Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016

Has anyone checked the weather report for Sunday? Seriously. Have you checked? Wind. Rain. This. Is. Going. To. Be. EPIC. And you can all thank me for that because this is the year I chose not to head over there, naturally. I’m annoyed that we didn’t do a Women’s Gent-Wevelgem; we somehow missed it even though we should know better because Belgium is way ahead of all the other countries in terms of holding both Men’s and Women’s events. But we’re not missing this one.

Queen Lizzie has been crushing it this year, but since I can’t find a start list I’m just assuming she’s on it for Sunday. The weather will be a real wild card because wet cobbles are very different to gobble up than dry cobbles, especially when it comes to cornering hard and climbing steep bergs; if they haven’t trained riding the Paterberg or Koppenberg in the wet, those could be decisive in the outcome. And while we focus on the cobbled climbs, there are significant secteurs of pavé on the flat and rolling terrain, sometimes involving tight, high speed corners; wet cobbles could play a significant factor there as well.

And I’m not an expert on wind strength, but 16 kmph of wind seems like it might be strong enough to blow some of the ladies off the road if they are on deep section rims, so that will be interesting as well.

Remember there are prizes on offer; Don Walker is giving a free custom steel frame to the winner of the VSP overall, and Café Roubaix is awarding a set of their CR Wheelworks Arenberg wheelsets to the runner-up. Third place gets a free V-Kit. Boom. So get prognosticating and get your picks in before the clock goes to zero. Good luck!

Update: Thanks to @hudson for a start list.

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199 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016”

  1. Looking forward to watching this race unfold

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Emma Johansson
    3. Chantal Blaak
    4. Anna Van der Breggan
    5. Lotta Lepistö

    VSP PICKS:

    1. L. Armitsted
    2. C. Blaak
    3. E. Johansson
    4. J. D’Hoore
    5. L. Borghini

  4. 1. Armitstead

    2. Van der Breggen

    3. Prevot

    4. Cromwell

    5. Johansson

  6. Have to stick with a win from the fairest of them all…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Anna van der Breggen
    2. Emma Johansson
    3. Lizzie Armitstead
    4. Tiffany Cromwell
    5. Chantal Blaak

  8. Go Lizzie!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Jolien D’Hoore
    3. Tiffany Cromwell
    4. Chantal Blaak
    5. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot

  10. Hopefully this will get me some points…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Armitstead
    2. Guarnier
    3. Van Der Breggen
    4. Van Vleuten
    5. D’Hoore

  12. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armistead
    2. Jolian D’Hoore
    3. Anna van der Breggen
    4. Annemiek Van Vleuten
    5. Julia Soek

  14. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Anna van Der Breggen
    3. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
    4. Jolien D’Hoore
    5. Elisa Longo Borghini

  15. VSP PICKS:

    1. Elizabeth Armitstead
    2. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
    3. Jolien D’Hoore
    4. Chantal Blaak
    5. Tiffany Cromwell

  16. VSP PICKS:

    1. Armistead
    2. Borghini
    3. Prevot
    4. Johansson
    5. Van Der Breggen


  17. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Anna van Der Breggen
    3. Chantal Blaak
    4. Jolien D’Hoore
    5. Elisa Longo Borghini

  18. VSP PICKS:

    1. Armitstead
    2. Johansson
    3. Blaak
    4. Van der Breggen
    5. Ferrand Prevot

  20. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Elisa Longo Borghini
    3. Thalita de Jong
    4. Gracie Elvin
    5. Ellen van Dijk

  21. Go Lizzie go!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Armitshead
    2. Longo Borghini
    3. Stephens
    4. Van der Breggen
    5. Lichtenberg

  22. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Jolien D’Hoor
    3. Emma Johansson
    4. Chantal Blaak
    5. Gracie Elvin

  23. VSP PICKS:

    1. Elizabeth Armitstead
    2. Anna van der Breggen
    3. Megan Guarnier
    4. Emma Johansson
    5. Elisa Longo Borghini

  24. VSP PICKS:

    1. armitstead
    2. ferrand prevot
    3. johansson
    4. longo borghini
    5. vos

  25. VSP PICKS:

    1. Emma Johansson
    2. Anna van der Breggen
    3. Elisa Longo Borghini
    4. Ellen van Dijk
    5. Elizabeth Armitstead

  26. VSP PICKS:

    1. Queen Lizzie
    2. Blaak in black
    3. Anna van der Breggen
    4. Annemiek van Vleuten
    5. Ellen van Dijk

  28. VSP PICKS:

    1. Armitstead, Elizabeth
    2. Ferrand-Prevot, Pauline
    3. Longo-Borhini, Elisa
    4. Blaak, Chantal
    5. D’Hoore, Jolien

  29. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armitstead
    2. Anna van der Breggen
    3. Emma Johansson
    4. Chantal Blaak
    5. Marianne Vos

  30. VSP PICKS:

    1. Elizabeth Armitstead
    2. Jolien D’Hoore
    3. Pauline Ferrand Prevot
    4. Carmen Small
    5. Jolanda Neff

  35. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie
    2. Anna Van Der Breggen
    3. Elisa Longo Borghini
    4. Emma Johansen
    5. Ellen Van Dijk

  39. VSP PICKS:

    1. Queen Lizzie
    2. D’Hoore
    3. Blaak
    4. Van Der Breggen
    5. Johansson

  41. VSP PICKS:

    1. Emma Johansson
    2. Elisa Longo Borghini
    3. Elizabeth Armitstead
    4. Pauline Ferrand Prevot
    5. Anna van der Breggen

  42. VSP PICKS:

    1. Liz Armitstead
    2. Elisa Longo Borghini
    3. Pauilne Ferrand Prevot
    4. Emma Johansson
    5. Tiffany Cromwell

  44. VSP PICKS:

    1. Jolien d’Hoore
    2. Lizzie Armitstead
    3. Tiffany Cromwell
    4. Anna Van der Breggen
    5. Lotta Lepisto

  45. VSP PICKS:

    1. Lizzie Armiastead
    2. Anna Van Der Breggen
    3. Chantal Blaaaaack
    4. Annemiek van Vleuten
    5. Julien d’Hoore

  47. VSP PICKS:

    1. Armistead
    2. Johanssen
    3. Van der Breggen
    4. Blaak
    5. Van Dijk

  48. should be good!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Armitstead
    2. D’hoore
    3. van dijk
    4. Longo B.
    5. van vlueten

  49. Word of warning to several contestants: We’ve had several duplicate picks and also some very ambiguous ones that defy precision. Go dispute your picks when we map them to “N/A” before the race starts or go enter new picks for the ones we deleted if they were duplicates.

    Thanks!

  50. VSP PICKS:

    1. Armitstead
    2. Van der Breggen
    3. Blaak
    4. Johansson
    5. Longo Borghini

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