Velominati Super Prestige: Route de France Féminine 2013
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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As usual, here goes very little.
VSP PICKS:
1. STEVENS Evelyn
2. GUDERZO Tatiana
3. JOHANSSON Emma
4. BRONZINI Giorgia
5. ARMITSTEAD Elisabeth
Johansson has been riding well all season, but Moolman is due a big win. She now seems to be the Lotto leader, ahead of de Vries.
VSP PICKS:
1. Ashleigh Moolman
2. Emma Johansson
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Linda Villumsen
5. Megan Guarnier
Let it go, @eightzero, let it go….
VSP PICKS:
1. Johannsson
2. Bronzini
3. De Vries
4. Devorak
5. Daams
VSP PICKS:
1. MOOLMAN Ashleigh
2. DE VRIES Marijn
3. JOHANSSON Emma
4. BECKER Charlotte
5. VARGAS VILLAMIL Lorena Maria
Oooh, tough.
Liked the look of Armistead in the Olympics, but that’s a looong time ago and she was on home turf with super support.
Oh well, in for a penny …
Gotta pick an Aussie too, and why not Tiff Cromwell?
VSP PICKS:
1. armistead
2. stevens
3. bronzini
4. johansson
5. cromwell
Thanks for including a link to the petition. I signed it.
VSP PICKS:
1. E. Johansson
2. E. Stevens
3. K.-A. Canuel
4. D. Muccioli
5. K. McGrath
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Giorgia Bronzini
3. Megan Guarnier
4. Ashleigh Moolman
5. Valentina Scandolara
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Stevens
3. Armistead
4. cromwell
5. Canuela
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Johansson
3. Bronzini
4. Armitstead
5. Guarnier
Here goes nothing! Cannot believe that they even have to fight for a women’s tdf? That’s seriously screwed up! I remember when it was run regularly but I am sad to say that I do not remember when they dropped it from the race calendar. Signing the petition now.
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Johansson
3. Armistead
4. Bronzini
5. De Vries
VSP PICKS:
1. abbott
2. stevens
3. Giorgia Bronzini
4. Johansson
5. Armistead
VSP PICKS:
1. Tiff Cromwell
2. Emma Johannson
3. DE VRIES Marijn
4. COLLINS Emily
5. JASINSKA Malgorzta
VSP PICKS:
1. Johansson
2. Stevens
3. Armistead
4. Bronzini
5. Sulzberger
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Shara Gillow
3. Linda Villumsen
4. Georgia Bronzini
5. Marijn DeVries
VSP PICKS:
1. Eve Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Marijn De Vries
4. Tiff Cromwell
5. Giorgia Bronzini
No NLers this time around
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Tatiana Guderzo
4. Giorgia Bronzini
5. Shara Gillow
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Van Vleuten
4. Guderzo
5. Linda Villumsen
VSP PICKS:
1. JOHANSSON Emma
2. STEVENS Evelyn
3. BRONZINI Giorgia
4. DE VRIES Marijn
5. CORDON Audrey
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. De Vries
3. Johansson
4. Bronzini
5. Moolman
I have given up on Armistead. She just seesm to lack the hunger to suffer, patches of brilliance but as far as I can see all she has done this year is win a race in Glasgow. Salzburger is my outsider, I need something to bring me up the rankings and Cromwell needs to show what she is capable of.
Petition signed, although I put in the comments section asking why it is important. Shouldn’t the question be “Why not”?
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzininini
2. Even Stevens
3. Johansssson
4. Salzburger with chips
5. New Model Army (Cromwell)
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
VSP PICKS:
1. Johanssen
2. Bronzini
3. Knetemann
4. De Vries
5. Villumsen
As a father of two daughters, I’m appalled at the discrepancy between how we treat youth sports for boys and girls. Many years ago, while coaching my older daughter’s softball team, girls were perpetually being dropped off late for games and practices. “I bet their brothers get to hockey on time,” observed my 9-year-old (smart kid!). Taking women’s sport more seriously””and giving it greater mainstream attention””sends an important message to our daughters. Thanks, Keepers, for posting a link to the petition; for anyone who loves cycling, this should be a no-brainer way to spend three minutes.
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Johannsen
3. Stevens
4. de Vries
5. Armistead
VSP PICKS:
1. Johanssen
2. Stevens
3. Bronzini
4. Armitstead
5. Elvin
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Johannsen
3. Bronzini
4. Moolman
5. Armitstead
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Elena Kuchinskaya
4. Marijn De Vries
5. Emily Collins
I’m looking forward to the racing. Allez ladies!
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Megan Guarnier
3. Elizabeth Armistead
4. Marijin DeVries
5. Amy Cure
Excellent. Back to racing.
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Roxane Fournier
4. Tiffany Cromwell
5. Megan Guarnier
I’ve had good luck with the ladies this season. Let’s see if they can get back on top of the VSP.
VSP PICKS:
1. E Stevens
2. E Johansson
3. Bronzini
4. E Armistead
5. De Vries
No bikes up for grabs on this VSP?
VSP PICKS:
1. McGrath, K
2. Stevens, E
3. Johansson, E
4. Armitstead, E
5. Muccioli, D
@Steampunk
+1
VSP PICKS:
1. G Bronzini
2. E Johansson
3. M De Vries
4. E Stevens
5. T Cromwell
Orica try to boss it and nearly but not quite succeed – you heard it here first…
VSP PICKS:
1. GUDERZO Tatiana
2. GILLOW Shara
3. MOOLMAN Ashleigh
4. JOHANSSON Emma
5. CROMWELL Tiffany
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens, Eveyn
2. Johansson, Emma
3. Bronzini, Giorgia
4. Moolman, Ashleigh
5. Drexel, Ingrid
@Steampunk Well spoken.
VSP PICKS:
1. Wall St Refugee
2. Tiff Crom
3. Linda V
4. Bronzini
5. De Vries
in for a penny. From a free wifi pub on holiday. Roaming charges are nuts. Half cut after 3 beers due to 163k and 2774m up and down in 34 degrees of GC sun. Day 7 of 7, time for a sleep by the pool.
VSP PICKS:
1. Johannsson
2. Armitstead
3. Stevens
4. Bronzini
5. De Vries
Shocking how little info there is on this on the web! Thanks to the keepers and Allez ladies!
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stephens
2. Ashley Moolman
3. Linda Villumsen
4. Carlee Taylor
5. Lizzie Armitstead
WTF… This race isn’t even on Cyclingnews.com’s radar.
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Giorgia Bronzini
4. Elizabeth Armistead
5. Emily Collins
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Stevens
3. Johansson
4. De Vries
5. Armistead
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Marijn De Vries
4. Giorgia Bronzini
5. Ashleigh Moolman