Velominati Super Prestige: GP de Plouay-Bretagne 2014
First run in 2002, the GP de Plouay-Bretagne is part of the women’s UCI World Cup series. It’s 4.5 laps totaling 121km. As usual, there is little information or publicity for yet another women’s UCI race. Here is a start list. Here is the official French website. And yes, Ms. Vos won the last two editions. We regret the lack of a write up for this race but we are frustrated by the lack of basic publicity. True, there is a Grand Tour going on and it’s a Tour with a stellar line up but shouldn’t the UCI whip up some excitement for a race in their World Cup?
Do not Delgado, the betting window closes Friday night, Pacific coast time, USA. Don’t ask why.
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VSP PICKS:
1. Lizzie Amitstead
2. Marianne Vos
3. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
4. FERRAND PREVOT Pauline
5. CROMWELL Tiffany
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Elisabeth Amrtistead
3. Pauline Ferrand Prevot
4. Emma Johansson
5. Shelley Olds
VSP PICKS:
1. VOS Marianne
2. RIABCHENKO Tetyana
3. LUPERINI Fabiana
4. JOHANSSON Emma
5. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
VSP PICKS:
1. vos
2. armitstead
3. longo borghini
4. johansson, emma
5. cromwell, tiffany
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Lizzie Armistead
4. Pauline Ferrand Prevot
5. Elisa Longo Borghini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos, Marianne
2. Armistead, Lizzie
3. Johansson, Emma
4. Longo Borghini, Elisa
5. Cromwell, Tiffany
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Pieters
3. Johansson
4. Longo Borghini
5. van der Breggen
VSP PICKS:
1. vos
2. e johansson
3. armistead
4. van der breggen
5. cordon
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Ferand-Prevot
4. van der Breggen
5. Armistead
Roll of the dice
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Lizzie Armistead
3. Emma Johansson
4. Cromwell
5. Borghoni
Armitstead’s already won the World Cup overall with a race to spare but she’s not been off the podium much at all and will want to continue that. Vos is the boss and will make a point that had she done the whole WC, the title would have been hers. Or something like that.
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Elisa Longo Borghini
3. Elisabeth Armitstead
4. Jasmin Glaesser
5. Tiffany Cromwell
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. van der Breggen
4. Johansson
5. Cromwell
NFC (save for the Boss and Lizzie). Would be easier with a wee bit of coverage .
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armitstead
3. Johannson
4. Borghini
5. Pieters
Err
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos Boss
2. Pieters
3. Emma Johansson
4. Longo Borghini
5. van der Breggen
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos, Marianne
2. Armistead, Elisabeth
3. Johansson, Emma
4. Pooley, Emma
5. Longo Borghini, Elisa
And you wonder why women’s racing struggles when the UCI diss it so. Hopefully Cookson is still finding his feet at UCI HQ and that sooner rather than later he’ll get his shit together and realize (like the commercial bike and clothing manufacturers) that the women’s market could be huge but needs support at the highest level.
You have one of the greatest female athletes of all fucking time at the top of her game (Vos) and you (the UCI) are letting a golden motivator for your sport go to waste. Seriously, the UCI are as fucking incompetent at the US Congress and that takes some doing.
VSP PICKS:
1. The Divine Marianne
2. Ms Armistead
3. Ms Pooley
4. Ms Johansson
5. Ms Borghini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armisted
3. Borghini
4. Johansson
5. van der Breggen
For some news and background on the race go to:
http://velofocus.com/
(And let’s lobby to get women’s cycling on TV).
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Longo Borgini
3. Johansson
4. Amialiusik
5. Van der Breggen
Same as it ever was.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armitstead
3. Longo Borghini
4. Johansson
5. Van der Breggen
@Julian Winn
Thanks. That is the best information yet, sorry I missed that. And yes to TV coverage, it’s the only way people will get how good the women’s races are.
One could do worse than just picking the first five of the Rabo squad.
For example:
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Van der Breggen
4. Longo-Borghini
5. Johansson, Emma
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Johansson
4. Pooley
5. Cromwell
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Elisa Longo-Borghini
4. Anna Van der Breggen
5. Lizzie Armitstead
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Johansson
3. Armistead
4. Cromwell
5. Pooley
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Longoria Borghini
4. Cromwell
5. Johansson
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Borghini
4. ARMITSTEAD Elisabeth
5. Pooley
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Lizzie Armistead
3. Emma Johansson
4. Elisa Longo-Borghini
5. Emma Pooley
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Pauline Ferrand Prevot
3. Audrey Cordon
4. Marianne Vos
5. Ashleigh Moolman
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Johannson
4. Prevot
5. Longho borghini
.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Johannson
3. Armitstead
4. Longo Borghini
5. Pieters
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Johansson
4. Longo Borghini
5. Pooley
May the force be with you girls!
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Johansson
3. Pooley
4. Armistead
5. Cromwell
Can’t bet against Vos
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Emma johansson
4. Prevot
5. Borghini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Hausler
3. Johansson
4. De Vries
5. Armistead
being wide awake at 4am means i actually get my picks in
VSP PICKS:
1. Ms Vos
2. Van der Breggen
3. E Johansson
4. P Ferrand Prevot
5. Thin Lizzie
VSP PICKS:
1. ARMITSTEAD Elizabeth
2. VOS Marianne
3. LONGHO BORGHINI Elisa
4. JOHANSSON Emma
5. POOLEY Emma
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Johansson
3. Armitstead
4. Van Der Breggen
5. Longo Borghini
1 @lucinda_brand
2 @marianne_vos
3 @FERRANDPREVOT
4 Ratto
5 @AnnavdBreggen
6 @L_ArmiTstead
7 @emmaprocyclist
Great race if you want a lesson in how to smash it watch this , shelled from the group , Brand bridges back up , attacks again and TT’s it home, nice HD link here
http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube3/?title=On-Demand+Women's+Road+World+Cup+-++Plouay,+France&dashboard=&id=Z45MPP-a9Rk&yr=2014
Aaah….a week in deep dark Wales has handed me my second Delgado of the season. My only consollation is that I was on a bike riding!
@LeoTea takes the Ladies GP de Plouay, nice one mate!
@piwakawaka It was a great race.
You beat me to posting the video link!
Ride on.
Julian
@Julian Winn everyone should at least click the UCI link to the race even if you don’t watch it, just to support the women.
@Julian Winn
Julian Winn? Julian Winn?
@frank Have to admit, that was a total guess. Figured Lizzie might want to celebrate with a win, so stuck Vos in second. Had no clue about the other places. Couldn’t even find a link to the course profile, so didn’t know if it suited a sprinter like van der Breggen or Kirsten Wild.
Stuck Tiffany Cromwell in 5th based purely on name recognition. Then saw her crop up on serveral other lists. Wasn’t sure if I had made a lucky guess, or if others were simply looking to see what the early entrants had picked (which I’ve never, ever done for any of the ladies VSP events…..)
But hey, a win is a win is a win.
Delgado. This is a terrible VSP season for me.
@frank
Damn! Pipped on the line by the width of a tire!