Velominati Super Prestige: Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne 2013
Brittany is the kind of area that produces strong-minded and strong-bodied people; I’m looking at you, Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault. It produces this type of person because that’s what windy farming land does to people. Brittany is also lumped full of short, steep hills, and we all know what that means: its a perfect place for a bike race.
The next installment of the Velominati Super Prestige is the Pro VVomen’s event of the larger Grand Prix Cycliste de Plouay. This is a route for a hardwoman who has some climbing punch. Vos is racing, which basically means that the one person who doesn’t pick her will win the event should she fail to cross the line first. But how likely is that? She is a monster of a racing machine, perhaps the most well-rounded racing Cyclist ever.
Check the start list, and roll the dice. Get your picks in by midnight on the 30th. Good luck.
[vsp_results id=”27083″/]
VSP PICKS:
1. Marianne Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Annamiek Van Vleuten
5. Tiffany Cromwell
@Chica
It is said to be showing on France 3 and possibly streamed on France 3 Bretagne.
There is also a site Plouay TV: http://www.plouay-tv.fr/ which could be a source.
expectations are low.
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. E Johansson
3. E Stevens
4. Van Dijk
5. Borghini
VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Bronzini
3. Stevens
4. Johansson
5. Borghini
@xyxax
Thanks for the suggestions! I really appreciate it.
@Chica try this link
http://prowomenscycling.com/2013/08/30/why-i-love-the-gp-de-plouay-and-how-to-follow-it-live/#more-2139
@Mikael Liddy
Ooh, fantastic! Thank you. Really wish it wasn’t so hard to find decent coverage of women’s racing.
ahhhh cack del-gado’d myself
Dammit, I was going to put Van Der Breggen in 3rd instead of 4th. I could’ve used the extra points!!
Results World Cup Plouay
1 Mariane Vos
2 Emma Johansson
3 Anna Van de Breggen
4 Amialiusik
5 Canuel
@Sauterelle
Well, you still won, nevertheless! I think this makes you the first woman to win a VVomen’s VSP. Good work!
@xyxax
Thanks.
@xyxax
Good for Canuel (a fortnight late, if you ask me: I picked her for the Tour Féminine…). I had Van de Breggen 4th and Johansson 5th (Vos 1st): curse this order thing.
@Steampunk
Canuel was not at all on my radar. I do admit to almost putting in Van Der Breggen based on your selection of her. Never doubt The Professor. Should be a rule.
@xyxax
Are you outing yourself as a wheel sucker? Following my selection and then being light years ahead of me in the overall? Sounds like I’m doing all the work and you’re just popping around me on the final straightaway for the win and the glory…
@Steampunk
Well, yes, I suppose I am, if you want to be vulgar about it. I much prefer the more maternal “wheel nursing.”
OTOH, it would imply that you had been ahead of me at least briefly.
BOOM!
@frank
WOW, my best VSP ever!
Boom. And no sign of you-know-who. Happy happy joy joy.
Delgado’d….
guess I need to check back more often. Or retire from the 8-5 and play all day.
good job sauterelle. And Freddy”
@xyxax
Just you watch: I’m lulling you into a false sense of security. Then: BOOM, indeed.
@Steampunk
A touch, a touch. I do confess.
[I am] fat and scant of breath.
Ouch Frank, Anquetil was from adjacent but rival Normandy!!