Tour de France Femmes 2024 (August 12th-18th)

[Monsi]

I would've expected Demi to get yellow already tomorrow in the Liege stage but yeah, what a performance by her to win in her home country.

 

[meat puppet]

Vollering laying down the law already. Gonna be a boring GC unless some ambushes or other surprising things happen. But I guess that was always in the cards. She's probably on to pushing 5,5-5,7w/kg on the AdH.

 

[meat puppet]

Why so low?

When Pantani broke the AdH record he did the flat prologue of the Tour in 44km/h average.

Vollering went over 10% faster today

Clearly we're going in the 33 minutes

If my memory serves she did something like 5,5 for 22min on the tourmalet attack and the entire tourmalet was 5,2. So didn't wanna go over the over the top

 

[ManicJack]

Why so low?

When Pantani broke the AdH record he did the flat prologue of the Tour in 44km/h average.

Vollering went over 10% faster today

Clearly we're going in the 33 minutes

She's going to go almost 4 minutes faster than Pantani did?

 

[KZD]

Vollering seems to have the ability of upping her TT game during a 'Grand Tour' just like a Contador, Pogačar or Vingegaard.

Kool winning the first two stages is unexpected by this time I would have expected Wiebes to have already a stage win.

 

[dobrien]

It could be a better route, but it is encouraging that a country has paid for a foreign start.

Yup, good point. Really hoping it becomes something much bigger, but then we also need more than just Demi as well...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stage 4: Valkenburg - Liège, 123 km

Start time: 12:25 CEST. There will be live pictures after about 90 minutes.
Expected finish time: Around 16:00.
Weather: Around 22 °C. It will rain during the stage, and there's a chance of thunderstorms appearing in the area.

The riders have travelled 200 km from Rotterdam in order to answer the age old question:
What if Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège were just one race?

After a loop on the AGR circuit, the peloton will make its way towards Belgium. An intermediate sprint in Pepinster is followed by the Mont-Theux, before the riders enter the current LBL final for the last 35-ish km. A bonus sprint has been placed at the end of the false flat stretch that follows the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons. We'll see, if that will have any influence on the racing. You'd expect it to be ridden more conservatively than the usual LBL, especially since we got 4 long stages coming up, but RaF should still be hard enough to cause splits no matter what.

The SDW riders are in a pretty good position after yesterday's ITT and won't have to do anything, so it might be up to teams like Canyon-SRAM and FDJ to keep the pressure on. However if they try to attack, they will probably be followed by Bredewold, Vas and Fisher-Black who will just sit in their wheels. Visma know that Vos can't survive unless the pace isn't extremely high, so they won't necessarily be that interested in riding aggressively, but with Henderson, Van Empel and Henderson they still have multiple options.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Clara Emond is out of the race due to Covid. She also had to abandon the Giro with heatstroke when she was leading the QOM. Elise Chabbey has also been forced to leave, after the crash she had on stage 1.

 

[awavey]

Quiet stage,Kool defending the green jersey quite well

 

[Didinho]

Vollering only with NFB. All the climbers in front now.

Redoute and Faucons. The combo that broke my lower back in April. Still not fully healed.

Started to rain now.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Gigante dropped on the descent.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Persico, Kastelijn and Ghekiere have so far shown interest in the QOM, but as we've seen in the first two editions, it's not easy for non-GC riders to win it in the end.

 

[Didinho]

Puck can’t help it haha. Vamooos Fenix.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

It astounds me how Puck can just step on any bike and be elite whilst Van Empel is subpar in everything except CX.

 

[Didinho]

These wet roads gives me PTSD from the hailstorm I had there.

Puck looks good enough to win today. Maybe her best chance if Demi isn’t showing interest to go solo today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

This Ghekiere attack was nicely set up. Baril's not so much.

 

[Didinho]

The Faucons will settle the race. Such a hard climb in this weather. No hiding anymore.

Cecilie crash.

 

[Didinho]

Puck takes the KOM jersey here!

And a good chance for victory with Rooijackers in front.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Puck's gonna Puck, but she should either attack or just sit on.

 

[Didinho]

Puck's gonna Puck, but she should either attack or just sit on.

She looks so strong today. Not that bad to ride now with the others, get enough time on the next group and attack later. Bring her to all the classics next season!

 

[yaco]

I have seen enough of Puck to predict she has GC GT ambitions in the future, if she chooses to go down that path.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

However if Pieterse can do this, then I guess PFP really can win this race

 

[Didinho]

I have seen enough of Puck to predict she has GC GT ambitions in the future, if she chooses to go down that path.

These hills can’t be compared with the high mountains. More like mountainbike climb efforts. And if you see PFP ride away easily from Puck in the Olympics and wanting to go for Tour GC next year.

Just hoping Puck can win today. Will be hard to get away or win the sprint. Unless she really is the strongest today and got more energy left.

 

[meat puppet]

Niewiadoma to attack

E: beat me to it lol

 

[Didinho]

Close one.

Please let it be Puck. Demi didn’t look confident that she won.