Once again the metal grate is rolling up in front of the VSP lotto window. It’s bettin’ time. The Route de France is an eight day women’s stage race consisting of a prologue and seven road stages. The route stays away from any serious mountains so daily victories could go to sprinters or those willing to drive a breakaway. To make it interesting, Marianne Vos is not racing. Last year’s winner was @eightzero’s favorite Evelyn Stevens (a serious Rule #27 violator), an all around power house, neither a pure sprinter or pure climber, a Phyllis Gilbert, if you will.
Women are fighting for better wages everywhere and cycling is no different. But at least they seem to be having more fun and racing their brains out too. I don’t believe they have podium boys, but they should. In this race they have their own singer (!?). Here is the start list. We at Velominati are interested in promoting women’s racing in our own half-assed way so we offer up this petition to promote a women’s Tour de France.
This race begins on Saturday so do your research and don’t Delgado. These women’s race points are worth just as much as the men’s points in the quest for overall VSP general classification victory.
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@Steampunk
Stage one report too...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bronzini-earns-belated-birthday-victory-at-route-de-france
Everyone else is almost 3 minutes down or more..
General classification after stage 1
Result
1
Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica - AIS
3:27:07
2
Linda Melanie Villumsen (NZl) Wiggle Honda
0:00:01
3
Amy Pieters (Ned) Team Argos - Shimano
0:00:02
4
Evelyn Stevens (USA) United States National Team
0:00:05
5
Roxane Knetemann (Ned) Rabo Women Cycling Team
0:00:06
@Deakus Thanks for the GC rundown. I'm pretty pleased with my picks. Maybe research instead of gut feeling (like I do with the men's VSP) might pay off.
CN has the details. http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/la-route-de-france-2013/stage-1/results
Back to back stage wins for Bronzini, no change to the overall or to my points score of nowt.
The FB page for the race has constant updates.
http://www.facebook.com/LaRouteDeFranceFeminineInternationale
Shuffling on the GC after stage three.
@Sauterelle
Awesome! Amazing how hard the coverage is to find. This is a big race...
@frank
Hey Frank, I think those are today's stage results. Bronzini takes third in a row. No change in the top 5.
Good thing (for me) they're not giving out bonuses for placings.
@xyxax
This.
I was sorry to see Dalia Muccioli lose 27 seconds today. She's only 20, but finished 10th last year. I was hoping she might be my dark horse in this race...
Nooooooooooooooo, Delgadoed.