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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@Mike_P
Doh! no excuse sir! Damn Black Butte Porter dulled my Friday night edge, again. Being 12 time zones out is killin' me hea'. I was just going to copy Bianchi Denti's picks.
gianni, you guys fair ok with the storm?
@Gianni
But you have fabulous taste in beverages. Did you know that Black Butte Porter comes from Central Oregon? And that Central Oregon fucking rocks the fucking house down? This isn't just me talking here.
@PeakInTwoYears
Oh yes, Deschutes malted beverage is my go-to when not drinking Maui's own beers. And yes, also, having put in a seeming lifetime in the Willamette Valley, I understand the rockingness of the sunnier, drier, Central Oregon. All this a time before micro-breweries, gasp, when only Henry Wienhard was the alternate beverage, and much was consumed, A-Merckx.
@roger
You mean tropical storm Flossie? Flossie, really, they need better names. She produced the most intense, insane lightening-wind-rain event I've ever been in. It was WWIII for 20 minutes then poof, all done. Weird. No worries, we went for a ride the next day. Thanks for asking,
This link seems to have results for this event too
http://women.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?editie_idd=MjQxNzQ=
top 5 in prologue below (if my cut and paste works)
1.
JOHANSSON Emma
GEW
00:05:07
2.
VILLUMSEN Linda Melanie
WHT
00:00:01
3.
PIETERS Amy
SKI
00:00:02
4.
STEVENS Evelyn
NUSA
00:00:05
5.
KNETEMANN Roxane
RBW
00:00:06
Apologies about the formatting. It was originally a small table
Stage 1, from Twitter:
Giorgia Bronzini remporte cette étape, 2ème place Valentina Scandolara et la 3ème Emma Johansson.
Emma Johansson garde le maillot orange.
@Gianni Ah, Henry Dubya. Bless his cotton socks. I knew him well.
Standings as of yesterday (sorry, a bit behind in the mappings...) I'll update with today's standings as soon as I find a complete list showing all V top standings.
@JohnB
Best to leave this to the professionals!
@xyxax
Fucking hard to find results and reports. Thanks!
Some good info and standings (stage and overall) available here. Nice to see that my top five are still all within 30 seconds.