Tour de France Tour de France Femmes 2023 (July 23rd-30th)

[Red Rick]

What's the time limit gonna be today?

 

[Jagartrott]

Easy with the allegations about Finns and overt unhappiness, Libertine. Objectively, we are the happiest of 'em all, six years in a row now. No need to smile about that, or anything else, and Henttala knows it too.

I do wonder how self-fulfilling these happiness polls have become. I think every Finn is well aware Finland is the happiest country, so maybe they tend to answer a bit more positively than they really feel? It also doesn't match well with voting for a clear disgruntlement party in the elections in quite some numbers.

Anyway... Van Vleuten to win today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What's the time limit gonna be today?

The time limit is 20%, so it'll be somewhere between 30 and 36 minutes.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Friday July 28 – Stage 6​

Medical bulletin

Kathrin Hammes – Trauma to a left elbow.

Loes Adegeest – Dermabrasion right elbow.

Camille Fahy – Right Hand Trauma.

Veronica Ewers – Trauma to left shoulder, transferred to hospital after stage. DNS for stage 7.

Claire Steels – Nauseous.

Jury report

Lotta Henttala - Contestant clung to the team leader's car. Fined 200 Swiss francs and put off course.

Servais Knaven (Team leader AG Insurance- Soudal-Quick Step ) – Team leader let the rider cling to the team leader's car. Fined 200 Swiss francs and put off course.

David Gonzalez Redondo ( Movistar Sports Director ) – Unauthorized supply (sticky water bottle). 200 Swiss Franc fine and exclusion for the seventh stage.

Alice Towers - Careless disposal of a water bottle, leaving it on the public road. 250 Swiss Franc fine and 15 penalty points in the UCI classification.

Lotte Kopecky – Warning about incorrect behavior that can cause danger. No penalty.

Charlotte Kool – Warning about improper behavior that can cause danger. No penalty.

Danny Stam (sports director SD Worx ) – Dangerous actions during stage 5 and inappropriate comments directed at the jury. Fined 500 Swiss francs and put off course.

During stage 6, refueling is allowed from kilometer 20 to 5 kilometers from the finish.

In the context of the fight against technological fraud, 30 bicycles were checked. All bikes complied with UCI regulations.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The Everesting world record holder Illi Gardner rode Aspin and Tourmalet last month and completely destroyed the former Strava QOMs, riding them with average speeds of over 18 km/h. I assume they won't be able to beat those times today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Eliza Lomgo Borgini DNS, due to skin infection on her thigh. Not sure if that is related to a fall and road rash.

Are you actually Ilmaestro in disguise?

 

[Lequack]

Demi Vollering: "There was a lack of respect for us in the peloton"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1685176928540532736

View: https://twitter.com/WielerFlits/status/1685176928540532736

 

[Red Rick]

The Everesting world record holder Illi Gardner rode Aspin and Tourmalet last month and completely destroyed the former Strava QOMs, riding them with average speeds of over 18 km/h. I assume they won't be able to beat those times today.

18kph Aspin should be really easy for the top women. But there's a headwind predicted and the domestiques may not go that fast.

 

[meat puppet]

I do wonder how self-fulfilling these happiness polls have become. I think every Finn is well aware Finland is the happiest country, so maybe they tend to answer a bit more positively than they really feel? It also doesn't match well with voting for a clear disgruntlement party in the elections in quite some numbers.

Anyway... Van Vleuten to win today.

Totally agree. Being serious for a moment, the joke here is that Libertine's initial jesting was actually far more accurate as a depiction of how Finns express their emotions than any of these happiness polls ever could be. I don't think most Finns would take them very seriously, rather they are an object of sarcastic ridicule (which is admittedly hard to pull off online).

Agree about the juxtaposition with those polls and the composition of the government too, but I think I was already toeing the line of discussing politics, so let's just leave it there.

Let's hope the stage delivers.

 

[Lequack]

Chilling in the bus

https://twitter.com/x/status/1685283401354391552

View: https://twitter.com/ArkeaProCycling/status/1685283401354391552?s=20

 

[Samu Cuenca]

18kph Aspin should be really easy for the top women. But there's a headwind predicted and the domestiques may not go that fast.

It will of course also depend on whether AVV believes she has a better chance of beating Vollering by going hard on Aspin. She has a stronger team for this stage than Vollering, so they should try to isolate her.

 

[dobrien]

NO. Not Lippert, damn.

She's going again but that's not going to help her today.

 

[jaylew]

I think/hope the GC action will start on Aspin. Unless that headwind has been confirmed, that is.

 

[meat puppet]

Movi trying to put Gutierrez and Mackaaij up the road.

 

[Izzyeviel]

I'll never understand why teams refuse to put a rider in the breakaway but will then race their socks off to catch it.

 

[iBanesto]

NO. Not Lippert, damn.

She's going again but that's not going to help her today.

She was clutching her ribs too.

 

[dobrien]

Aggressive riding but so close to the foot of the Aspin that's not much time to build any kind of gap or get anyone into a tactically advantageous position. Going to be a straight fight today.

 

[iBanesto]

The two rider breakaway at the moment has no chance...

 

[Didinho]

So you don’t catch the break.
Or no break at all.

Think I got it.

 

[Wyndbrook]

I really hope they're planning on having this race every year too.

Perhaps not stop of the Tourmalet.

 

[RedheadDane]

Perhaps not stop of the Tourmalet.

Maybe not... but definitely shouldn't be the last time.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Slappendel must have read this read and decided to show Kopecky some love

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Movistar putting on the pressure from the bottom of Aspin.

 

[RedheadDane]

Good to see Lippert not looking too bothered by her crash.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Van vlutten is gonna launch this before top of the Aspin.