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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@xyxax
Woops, right you are...
@Disputers
I'm sorry to say that if you put in a misspelling of "Johansson" without further indication of which you meant, your disputes are being denied.
Sorry, but you have to be clear enough for us to know who you mean; its a Piti Principle violation to be vague and then pick the one who has points. We've been warning about this for a few events now and at this point, the line in the sand has been drawn.
@frank
...which is to say that if I'd meant to pick someone other than Emma Johansson, I should just keep my yap shut at this point?
@Steampunk
Back in second place are you?
I think what Frank meant is that if we picked David Johansen, then he can't be expected to know if we meant Buster Poindexter or the New York Dolls.
But to be extra careful, you should probably go with the yap thing.
@xyxax, @Steampunk
I mean that if you put in "Johanson" and not Johansen or Johansson, and failed to add a "C" or "E" or anything else telling us which ambiguity you had shaped in your mind while mistyping, then you are shit out of luck.
@xyxax
I'm not that good at the yap thing. Is there something I can take for that, doc?
@Steampunk
Pythons?
@Steampunk
I'm taking this as an admission of guilt & would ask the keepers demote the good professor...I've no qualms about how I step up the podium.
@frank
We should be grateful that you think our knowledge of women's cycling extends beyond Emma Johanssen(sic) and marianne Vos!
Bronzini FTW, again. No change in the overall.
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And Ashleigh Moolman did not start today's stage. Fiddlesticks.