Velominati Super Prestige: GP de Plouay-Bretagne 2014

Maybe Lizzie? photo:Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Europe

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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  • 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

  • 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. 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

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