Where: Montecatini Terme to Firenze, Italy
When: September 28
How: 140 km including 5 climbing laps in Firenze.
It will most likely be gruppo compatto all the way to Firenze. The bombs start going off on the first of five climbing circuits. The strongest will stay near the front, with each circuit the pretenders will fall away. Sprinters and time trialists should stay at home. What should be left are the cunning, strong and a good descender or two. The finish is after the descent of the 5th climbing circuit so a regrouping of the last hard women could happen. Or not, it could unfold in a completely different way. I can’t help you. The start list can help you. And to add some confusion, here is another start list link. Lady luck or a sacrifice to the correct god may help you. I lament the lack of a ladies Vuelta so we would really know who was going to be there in the end.
If teamwork is helpful here, Australia and Italy have the largest squads. This course should produce an exciting race so find a good streaming video or stand on the side of the road in Firenze and shout your brains out. Bon chance to all.
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Smooth smooth roads for this race.
@norm
Thanks for the link. Sounds Iike it is starting to get interesting now and Vos, Armitstead and Johansson are all still present.
Stevens must fancy it - the Americans are setting a big tempo to try to shed riders.
No big names gone but it has sorted out wheat from chaff.
@ChrisO Not sure they've done themselves any favours though as they seem to only have managed to drop themselves.
Yeah TRIXI!!! Get some!
Stevens looking good though, and Johansson. Up against numbers from Italians and Dutch but they get an easy ride.
C'mon Stevens! Hold that wheel!
Vos! Vos! Vos!!!
Mariannacus!
That was a remarkable race! Terrific stuff! Sorry to see two of my top five stumble in the final selection, but Vos is just something else. And Rosella Ratto put in an incredible performance"”methinks we'll be seeing her name pop up more and more in next year's VSP. And good on Johansson to hold on for second after doing the lion's share of the work.