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

[Sciatic]

Recently I've heard Banks, Deignan and Hosking state that teams should not help SD Worx under any circumstances - Surely team directors have come to this conclusion.

SD Worx is certainly not going to chase now with riders up the road

 

[Red Rick]

This is just good game theory from SD Worx.

Other teams wanna force you to pull everyone, just attack and force them to chase.

 

[Red Rick]

Kopecky attacks.

We have a race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

This is just good game theory from SD Worx.

Other teams wanna force you to pull everyone, just attack and force them to chase.

Sure, and it's what they always do. However they have the strongest team anyway, so it would be nice if they for once just pulled until the finish.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Now thats a bold move from Kopecky. I approve.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I just tuned in a few k back, did they just gain back almost a minute in, well, a few minutes?

 

[Sciatic]

I just tuned in a few k back, did they just gain back almost a minute in, well, a few minutes?

Yup, mainly on the climb.

 

[Valv.Piti]

When you have a rider like Vollering, why don't you just drop the hammer with your team and just let her ride off in the sunset?

 

[Izzyeviel]

When you have a rider like Vollering, why don't you just drop the hammer with your team and just let her ride off in the sunset?

Won't drop Anniemiek doing that, at least not today.

 

[JR1012]

When you have a rider like Vollering, why don't you just drop the hammer with your team and just let her ride off in the sunset?

You can just ask the same question to the Movistar Team.

I think, both van Vleuten and Vollering know that the two last stages are so important and that they don't want to waste any energy.

 

[Red Rick]

You can just ask the same question to the Movistar Team.

I think, both van Vleuten and Vollering know that the two last stages are so important and that they don't want to waste any energy.

Yeah putting Tourmalet in TdFF as only mountain stage is like putting Col de la Loze in Paris Nice.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Peleton decided to give up?

Except for Kopecky, there she goes again!

 

[Red Rick]

Vollering trying to bridge way too early

 

[yaco]

It seems like Kopecky is riding to keep the yellow jersey - Better tactics would be for Kopecky to pull at the front of the chasing group.

 

[Red Rick]

None of this makes any sense unless Vollering intends to drop Van Vleuten with a really short, explosive attack.

Which means Van Vleuten should just drill the next climb.

 

[dgodave]

whoa sketchy bridge

 

[Red Rick]

Boni's for 2nd and 3rd should be in play today

 

[Sciatic]

Chase group not pushing —there is no one upping the pace so they’re stuck together even on 10% grade.

 

[Rackham]

Looks like Kopecky is going to get caught.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

What the heck is going on???

 

[dercuforever]

Nice to see the famous Movistar tactic works for women as well.

 

[SafeBet]

WTF was Gutierrez doing there? 🤣

 

[Red Rick]

Vollering should have just waited for that small hill in the middle so that Kopecky could launch there

 

[Rackham]

WTF was Gutierrez doing there? 🤣

Movistar.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It wasn't smooth, but the fact Gutierrez was able to stay with Vollering was actually quite impressive.