Pooley winning in style again

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited June 2010 in Pro race
Shw won the 1st stage of the Giro del Trentino by attacking after only 25km. Only one rider could follow her but Pooley dropped her after only 10km. She crested the 45km climb solo, nearly 5mins ahead, and no one caught her on the 20km descent to the finish, leading with nearly 3mins.

It would be great to see some of these races.

So far this year she has been pretty impressive from what I have read and has won:
La Fleche Wallonne
GP de Suisse TT
Tour de L'Aude
GP Elsy Jacobs
Contador is the Greatest

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  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    Nice pic of her crossing the line - not exactly Cav is it?

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I agree, definitely a good one.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Bakunin
    Bakunin Posts: 868
    It is horrible that we never see these races.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    First big win of hers, which I saw was shown on RAI.
    This race should be on Rai sport at some point.
    I took this a year ago, this week, having first shoved her out of the way to get to Cav, Wiggins and Millar. :oops:
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Nice photo Blazing Saddles,

    It is a shame we don't get to see more women's races. I thoroughly enjoyed the Olympic coverage and World RR champs.

    Emma is a great ambassador for the sport. I hope she gets some recognition in the Beeb's SPOTY this year.
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  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Emma is a great ambassador for the sport. I hope she gets some recognition in the Beeb's SPOTY this year.
    +1 she is a legend already.
  • simon_e
    simon_e Posts: 1,707
    Sonny73 wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Emma is a great ambassador for the sport. I hope she gets some recognition in the Beeb's SPOTY this year.
    +1 she is a legend already.
    +1000.

    Cav she certainly ain't! Classy she most certainly is.

    Sadly women's cycling is only known to a very small audience so she and her fellow racers will never get the credit they deserve.
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  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    My heroine.

    If they just put women's racing on TV, the audience would follow naturally.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    She's taken the overall, for her second stage race victory of the year.
    I think it may be on Rai Sport, Thursday.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,229
    What a classy rider. With Nicole also coming back to form and the likes of Armistead we could have one of the strongest female teams at the Worlds. What a turn around over a few years. The Nationals could be a great battle this year.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Pross wrote:
    What a classy rider. With Nicole also coming back to form and the likes of Armistead we could have one of the strongest female teams at the Worlds. What a turn around over a few years. The Nationals could be a great battle this year.

    Depends if they let Nicole just pick her mates again as opposed to the people she should take.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,229
    I don't think that will happen now she has serious competition for the no. 1 spot.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    What a classy rider. With Nicole also coming back to form and the likes of Armistead we could have one of the strongest female teams at the Worlds. What a turn around over a few years. The Nationals could be a great battle this year.

    Depends if they let Nicole just pick her mates again as opposed to the people she should take.

    2009 Worlds: Cooke, Pooley, Laws, Armistead, Harris, Colclough, Martin (Pooley 14th - Cooke dropped out 5th lap)
    2008 Worlds: Cooke, Pooley, Laws, Armistead, Allen (Cooke win)
    2008 Olympics: Cooke, Pooley, Laws (Cooke win)
    2007 Worlds: Pooley, Armistead, Hare, Heal, Wyman, Slater (Pooley 10th - Cooke missing through injury)
    2006 Worlds: Cooke, Heal, Wyman, Slater (Cooke 3rd)
    2005 Worlds: Cooke, Wyman, Hare, Pooley, Goldsmith (Cooke 2nd)
    2004 Worlds: Cooke, Heal, Goldsmith, Newstead (Cooke 24th)
    2003 Worlds: Cooke, Heal, Goldsmith, Newstead (Cooke 3rd)
    2002 Worlds: Cooke, Heal, Newstead, Carter, Waller, Davies (Cooke 35th)
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