Velominati Super Prestige: Route de France Féminine 2013

Carlee Taylor, 3rd place 2012 RdF photo (AAP)

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″/]

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  • 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

    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.

    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

  • 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

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