Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia Femminile Internazionale 2013
This is the women’s Giro and it just happens to take place in early July, bad timing or good timing, at least the Italians step up and do a mini-Grand Tour. Here is the start list. Unfortunately we cannot be giving away more bikes and wheels for this race, but bragging rights and points are useful. Do I have any insightful things to say about this race? No, I don’t know anything about it and it’s not that I’m not interested. There is very little coverage of women’s racing that I ever see, in print or on television in the USA. I’d watch women racing in Italy. I’m not getting up at midnight to watch streaming video of it, sorry. I didn’t do that for the men’s Giro. The Tour will suck a lot of reporting over to France but hopefully there are a few sage reporters and photos who know women’s racing and Italy are a great combination.
Marianne Vos, Marianne Vos, can someone beat Marianne Vos? I like her, she seems a very nice person and a supremely gifted cyclist but really ladies, someone has to step up. I am a broken record about this. Maybe she is Ellen Merckx and no one will dominate so when she retires but I would love to see many other badass women up on the top step of the podiums too. Let it begin this Sunday. And don’t Delgado yourself out of this VSP with TdF fever.
From Giovinazzo to Cremona, the Giro Donne
Stage: 1 – 30 June : Giovinazzo – Margherita de Savioa, 124.30 km
Stage: 2 – 1 July : Pontecagnano Faiano, 99.60 km
Stage: 3 – 2 July : Cerro al Volturno , 111.60 km
Stage: 4 – 3 July : Monte San Vito – Castelfidardo, 137.20 km
Stage: 5 – 4 July : Varazze – Monte Beigua, 73.30 km
Stage: 6 – 5 July : Terme di Premia – San Domenico , 121.00 km
Stage: 7 – 6 July : Corbetta , 120.00 km
Stage: 8 – 7 July : Cremona ITT, 16.00 km
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Stevens, ev
3. Van dijk
4. Johannsen
5. luperini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Stevens, evelyn
3. Van dijk
4. Johannsen, emma
5. luperini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Johannsen
4. Stevens
5. Pooley
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Tiffany Cromwell
4. Bronzini
5. Tatiana Giuderzo
VSP PICKS:
1. marianne Vos
2. Pooley
3. stevens
4. Bronzini
5. Johannsen
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Emma Pooley
4. Georgia Bronzini
5. Evelyn Stevens
As a side note, thanks to the Keepers for gender equity and giving me something else to research in foreign languages I can’t speak to read the tea leaves of women’s cycling. I’m loving learning the whole cast of characters just like I loved learning names like LeMond, Hinault, Miller, and Jean Francois Bernard when I was but a young pup.
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Valentina Carretta
4. Mara Abbott
5. Ina Teutenberg
VSP PICKS:
1. M Voss
2. G Bronzini
3. E Stevens
4. E Van Dijk
5. A Van Der Breggen
Alrighty ladies, let’s rock!
VSP PICKS:
1. M Voss
2. E Van Dijk
3. E Stevens
4. E Pooley
5. S Olds
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Stevens
4. Pooley
5. Van Dijk
Fine-tuning…
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Ashleigh Moolman
4. Marijn de Vries
5. Tatiana Antoshina
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Tatiana Antoshina
3. Georgia Bronzini
4. Arude Biannic
5. Ashleigh Moolman
#gobriego
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Mara Abbott
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Emma Pooley
5. Tatiana Antoshina
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Mara Abbott
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Tiffany Cromwell
5. Claudia Hausler
Yup, cannot find Longo Borhghini on the start list. Swapping her out.
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Giorgio Bronzini
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. E Van Dijk
5. Emma Johansson
@Erik
+1!
Take 2.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. De Vries
3. Stevens
4. Cromwell
5. Abbott
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Hausler
3. Stevens
4. Bronzini
5. Abbott
Honestly, I have no idea but some of the names on the start list are making me weak at the knees. Love it.
VSP PICKS:
1. Shara Gillow
2. Emma Trott
3. Marijan Vos
4. Bronzini
5. Borghini
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk
2. Longo Borghini
3. Vos
4. Stevens
5. Bronzini
VSP PICKS:
1. De Vries
2. Vos
3. Bras
4. Cromwell
5. Stevens
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Borghini
4. Teutenberg
5. Stevens
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. DeVries
4. Teutenberg
5. Stevens
I love the way Vos races, love he way she races everything. Could be no better champion.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Johannson
3. Bronzini
4. Borghini
5. Villumsen
@Simon
You love it even more when you find out that Johansson is not racing….
I have put Wiggo in four all five positions because apparently he “descends like a girl”. Vos would wipe the floor with him downhill base on the Giro….
VSP PICKS:
1. Wiggins
2. Wiggins
3. Wiggins
4. Wiggins
5. Wiggins
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Tatiana Guderzo
4. Emily Collins
5. Georgia Bronzini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Stevens
3. Bronzini
4. Cromwell
5. Johansson
Go cloggies…
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Giorgia Bronzini
3. Ellen van Dijk
4. Evelyn Stevens
5. Loes Gunnewijk
Just the fact that there is an expanded Women’s VSP this year is proof that the Velominati care about growing the sport of Women’s Cycling. And to suggest otherwise you might get a talking to by Frank himself.
VSP PICKS:
1. Like a Vos
2. G. Bronzini
3. E. Stevens
4. S. Olds
5. E. Trott
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Giorgia Bronzini
4. Marijn De Vries
5. Mara Abbott
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Ellen Van Dijk
4. Marijn De Vries
5. Giorgia Bronzini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Van Dijk
4. Stevens
5. De Vries
VSP PICKS:
1. vos
2. stevens
3. moolman
4. luperini
5. De Vries
VSP PICKS:
1. vos
2. stevens
3. johanson
4. pooley
5. arndt
No Emma J. Replacing with Mara Abbot.
VSP PICKS:
1. vos
2. stevens
3. abbot
4. pooley
5. arndt
This race should be fun to watch, I’m almost more interested in this than the first week of that other big race that starts the day before…
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Claudia Hausler
4. Mara Abbot
5. Alena Amialiusk
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Cromwell
3. Bronzini
4. De Vries
5. Van Dijk
Sadly no TV coverage…
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. E Stevens
4. Borghini
5. E Van Dijk
As a heads up, Borghini has a fractured hip…
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. E Stevens
3. Bronzini
4. E Fahlin
5. A Visser
@Deakus
@Deakus
Oops. I was going with my default choices from the spring classics. Johansson also on my mind cos the 2008 women’s olympic road race was the article of the day on wikipedia the other day…
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Borghini
4. Stevens
5. Villumsen
VSP PICKS:
1. E Stevens
2. G Bronzini
3. M Vos
4. Borghini
5. E Van Dijk
@Velodeluded LOL. Best picks by far.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Stevens
3. Moolman
4. De Vries
5. Cromwell
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Ellen Van Dijk
4. Marijn De Vries
5. Giorgia
Still pumped that I got to see Marianne Vos race in Louisville. I missed The Prophet but I think she’s the second coming.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Stevens
4. De Vries
5. van Dijk
here’s to hopefully good guesses
VSP PICKS:
1. M VOS
2. E STEVENS
3. M DE VRIES
4. T CROMWELL
5. E KRUCHINSKAYA
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Stevens
3. Guderzo
4. Bronzini
5. Antoshina
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Ellen Van Dijk
3. Loes Gunnewijk
4. Giorgia Bronzini
5. Mara Abbott
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Stevens
3. De Vries
4. Van Dijk
5. Bronzini