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The Women's Road Racing Thread 2017

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MartinGT said:
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Some of the number pinning on these women is amateurish!

I still struggle to understand why numbers are pinned on. They know the numbers well in advance and could get jerseys printed easily enough.

The mens have a sticky number, so why not for the women?

Because UCI/ASO...
 
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Van Vleuten goes. Strong looking attack.

Looking strong!

Longo Borghini struggling!

Unless Gillow or Deignan has something in reserve (and it doesn't look like it) or Van Vleuten blows up this is done and dusted.
 
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Yep, Brilliantly timed attack. Two big kicks (I think?) to drop everyone then TT'd to the finish.
 
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Is this as preview of whats to come later on?
Will be nice should the men be finishing in singles, and Orica takes a victory.

The girls are great!
 
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Something I don't understand about this concept:
With today's mountain stage, tomorrow's lumpy-stage, Saturday's ITT, and Sunday's sprint stage it could potentially be a pretty nice compromised version of the TdF.
Just make today's stage a bit longer - I'd say about 100-130 km - and have Saturday's stage be a prober ITT. Sunday's route would be the same as they've used the last couple of years, then they'd just need to find a good route for tomorrow, with the same finish as the men's and as many of the hills as possible.
 
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sir fly said:
Is this as preview of whats to come later on?
Will be nice should the men be finishing in singles, and Orica takes a victory.

The girls are great!

I think if people arrive with multiple doms the preview might have been the big bunch together unfortunately. Just doesn't look like it has enough in it to break mountain doms until it's too late. I hope I'm wrong.


Yep, really enjoyed that. would have been good if they'd given us the third place battle too.
 
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Something I don't understand about this concept:
With today's mountain stage, tomorrow's lumpy-stage, Saturday's ITT, and Sunday's sprint stage it could potentially be a pretty nice compromised version of the TdF.
Just make today's stage a bit longer - I'd say about 100-130 km - and have Saturday's stage be a prober ITT. Sunday's route would be the same as they've used the last couple of years, then they'd just need to find a good route for tomorrow, with the same finish as the men's and as many of the hills as possible.

The concept sure can be better than it is right now, but it's a huge relief the utterly consersative ASO finally give women cyclists a podium they deserve.