Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2012

Oenone Wood rocks up the Kapelmuur

The Velominati Super-Prestige continues with our second Women’s event of 2012, the Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. This one is made even more exciting for me by the fact that I now have some small connection to the Women’s Tibco Racing Team, as I watched with envy as they each pulled their bikes off the oversized baggage carrousel in Schiphol. Classy girls, each of them; they were really having a good time laughing in the giggly kind of way you can only understand if you’ve ever been jet lagged.

Sadly, this gives me no insight whatsoever into who might or might not be within a chance of winning the event, or placing in the top V. But be that as it may, get your VSP picks in by the time the countdown counter drops to zero for a chance to win the Women’s VSP. Winner of this VSP event will earn the right to comment all year with the Leeuw van Vlaanderen commenting badge. We will also forgo the usual Symbol Pack prize awarded to a Monument and award the winner a copy of the local newspaper the day after the race.

frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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Erik says:

Mar 31 2012 at 1:08 pm

Not sure why I'm going Anglo for the top two steps, but whatever. My gut tells me Verbeke, but I don't know enough about the women riders...... yet.

VSP PICKS:

1. Lizzie Armistead
2. Nicole Cooke
3. Tatiana Antoshina
4. Ina Teutenberg
5. Grace Verbeke
payaso says:

Mar 31 2012 at 1:09 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Wild
3. Johansson
4. Cooke
5. Arndt
Danger says:

Mar 31 2012 at 1:19 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Johansson
2. Wild
3. Armistead
4. Arndt
5. Pooley
Bill says:

Mar 31 2012 at 1:30 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Armistead
3. Armstrong
4. DÃ¼ster
5. Schneider
Bill says:

Mar 31 2012 at 1:31 pm

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ramenvelo says:

Mar 31 2012 at 2:09 pm

Go team!

VSP PICKS:

1. Annemiek Van Vleuten
2. Lizzie Armistead
3. Grace Verbeke
4. Ina Teutenberg
5. Ludivine Henrion
Skip says:

Mar 31 2012 at 2:24 pm

I anticipate the same number of points as if I hadn't posted, but he goes... BTW, Vos pulled out.

VSP PICKS:

1. Ina Teutenberg
2. Emma Johansson
3. Ine Beyen
4. Elizabeth Armistead
5. Ludivine Henrion
noiyce says:

Mar 31 2012 at 2:29 pm

vos out(but people still picking her?) teutenberg in

VSP PICKS:

1. gunnewijk
2. wild
3. teutenberg
4. hosking
5. arndt
JC Belgium says:

Mar 31 2012 at 2:30 pm

@Erik

@Bill

@ramenvelo
and @all others who picked Vos: her official team website writes she will not start because she is ill. Verbeke has been out due to a virus since the start of the season...

VSP PICKS:

1. Armistead Lizzie
2. Johansson Emma
3. Van Vleuten Annemiek
4. Gunnewijk Loes
5. Wild Kirsten
R00tdown says:

Mar 31 2012 at 2:41 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Armistead
2. Johannson
3. Arndt
4. Cooke
5. Teutenberg