Giro Rosa 2014 *Spoilers*

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited August 2014 in Pro race
Rabobank--Liv take all the spots on the podium for the prologue:
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Photos: http://velofocus.com/2014/giro-rosa-pro ... -pictures/
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30mins video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYGcfEju_VY

Vos wins stage 1:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIizrTI4YeQ
Photos: http://velofocus.com/2014/giro-rosa-sta ... -pictures/

1 Marianne Vos (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 2:42:03
2 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec Products 0:00:04
3 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Fra) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:00:05
4 Claudia Häusler (Ger) Team Giant Shimano 0:01:20
5 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
6 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
7 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica AIS
8 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (RSA) Hitec Products
9 Mara Abbott (USA) Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling 0:01:24
10 Audrey Cordon (Fra) Hitec Products
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Today’s result:
    1. Giorgia Bronzini
    2. Marianne Vos
    3. Shelley Olds
    Vos keeps leader jersey.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 3:
    Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 3:20:50
    2 Elena Berlato (Ita) Ale' Cipollini Galassia 0:00:10
    3 Mayuko Hagiwara (Jpn) Wiggle Honda 0:00:16
    4 Doris Schweizer (Swi) Astana Bepink Womens Team 0:00:20
    5 Marianne Vos (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:00:21
    6 Claudia Häusler (Ger) Team Giant Shimano
    7 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Fra) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
    8 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
    9 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica AIS
    10 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (RSA) Hitec Products
    11 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec Products
    12 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
    13 Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
    14 Eugenia Bujak (Pol) Btc City Ljubljana
    15 Katarzyna Pawlowska (Pol) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 0:00:27
    16 Mara Abbott (USA) Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling
    17 Evelyn Stevens (USA) Specialized Lululemon
    18 Katrin Garfoot (Aus) Orica AIS
    19 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Estado De Mexico Faren
    20 Tetiana Riabchenko (Ukr) S.C. Michela Fanini Rox

    Video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY1QEeE0C8Q
    Photos:
    http://velofocus.com/2014/giro-rosa-sta ... -pictures/

    Stage 4:
    Sprint won by Vos.

    GC:
    1 Marianne Vos (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 12:04:02
    2 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Fra) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:00:31
    3 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec Products 0:00:39
    4 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:01:51
    5 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica AIS 0:02:00
    6 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
    7 Claudia Häusler (Ger) Team Giant Shimano 0:02:03
    8 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:02:04
    9 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (RSA) Hitec Products 0:02:08
    10 Audrey Cordon (Fra) Hitec Products 0:02:34
    11 Mara Abbott (USA) Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling 0:02:42
    12 Evelyn Stevens (USA) Specialized Lululemon 0:03:08
    13 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Estado De Mexico Faren 0:03:15

    Photos:
    http://velofocus.com/2014/giro-rosa-sta ... -pictures/

    Fabiana Luperini right up there and she is 40. See here for info:
    viewtopic.php?f=40002&t=12636081&p=16062236&hilit=Luperini#p16062236
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  • Remarkable
    Remarkable Posts: 187
    Terrible luck for Emma Pooley getting those nose bleeds a few days ago. Wondering will she focus on the mountains jersey now..might get pretty interesting with Mara Abbott aswell.

    2,300 metres of climbing tomorrow over 112 km. :D
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    Pooley has obviously recovered, she's just won today's stage. (Which I think is the first stage win for a team other than Rabobank-Liv).
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    andyp wrote:
    Pooley has obviously recovered, she's just won today's stage. (Which I think is the first stage win for a team other than Rabobank-Liv).

    Good news!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    andyp wrote:
    Pooley has obviously recovered, she's just won today's stage. (Which I think is the first stage win for a team other than Rabobank-Liv).

    I was wrong of course, Giorgia Bronzini won the second stage for Wiggle-Honda.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dxOutXlSY&autoplay=1&app=desktop

    Highlights of Pooley being awesome.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,160
    This whole thing needs more attention.
    The only way women's racing is going to get bigger is if we can demonstrate someone is watching.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    This whole thing needs more attention.
    The only way women's racing is going to get bigger is if we can demonstrate someone is watching.

    Little anecdote - I was watching the Tour of Flanders in Oudenaarde.

    Saw the women set off, gave them a cheer. Stayed in the same spot - the organisers took the start line parafinalia down - was a bar in the same spot showing the men's race.

    With around 80km to to in the men's race the women started coming through the square having just finished their race, in drips and drabs. No one even looked away from the screen, and some were so distracted they were actually in the riders' way. And this is THE cycling nation.


    UK is different in that its initial experience with cycling was Olympics which is fairly gender equal(ish) so already has some female household names. That's unusual though.
    _
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Pooley wins stage 8's MTF. :D

    I <3's her.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
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    Correlation is not causation.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,163
    I'm confused with Pooley. I thought she had retired a couple of months back and she was down as riding the Nationals for VC Norwich but then turned up riding as a Lotto rider and is now doing really well here.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    She's been riding with Lotto all season, with this race always being her main target.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,095
    I've been in riding around Verbania all week, where today's stage started. The weather has been very up and down with warmish days then cold days... even some snow in the mountains. Today started in relatively good but cool weather then the rain came in and it was a bit of a stinker.
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  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Pross wrote:
    I'm confused with Pooley. I thought she had retired a couple of months back and she was down as riding the Nationals for VC Norwich but then turned up riding as a Lotto rider and is now doing really well here.

    1st claim club VC Norwich in UK perhaps?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Really happy for Pooley on those two nice wins. Abbott doing well.

    Final day today.

    Photos for Pooley's two wins on the site I posted above are worth looking at.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    Vos wins the GC, no news yet on who won the final stage at the summit of the Ghisallo.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    Scratch that, Pooley takes her third stage win (one behind Vos) of the race.

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Yay Emma :D
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Haha, nice work.

    Really are very few people capable of winning in the women's peloton though.
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  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ZiY#t=2311

    Unbelievably bad sportsmanship from RaboLiv, kettling in Mara Abbott.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,643
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ZiY#t=2311

    Unbelievably bad sportsmanship from RaboLiv, kettling in Mara Abbott.

    Surely just good tactics...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ZiY#t=2311

    Unbelievably bad sportsmanship from RaboLiv, kettling in Mara Abbott.

    Yeah that is not good. You would have thought Rabo-Liv have not won enough this race if they had to resort to stuff like that :roll:
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  • Stridor
    Stridor Posts: 48
    https://twitter.com/mrconde/status/488572547022454784

    The comments are worth noting...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Don't think I have seen anything as blatant as that over and over. Really not impressive by those bullies.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I am a big fan of Abbott. If I was her I would have been very tempted to ride into Prevot.

    Have to say seeing Liv ride as they have done all that springs to mind is Gewiss type domination. Not cool. Women's cycling really isn't going places.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ZiY#t=2311

    Unbelievably bad sportsmanship from RaboLiv, kettling in Mara Abbott.
    Very poor. Hope that comes back to bite them next time they want another team to help them out.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    That's racing folks. Abbott hasn't complained publically, as she knows it's part of racing.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    andyp wrote:
    That's racing folks. Abbott hasn't complained publically, as she knows it's part of racing.

    Well although not illegal it is not sporting. I have never seen that sort of level of blocking occur before.
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  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    andyp wrote:
    That's racing folks. Abbott hasn't complained publically, as she knows it's part of racing.

    If you watch the footage it occurs a multiple times all the way up the final climb. I've never seen anything as blatant as that - corralling not blocking. It's racing of a sort. The only response for Mara would be to make room but she's not exactly got the physique for that.

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