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.
[vsp_results id=”24617″/]
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Giorgia Bronzini
4. Tiffany CROMWELL
5. Pauline Ferrand Prevot
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Giorgia Bronzini
3. Emma Johansson
4. Ashleigh Moolman
5. Marijn De Vries
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johannson
2. Bronzini
3. E Stevens
4. Hanka Kupfernagel
5. Marijan DeVries
Le Chute de Crappe.
VSP PICKS:
1. JOHANSSON Emma
2. STEVENS Evelyn
3. KUPFERNAGEL Hanka
4. CANTELE Noemi
5. VILLUMSEN Linda Melanie
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Lizzie Armitstead
4. Emily Collins
5. Giorgia Bronzini
I could really do with some solid points here, hope for Lizzy Armistead to put in a good show, but think i might have got the order wrong.
VSP PICKS:
1. STEVENS Evelyn
2. ARMITSTEAD Elisabeth
3. JOHANSSON Emma
4. BRONZINI Giorgia
5. DE VRIES Marijn
@Steampunk
Well said, indeed. Saw this article on cyclingnews this morning and was proud of my home state of Vermont. They might be tax crazy and a bit liberal for my tastes but they are spot on when it comes to civil rights from being the first state in the US to outlaw slavery and one of the first to allow gay marriage. Now they are carrying the torch for women’s cycling as well! Go VT!
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/davison-and-wells-target-pro-xct-titles-in-vermont
VSP PICKS:
1. Armitstead
2. Guderzo
3. Marijn De Vries
4. Lucy Garner
5. Tiffany Cromwell
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. De Vries
3. Bronzini
4. Fournier
5. Taylor
Here goes… sentiment got the better of me..
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Giorgia Bronzini
4. Elisabeth Armitstead
5. Valentina Scandolara
@scaler911
My daughter sat rapt with one of her friends watching the local crit through our neighborhood last month. They declared that next year they would race the Tour de France. They immediately set about planning sponsors (Target, Justice, and Nana’s jewelry store), planned what their kit would look like, and most importantly, she woke me up the next morning to ride.
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Stevens
3. Gillow
4. Armistead
5. Guderzo
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. E. Stevens
3. Bronzini
4. De Vries
5. E. Armistead
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Marijn De Vries
4. Tiffany Cromwell
5. Megan Guarnier
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. De Vries
3. Emily Collins
4. Tiff Cromwell
5. Elena Kuchinskaya
ccc
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Johansson
2. STEVENS Evelyn
3. Moolman, Ashleigh
4. Guderzo, Tatiana
5. Wild, Kirsten
Fire in the hole!
VSP PICKS:
1. Evie Stevie
2. E Johansson
3. T Guderzo
4. A Moolman
5. MCGRATH
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Armistead
3. Johansson
4. Bronzini
5. Cromwell
Was bitterly disappointed by Contador dropping out of 2nd at the tour and stuffing my very clean run of picks, so hoping for redemption from the women
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Johansson
3. Marijn De Vries
4. Armistead
5. Bronzini
VSP PICKS:
1. STEVENS Evelyn
2. GUARNIER Megan
3. D’HOORE Jolien
4. MCGRATH Kristin
5. BRONZINI Giorgia
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Johanson
3. Armistead
4. De Vries
5. Stevens
??????
VSP PICKS:
1. E Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Giorgia Bronzini
4. Tiffany Cromwell
5. Marijn De Vries
Delgadoed myself again! FFS!
@Gianni
Earth calling Gianni. Come in Gianni !
Prologue results here:
http://www.org-rc.fr/course/2013/etapes/etape1/classement.pdf
@xyxax
Doesn’t work – try this – http://www.org-rc.fr/course/2013/etapes/etape1/general.pdf
Reports are thin on the ground but Peleton Cafe is reporting that Emma Johansson has won the prologue
No velonews results; no cycling news results….back in the day when given the choice between a men’s or women’s US NRC event, we proceeded to set a new standard. We chose women’s only NRC; and it was a 40k ITT at that…the women were SO appreciative…and much btool okay look at!
@leadout
better to look at…all thumbs today.
@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.
@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.