Who's the best female road racing rider ever?
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I was going to ask the best male ever, but you could have so many answers for the best male. But the question is the best female ever?
Can anyone come up with a better suggestion to Nicole Cooke - current olympic, world, 10 times British National champion, MBE, plus
2002 Commonwealth Games Road Race
2003 La Flèche Wallonne
2004 Giro d'Italia Femminile
2005 La Flèche Wallonne
2006 La Flèche Wallonne
2006 Grande Boucle - female Tour De France
2007 Ronde van Vlaanderen
2007 Grande Boucle
For me Nicole is simply the best for the last 10 years, just think of the number of break aways she has to have covered and to still come out the winner is just stagering.
Who is better than Nicole? If anyone?
Thank you
DoubleTop
Can anyone come up with a better suggestion to Nicole Cooke - current olympic, world, 10 times British National champion, MBE, plus
2002 Commonwealth Games Road Race
2003 La Flèche Wallonne
2004 Giro d'Italia Femminile
2005 La Flèche Wallonne
2006 La Flèche Wallonne
2006 Grande Boucle - female Tour De France
2007 Ronde van Vlaanderen
2007 Grande Boucle
For me Nicole is simply the best for the last 10 years, just think of the number of break aways she has to have covered and to still come out the winner is just stagering.
Who is better than Nicole? If anyone?
Thank you
DoubleTop
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Beryl Burton.0
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As above Beryl Burton without a doubt.0
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Jeannie Longo0
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Nicole is definately in the top 5, and it is close. But at the moment it still has to be Jeannie Longo from Beryl Burton.0
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Currently I'd say Marianne Vos is as good as Nicole Cooke.
Best females ever though have to be Jeannie Longo and Beryl Burton, can't really split them as they were different riders in different times.0 -
Jeannie Longo is still in the business; she is 2009 French Time Trial Champion0
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Got to be Beryl Burton, I can't recall another women holding a time record that was faster than a mans.Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?
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Beryl Burton.constantly reavalueating the situation and altering the perceived parameters accordingly0
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Jeannie Longo and Fabiana Luperini.
There are a bunch of others too, who would probably pip Nicole Cooke, depending how you assessed them all - Leontien Van Moorsel, Marie Canins, Judith Arndt, even Hanka Kupfernagel (who, like Marianne Vos, has had success both on the road and at cross), Beryl Burton, Yvonne Reinders (she was Burton’s main competitor on the track, with almost as many honours, but she had more honours on the road than Burton).0 -
LIZ HATCH.
Not sure if shes won anything, but shes very "talented..." It's what I look for in a female racer.
Is that suitably patronising to women everywhere...?
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I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
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nolf wrote:LIZ HATCH.
Not sure if shes won anything, but shes very "talented..." It's what I look for in a female racer.
Is that suitably patronising to women everywhere...?
I don't know, she seems to be famous seemingly because she gets her boobs out a lot when she races. Don't know if you saw the discussion on OREC over one of her maxim photos, but the amount of fawning over her was pathetic."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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ShockedSoShocked wrote:nolf wrote:LIZ HATCH.
Not sure if shes won anything, but shes very "talented..." It's what I look for in a female racer.
Is that suitably patronising to women everywhere...?
I don't know, she seems to be famous seemingly because she gets her boobs out a lot when she races. Don't know if you saw the discussion on OREC over one of her maxim photos, but the amount of fawning over her was pathetic.
When I said talent that was more of an innuendo than anything else..."I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
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nolf wrote:ShockedSoShocked wrote:nolf wrote:LIZ HATCH.
Not sure if shes won anything, but shes very "talented..." It's what I look for in a female racer.
Is that suitably patronising to women everywhere...?
I don't know, she seems to be famous seemingly because she gets her boobs out a lot when she races. Don't know if you saw the discussion on OREC over one of her maxim photos, but the amount of fawning over her was pathetic.
When I said talent that was more of an innuendo than anything else...
I know."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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I'll go Beryl Burton too
Liz Hatch.....there was the same controversy about Paulo Pezzo when she won the Atlanta Olympic MTB Gold in 1996...she was showing a fair amount of flesh etc.. in that skinsuit :shock:BAZZ0 -
Between Longo & Burton
I had the privilage of meeting & chatting to BB a few times,very straight forward,no airs & graces...a smashing woman.
Also I used to race with Mick McNamara,Whose dad was famously caught by BB,whilst they were both setting Comp record for the 12 hr TT,so met both sides of a bit of TT history!so many cols,so little time!0 -
liz hatch is the obvious choice
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i would also have to nominate emma johansson as a very talented rider http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos/in ... mmajoh.jpg 'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0
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Burton0
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Burton would not only kick the men's asses,
but talk them up as she passed...0 -
Burton and then Longo0
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Longo, she's won more at international level than Burton.0
