alex_cycles
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I know. That last climb was exhausting. Although I must admit, I giggled when the motorbike fell over.
Tour de France Femmes (avec Zwift) (et avec spoilers)
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I know. That last climb was exhausting. Although I must admit, I giggled when the motorbike fell over.
Dogtrousers
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Interesting fact I just learned from Twitter. When AVV pulled on the yellow jersey yesterday it was the first time for 14 years that a Movistar rider had been in yellow.
Dogtrousers
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Cathryn
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Woah!!! I had no idea! This made my day!!!! Quitting teaching now to become a DS!
Dogtrousers
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Clearly the way to win TdF and TdFF is to have a stupid bike change in one stage although leaving it to the last shows up Movistars lack of organisation
I'd forgotten the JV comedy bike change. Seems so long ago.
matticus
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Seems quite likely.
The 1984 winner didn't have a team mechanic when they started the race - someone got hired part-way through!
GuyBoden
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Another great ride by Annemiek van Vleuten. Easily outclassed the rest overall.
Peter Salt
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What a loss it will be when she retires next year. Maybe she'll reconsider?
https://www.strava.com/activities/7560652031
AvV Strava for the last stage , unsurprisingly QOM for the last climb (151 all time ) if I read the QOM leaderboard correctly someone has held the QOM for 10 years and only AvV and Demi beat her time !
AvV Strava for the last stage , unsurprisingly QOM for the last climb (151 all time ) if I read the QOM leaderboard correctly someone has held the QOM for 10 years and only AvV and Demi beat her time !
The someone being Roxsolt Liv SRAMs Australian Carlee Taylor
Dogtrousers
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What did we learn from that?
(Warning, may contain stupid opinions)
It was exciting to watch, and attracted plenty of attention. All in all a success. And something to build on. But ...
... AvV just totally marmalising everyone (except for Vollering whom she just slightly marmalised) is a bit of a problem. She's done the same, or very similar, in the past on the Zoncolan in the Giro Rosa. I don't think it's only because she's very very good, (which she undeniably is). It might be because the most prestigious women's races tend to be the classics meaning that there isn't so much reason for riders to train for big climbs. If the TdFF is going dominate the calendar will it drive a change in women's racing overall? And could that actually be a problem?
... why was there so much excitement about this while the Giro Rosa/Donne has been going for quite a while and tends not to get the same buzz? It even got into trouble with the UCI a couple of years back for not being televised enough, presumably because it couldn't make it pay. I guess the answer to that is the marketing power of the magic words "Tour de France" and the might of ASO.
I guess another question is what women's racing should be aiming for? Is the ultimate aim 21 day tours just like the men's or should it be aiming for its own, distinctive, events? After all, you could spin it as a positive that it's not burdened down with "tradition".
I don't know the answers to any of these questions. And some of them may be daft questions as they're based on my wonky opinions.
(Warning, may contain stupid opinions)
It was exciting to watch, and attracted plenty of attention. All in all a success. And something to build on. But ...
... AvV just totally marmalising everyone (except for Vollering whom she just slightly marmalised) is a bit of a problem. She's done the same, or very similar, in the past on the Zoncolan in the Giro Rosa. I don't think it's only because she's very very good, (which she undeniably is). It might be because the most prestigious women's races tend to be the classics meaning that there isn't so much reason for riders to train for big climbs. If the TdFF is going dominate the calendar will it drive a change in women's racing overall? And could that actually be a problem?
... why was there so much excitement about this while the Giro Rosa/Donne has been going for quite a while and tends not to get the same buzz? It even got into trouble with the UCI a couple of years back for not being televised enough, presumably because it couldn't make it pay. I guess the answer to that is the marketing power of the magic words "Tour de France" and the might of ASO.
I guess another question is what women's racing should be aiming for? Is the ultimate aim 21 day tours just like the men's or should it be aiming for its own, distinctive, events? After all, you could spin it as a positive that it's not burdened down with "tradition".
I don't know the answers to any of these questions. And some of them may be daft questions as they're based on my wonky opinions.
alex_cycles
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This year the Giro Donne was on at the same time as the Tour de France. If they wanted people to watch it, perhaps not putting it on at the same time as the largest sporting event in the world might be sensible. Just sayin'
We all agreed how exhausting watching the last two stages of the TdF Femmes was. I don't think I have the capacity to watch two major Tours at once. (Maybe with some more training I could up my game a bit?)
Apologies I didn't know the name . Done a bit of googling and she set the QOM during the route de France race in 2012 finishing 3rd on the stage
Dogtrousers
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This year the Giro Donne was on at the same time as the Tour de France. If they wanted people to watch it, perhaps not putting it on at the same time as the largest sporting event in the world might be sensible. Just sayin'
We all agreed how exhausting watching the last two stages of the TdF Femmes was. I don't think I have the capacity to watch two major Tours at once. (Maybe with some more training I could up my game a bit?)
Yes, that's a perennial problem.
