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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VSP PICKS:
1. Johansson
2. Bronzinni
3. De Vries
4. Moolman
5. Armisted
Good luck to me. I'll need it :)
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Evie Stevie
3. Guderzo
4. Trotters
5. Johansson
Much to my shame, I know far too little about women's racing so this is even less informed than my usual VSP picks. Time to focus.
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Moolman
3. ArmiTstead
4. Knetemann
5. Stevens
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Stevens
3. Cromwell
4. Guderzo
5. Cilvinaite
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Moolman
3. Bronzini
4. Armistead
5. Johansson
Lets get one thing sorted out ... it's ArmiTstead, not ArmiStead.
@Deakus, I hear what you're saying about Lizzie, but I'm going to hope she'll hit form soon.
VSP PICKS:
1. Evie Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Lizzie Armitstead
4. Giorgia Bronzini
5. Ashleigh Moolman
@rob_b
Quite. That's been annoying me for some time - if we have to spell and pronounce the names of races correctly, surely the same should apply to riders' names?
VSP PICKS:
1. Evie Stevens
2. Giorgia Bronzini
3. Marijn De Vries
4. Tiffany Cromwell
5. Elisabeth Armitstead
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Bronzini
3. Moolman
4. Johanssen
5. armistead