Giro Rosa (aka Women's Giro d'Italia)

davidof

The Giro Rosa (aka Women's Giro d'Italia) starts on the 30th June. It is 8 stages covering 801km. Of note Mara Abbott, the US 2010 winner is back. The Trotts are also riding. There is normally good TV and Youtube coverage of this event. Of course defending champion Vos is going to be there, can Abbott find some of the 2010 magic?


Mara Abbott

Tom Butcher

No UK TV coverage is there I suppose?

I'd like the BBC to carry show events like this, there is a push to get more people cycling and more women taking part in sport - got to be more of a public service than encouraging people to waste their money on the horses. Plus like Armitstead said in the week - when you think of bike racing you think of battling it out in the mountains or The cobbles not a velodrome.

Remarkable

I think she is very capable of beating Vos. The last time she did the Giro, she came in the top 10 while suffering with an eating disorder and she was also coming back from a serious crash. Seems like the year out has done her the world of good.

Can Marianne beat Mara?

mididoctors

the theme song for this race! Sounds like some italian version of these guys did it

Vino'sGhost

getting the trotts on a stage race is bad luck

Le Commentateur

www.girorosa.it/index.html

tonyf34

800km, is it even worth bothering. Jeez it's no wonder women's cycling gets little credibility when they are doing around 2- 2.5 times less than the guys..Still I enjoy watching the women but come on is 100km a day really testing enough?

Richmond Racer

tonyf34 wrote:

800km, is it even worth bothering. Jeez it's no wonder women's cycling gets little credibility when they are doing around 2- 2.5 times less than the guys..Still I enjoy watching the women but come on is 100km a day really testing enough?

Well, jeez, I think the women would like the stages to be longer. They'd also like the race not to have to keep being cut back because of lack of funding.

above_the_cows

Richmond Racer wrote:

tonyf34 wrote:

800km, is it even worth bothering. Jeez it's no wonder women's cycling gets little credibility when they are doing around 2- 2.5 times less than the guys..Still I enjoy watching the women but come on is 100km a day really testing enough?

Well, jeez, I think the women would like the stages to be longer. They'd also like the race not to have to keep being cut back because of lack of funding.

Or to have it clash with the TdF no doubt so that it could get the attention it rightly deserves.

Turfle

Provisional startlist:

http://www.pelotonwatch.com/calendar/20 ... tlist.html

DeadCalm

Turfle wrote:

Provisional startlist:

http://www.pelotonwatch.com/calendar/20 ... tlist.html

I'm pleased to see Sutatip Maneephan getting a ride. Hopefully we will start to see more Thai cyclists in the men's and women's peloton soon.

Given that the cycling in Thailand is so awesome, that they have some of the hardest climbs anywhere in the world, that cycling is seeing a huge upsurge in popularity and that the average Thai is small, wiry and strong, I'm reasonably optimistic that some real cycling talent will emerge from that nation.

tonyf34

Richmond Racer wrote:

tonyf34 wrote:

800km, is it even worth bothering. Jeez it's no wonder women's cycling gets little credibility when they are doing around 2- 2.5 times less than the guys..Still I enjoy watching the women but come on is 100km a day really testing enough?

Well, jeez, I think the women would like the stages to be longer. They'd also like the race not to have to keep being cut back because of lack of funding.

Instead of taking the pish smartarse why not come back with a useful comment, it was to highlight how poorly women are treated in cycling when the organisers can't/don't even want to run a proper race length instead of the medium audax distance of a 100km.

Remarkable

I think the shorter stages are much better. The attacking is savage!! Only the final 3 hrs or so are raced properly in the men's peloton anyway..

Le Commentateur

tonyf34 wrote:

is 100km a day really testing enough?

This is what some of my female friends who race also say. OTOH shorter duration can mean earlier attacking moves and also bear in mind the range of age & ability is greater than that of the male peloton. And then there's the subject of comfort breaks... can't quite see them rolling up to the side of the road for a mass pee like you get in a 200km Tour de France stage before the TV coverage starts and the guys begin chasing down the day's breakaway in the final, say, 100km.

davidof

Stage 1 (30 June): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_yWvNia08 - no real race coverage yet. RAI should have broadcast but can't find anything on youtube.

Maglia Rosa

DeadCalm

davidof wrote:

Stage 1 (30 June): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_yWvNia08

Not a great day for two of the Brits. Emma Trott lost 1:31 and Katie Colclough a DNF. Sharon Laws came in with the bunch and is 12 seconds behind Vos along with the vast majority of the peloton.

davidof

Here we go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 0KUCbxgWvo

DeadCalm

Giorgia Bronzini won today's stage for Wiggle-Honda ahead of Marianne Vos who extends her lead overall to 17 seconds.

phreak

Came to this a bit late, but does seem odd about the distance. I rode the Maratona on Sunday, and there were plenty of women doing very good times over the 138km course. It does seem a shame that one of the biggest races of the womens calendar is easier than say the Haute Route, which of course Pooley rode very well in.

Hopefully things will slowly improve and womens racing will gain an increased profile.

FJS

DeadCalm wrote:

Giorgia Bronzini won today's stage for Wiggle-Honda ahead of Marianne Vos who extends her lead overall to 17 seconds.

Vos showing some technical skills to avoid hitting the deck in that sprint! http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cn ... 130701_055

DeadCalm

Marianne Vos wins stage 3.

frenchfighter

Attacked from about 30km into the race. Few others with her.

awavey

phreak wrote:

Came to this a bit late, but does seem odd about the distance. I rode the Maratona on Sunday, and there were plenty of women doing very good times over the 138km course. It does seem a shame that one of the biggest races of the womens calendar is easier than say the Haute Route, which of course Pooley rode very well in.

Hopefully things will slowly improve and womens racing will gain an increased profile.

hopefully quickly, not looking to match the TdF in prize money. but 460 euros for the GC win seems pitiful compared to some of the prizes on offer for the mens tour,

andrew_s

50 minutes of stage 2 here
http://www.podiumcafe.com/2013/7/1/4483 ... 13-stage-2

Stage 3 report
http://www.podiumcafe.com/2013/7/2/4487 ... 13-stage-3

Vino'sGhost

Those clips of them at the presentation all giggling and wiggling to music makes them seem like giggly excitable schoolgirls.

As strong and as fast as some of them are that for me is why I don't watch. Women can be tough, giggly school girls are not. Each to their own I suppose.

frenchfighter

Anyone know what is going on here?

inkyfingers

I read that Vos pulled her foot out of the cleat in a sprint.

FJS

Check at 1:30ish http://www.rabosport.nl/nieuws/wielrenn ... -trui-1015

frenchfighter

Thanks both. Great save.

inkyfingers

FJS wrote:

Check at 1:30ish http://www.rabosport.nl/nieuws/wielrenn ... -trui-1015

That was a very classy save by Vos, she really is something else.

I know this is going to get me in trouble, but women's racing really does look very slow doesn't it.

salsiccia1

FJS wrote:

Check at 1:30ish http://www.rabosport.nl/nieuws/wielrenn ... -trui-1015

:shock:

By the way, and I might have mentioned this previously, but I bloody LOVE Marianne Vos.