

 

[JR1012]

Some pics

https://twitter.com/x/status/1909267615865798912

View: https://x.com/UAETeamADQ/status/1909267615865798912

That means she is probably out for Roubaix. 😞

 

[RedheadDane]

That means she is probably out for Roubaix. 😞

They can just bring the mini version.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They can just bring the mini version.

She looks more like an actual sized model of Gaia Realini.