Velominati Super Prestige: VVomen’s World Road Race 2016

I cannot get excited about a world championship road race on a flat course. I get it, the sprinters need their moment too, but really, the desert, where most people would not know who Beryl Burton was…correction, where nobody knows who Beryl Burton was. Yeah, yeah, they have tons of money and would like their kids to ride bikes, I still think it is a fucked place to have the worlds. And yet, the riders make the race, not the course. Think of it as a flat Dutch race with cross winds, super hot cross winds.

All you kids get off of my lawn now.

Start list is here. Good luck and good betting.
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73 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: VVomen’s World Road Race 2016”

LeoTea says:

Oct 14 2016 at 12:56 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Hosking
2. Kirsten Wild
3. D’Hoore
4. Bronzini
5. Where’s Lizzie
Teocalli says:

Oct 14 2016 at 1:16 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Van der B
2. Wild
3. The Borg
4. Lizzie
5. Deignan
cycleman3000 says:

Oct 14 2016 at 1:30 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Hosking
2. Vos
3. Van Dijk
4. Wild
5. Pieters
JohnB says:

Oct 14 2016 at 3:06 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Kirsten Wild
2. Chloe Hosking
3. Jolien D’Hoore
4. Anna Van Der Breggen
5. Eileen Roe
Jay says:

Oct 14 2016 at 3:13 pm
Said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw…

VSP PICKS:
1. Chloe Hosking
2. Kirsten Wild
3. Elizabeth Deignan
4. Georgia Bronzini
5. Megan Guarnier
TheDon says:

Oct 14 2016 at 3:55 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Brennauer
2. Hosking
3. Wild
4. Van der Breggen
5. Armistead
il muro di manayunk says:

Oct 14 2016 at 5:04 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Der Breggen
2. Wild
3. Hosking
4. Armitstead
5. Guarnier
Randy C says:

Oct 14 2016 at 5:33 pm
Road race? Really? It’s a crit folks. Yea…maybe a long ride to the crit. Anywho,

no one races crits like United Healthcare. So this has to be right up Miss Rivera’s alleyway. Cheers all

VSP PICKS:
1. RIVERA Coryn
2. HOSKIN Chloe
3. WILD Kirsten
4. D’HOORE Jolien
5. BRONZINI Giorgia
Minnesota Expat says:

Oct 14 2016 at 6:13 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Kirstin Wild
2. Jolien D’Hoore
3. Chloe Hosking
4. Giorgia Bronzini
5. Coryn Rivera
Snowy says:

Oct 14 2016 at 6:20 pm
Go Chloe!

VSP PICKS:
1. Hosking
2. Wild
3. d’Hoore
4. Deignan (nee Armitstead)
5. Van der Breggen
osbk67 says:

Oct 14 2016 at 7:46 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Van der Breggen
2. Deignan
3. Vos
4. Hosking
5. Bronzini
Quadzilla says:

Oct 14 2016 at 7:56 pm
C’mon Chloe,

Heat and Winds will make this interesting as can be for a glorified Crit course

VSP PICKS:
1. Hosking
2. Vos
3. Johannson
4. Where’s Lizzy
5. Wild
Harminator says:

Oct 14 2016 at 7:58 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Longo Borghini
2. Hosking
3. Wild
4. Bronzini
5. D’hoore
Lebowski Achiever says:

Oct 14 2016 at 9:04 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Hosking
2. Wild
3. Van der Breggen
4. Rivera
5. D’hoore
Monti Martani says:

Oct 14 2016 at 10:15 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. GUARNIER Megan
2. BRONZINI Giorgia
3. WILD Kirsten
4. VAN DIJK Ellen
5. KIRCHMANN Leah
Clingon says:

Oct 14 2016 at 10:25 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Megan Guarnier
3. Jolien D’Hoore
4. Chloe Hosking
5. Kirsten Wild
xyxax says:

Oct 15 2016 at 1:01 am
My family doesn’t think I’m funny, either. Sad.

VSP PICKS:
1. Bands gone Wild
2. Just Hosking for a friend
3. D’Hoore pauvre con
4. I’ve been waiting oBrennauer
5. Whole Lotta Lepisto
Buck Rogers says:

Oct 15 2016 at 1:25 am
Well, since I have missed the last 5 or 6 events, figured I might as well get into the last weekend just for fun!

VSP PICKS:
1. Kirsten Wild
2. Chloe Hosking
3. Jolien D’Horre
4. Marianne Vos
5. Annemiek Van Vleuten
Al__S says:

Oct 15 2016 at 1:59 am
Bronzini is DNS. Last minute change!

VSP PICKS:
1. Hosking
2. Wild
3. Van Der Breggan
4. Armistead
5. D’Hoore
Minnesota Expat says:

Oct 15 2016 at 2:44 am
VSP PICKS:
1. Kirstin Wild
2. Jolien D’Hoore
3. Chloe Hosking
4. Van Der Breggen
5. Coryn Rivera
Randy C says:

Oct 15 2016 at 4:57 am

so uhhh, handing out bottles is most exciting aspect of this event ? And then Miss Voss animates the front a bit. Hmmm, maybe could get interesting I suppose.
Rick says:

Oct 15 2016 at 7:26 am

@Randy C

so uhhh, handing out bottles is most exciting aspect of this event ? And then Miss Voss animates the front a bit. Hmmm, maybe could get interesting I suppose.

I thought the same thing. I really haven’t watched women’s races until this year but in the races I have seen they all sit in the bunch and wait for something to happen. Amber Neben was off the front solo today but that seemed to be the only “attack.” The only “racing” seemed to take place inside the last 10K when the Dutch team formed an impressive lead out train.

Having said that, the finish was exciting, but sprint finishes always are. Dideriksen’s closing speed was impressive and her reaction was priceless.
Harminator says:

Oct 15 2016 at 8:35 am

1 Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark) 3:10:27

2 Kirsten Wild (Netherlands)

3 Lotta Lepistö (Finland)

4 Elizabeth Deignan (Great Britain)

5 Marta Bastianelli (Italy)

Lizzie got married.

I thoroughly enjoyed the bit I saw but that was the last 10k…

The Dutch train was impressive – Wild will be crushed she couldn’t finish it off.