Giro Rosa

ddraver

...has been forgotten about us a bit what with some race in Yorkshire but come on, step up, we re all modern men (hat tip to the girls) and we care about women's cycling

No surprise who'e winning after 2 stages...

...after a short attack on Stage 1 and the subsequent Bonnifications.

But a win from an 80km breakaway on a mountain stage put's Anna van Vleuten into Pink

frenchfighter

It hasnt been forgotten as I have a thread on it which no one really cares about but im glad you are interested!

ddraver

oh sorry, I did look but obviously not well enough...

Stridor

I try, I really, really try to like Women's Cycling, but it's just not working for me. I don't know quite how it's happened but I've developed an irrational dislike for Marianne Vos. I just can't see myself enjoying it until she retires, and that's gonna be a while....

I follow the races, I follow on twitter, I read the websites but it's just killing me...and as soon as I hear or see her (which is most of the time) I just switch off.....

Completely irrational I know but there you are...

Pross

Stridor wrote:

I try, I really, really try to like Women's Cycling, but it's just not working for me. I don't know quite how it's happened but I've developed an irrational dislike for Marianne Vos. I just can't see myself enjoying it until she retires, and that's gonna be a while....

I follow the races, I follow on twitter, I read the websites but it's just killing me...and as soon as I hear or see her (which is most of the time) I just switch off.....

Completely irrational I know but there you are...

Domination in any sport tends to do that, hard to dislike Vos though IMHO.

salsiccia1

Pross wrote:

Stridor wrote:

I try, I really, really try to like Women's Cycling, but it's just not working for me. I don't know quite how it's happened but I've developed an irrational dislike for Marianne Vos. I just can't see myself enjoying it until she retires, and that's gonna be a while....

I follow the races, I follow on twitter, I read the websites but it's just killing me...and as soon as I hear or see her (which is most of the time) I just switch off.....

Completely irrational I know but there you are...

Domination in any sport tends to do that, hard to dislike Vos though IMHO.

Word. She is the absolute bollocks.

above_the_cows

Salsiccia1 wrote:

Pross wrote:

Stridor wrote:

I try, I really, really try to like Women's Cycling, but it's just not working for me. I don't know quite how it's happened but I've developed an irrational dislike for Marianne Vos. I just can't see myself enjoying it until she retires, and that's gonna be a while....

I follow the races, I follow on twitter, I read the websites but it's just killing me...and as soon as I hear or see her (which is most of the time) I just switch off.....

Completely irrational I know but there you are...

Domination in any sport tends to do that, hard to dislike Vos though IMHO.

Word. She is the absolute bollocks.

ddraver is like totes in love with her.

phreak

I wish the UCI would give the girls some decent routes to go over. It's not great when the various European granfondos typically offer female entrants a tougher route than most pro races. The pros deserve better.

salsiccia1

Above The Cows wrote:

Salsiccia1 wrote:

Pross wrote:

Stridor wrote:

I try, I really, really try to like Women's Cycling, but it's just not working for me. I don't know quite how it's happened but I've developed an irrational dislike for Marianne Vos. I just can't see myself enjoying it until she retires, and that's gonna be a while....

I follow the races, I follow on twitter, I read the websites but it's just killing me...and as soon as I hear or see her (which is most of the time) I just switch off.....

Completely irrational I know but there you are...

Domination in any sport tends to do that, hard to dislike Vos though IMHO.

Word. She is the absolute bollocks.

ddraver is like totes in love with her.

Oh, yes, I remember this thread. And yes, I was and still am jealous.

phreak

Just looking at the route and it maxes out at something like 1200m, with barely a mountain in sight. For a country with such natural gifts as Italy has in that regard it's a really poor route. Really sad.

I mean the other year Emma Pooley did the Swissman ironman event, which had a 180km ride over three 2000m+ climbs sandwhiched in between a swim and a marathon up another 2000m mountain. Just goes to show what's possible.

Cmon UCI, pull your finger out!

ddraver

Well they re limited to 150km which at first glance suggests that they re living in the era of "women can't ride bicycles as the saddles will make them too excited"

However...We re constantly bleating on about having shorter mens races to make stages more exciting, and given that the majority of the womens peloton is made up of semi-pros or even non-pros that cant keep up on the short stages (which is a problem in itself) Is it really a bad thing?

ddraver

DP...

TMR

To be fair, I'd like Marianne Vos to mother my children. They'd be the fastest, grumpiest kids ever!