Tour de France Femmes 2025 (July 26th- August 3rd)

[Red Rick]

GPS telling us that Gigante is doing that hill faster than PFP. What a sight is that to behold.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Three back to back stage winners in the same race - one in sprints, one in breakaways, and one playing the game on easy mode.

 

[memyselfandI]

She's the Yates of womens cycling. Adam or Simon, dunno that but she is.

 

[Ripper]

And

Nose breathing when max effort

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She's the Yates of womens cycling. Adam or Simon, dunno that but she is.

Remember the golden rule of telling them apart. "Are they doing anything interesting? If so, it's Simon".

 

[Samu Cuenca]

This arrogance will cost her in the future, or something.

 

[Didinho]

Aero Pauline is something else.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

This is true, they have been doing that for many years until they have a chance to get patriotic.

But the fact of the matter is that Longo has been disgraced, so pretending like nothing's wrong, they may as well show Armstrong when Pogačar rocks up to Paris next year.

Well, Thévenet doesn‘t have a clean record either and they also show Virenque often enough so this isn‘t really a sensation.

 

[Red Rick]

Vollering has absolutely negative racing IQ.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

This arrogance will cost her in the future, or something.

Pauline's a super-peaker though, so it isn't like it's some instant karma thing. If she turns up to other races in this form, it'll be irrelevant, and if she doesn't turn up to other races in this form, nobody will be surprised because that's what she does.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Vollering has absolutely negative racing IQ.

You can take the woman out of SD Worx, but you can't take SD Worx out of the woman.

 

[dgodave]

I want a polka dot towel!

 

[Red Rick]

This arrogance will cost her in the future, or something.

She's gifted every road race to mortals beans the entire previous decade

 

[Didinho]

Pauline’s last bar.

 

[Tim Cahill]

FDJ did gets lots of polkadot points to be fair, much to the chagrin of Jos Van Emden.

 

[memyselfandI]

And

Nose breathing when max effort

Looks to me the mouth is quite open.. You do know possible to attack minute really deep before you need to open hatch, no?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Pauline's a super-peaker though, so it isn't like it's some instant karma thing. If she turns up to other races in this form, it'll be irrelevant, and if she doesn't turn up to other races in this form, nobody will be surprised because that's what she does.

And to be fair to her, at the start of the day she was criticised on here for not having won enough, so she had something to prove.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yellow helmet with yellow jersey and fluoro yellow sunglasses, all clashing with each other. Who does she think she is, Martin Fourcade?

 

[JR1012]

No stage win for the french super team. 😀

 

[QueenStagiaire]

And

Nose breathing when max effort

She‘s definitely breathing hard now, I don‘t think you need to look like a whale currently filter-feeding to breathe through your mouth.

 

[Lequack]

Pauline going full Pog these two days. But she looks more like Pozzovivo on the bike though, however the power seems to be there so who am I to judge.

 

[AmRacer]

Looks to me the mouth is quite open.. You do know possible to attack minute really deep before you need to open hatch, no?

She's smiling

 

[Izzyeviel]

if i hear anything about number 51 or 'shes only won one stage race' again I will go postal

 

[dobrien]

A lot of emotion coming out, looks like.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

And to be fair to her, at the start of the day she was criticised on here for not having won enough, so she had something to prove.

Not by me, I have been largely defending her calibre as a rider.

At the same time, "based on a true story" does not mean "accurate re-enactment of a true story". The era of super-peaking is truly back now, and I really don't know how I feel about it.