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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Blah says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:00 pm

Disputing: Picked Arndt in top five, no points. Have fun sorting it from the tour, or leave it 'til you get back.
Mikael Liddy says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:17 pm

Interesting that despite picking Judith Arndt in top spot I'm only getting one point for having Armstrong in the top 5...has the VSP scoring been on the Tripels as well?
wiscot says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:27 pm

@Blah

Disputing: Picked Arndt in top five, no points. Have fun sorting it from the tour, or leave it 'til you get back.

Ditto here. Picked Arndt in top 5 - that gets me a point, non?
Mikael Liddy says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:37 pm

@wiscot @Blah looks like any pick of Arndt hasn't registered with the scorers...
RedRanger says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:38 pm

@Mikael Liddy
Then the win should go to you since you put that pick in before me. Congrats.
Blah says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:43 pm

@wiscot

@Blah

Disputing: Picked Arndt in top five, no points. Have fun sorting it from the tour, or leave it 'til you get back.

Ditto here. Picked Arndt in top 5 - that gets me a point, non?

Oui.
Mikael Liddy says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:53 pm

@RedRanger
probably depends if anyone else put Arndt on the top spot & has more than one other point...plus I can't post with both the MSR badge & the ladies' RVV one so you might get to keep the pink.
paolo says:

Apr 1 2012 at 5:58 pm

I think I get a point for Wild
mouse says:

Apr 1 2012 at 8:09 pm

@paolo

I think I get a point for Wild

Yep, me too
frank says:

Apr 1 2012 at 9:36 pm

Don't tell me what you're missing in the comments. That's what the dispute mechanism is for, use it please.

For those of you who did dispute your picks, they should be fixed. I'm not going through the comments and trying to figure out from that which of you are missing points, FYI.