Tour Down Under, Stage 1: Getting Ready

With just five kilometers left to race, it was time to get the teams’ sprinters into position.  Two of whom were keeping a close eye on each other.  Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Victorious) was riding just behind Caleb Ewan (Jayco-Alula) whom he saw as his biggest competition in the sprint finale in Tanuda.  Ahead of the sprinting duo was on of the domestics for Soudal-Quick Step, Antoine Huby, and behind another for Intermache-Wanty, Dion Smith (not the American football star of years gone by).

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Tour Down Under, Stage 1: First Pro Tour, First Jersey

As I have already mentioned, this is Louis Barre’s (Arkea-B&B Hotels) first Pro Tour race.  Today, he honored his debut by getting into the break away that stuck for most of the final kilometers of the opening stage of the Tour Down Under.  With his effort, he has now done enough to claim the first King of the Mountains Jersey in the 2024 TDU.  After getting over Mengler Hill first for the second time, he is congratulated by his break away companion, Georg Zimmerman (Intermache-Wanty).  Both are debutantes to the opening Tour of the season, and both made a mark on their first day in South Australia.

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Tour Down Under, Stage 1: No Time to Stop

After multiple break aways, and multiple attempts by Louis Barre (Arkea-B&B Hotels) finally got into a break with Georg Zimmerman (Intermache-Wanty) that actually was able to open up a good side gap on the rather relaxed peloton behind.  The pair seemed to be willing to but in the effort to stay away, and to share the prizes out on the road.  It is the first time in the Tour Down Under for both men, and the very first Pro Tour race for the Frenchman, Barre.  Not a bad debut for either rider.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 5: Showing Her the Way

Throughout the men's Tour de France, I was struck by these banners both directing the riders and warning them of impeding danger.  Somehow I never got the right image of the riders and the banner together.  As Ricarda Bauerfeind (Canyon-SRAM) went pass one of these that turned her from a bit of traffic calming furniture, the image finally came together.  Bauerfeind had jumped free of the peloton with another as she raced towards the bonus seconds six kilometers ago.  She used that move to keep driving on her own toward Albi.  In just six kilometers she had but just shy of a minute and a half into the small peloton of Tour Femmes favorites.  With another twenty kilometers to race, it is right on the bubble if she will be able to stay clear, or will she, too, be caught within sight of the finish line.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 5: You Wouldn't

Yesterday, Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) lost her lead in the Queen of the Mountains competition to Anouska Koster (Uno-X).  However, she could consul herself with winning both the title of most combative rider of the stage, and more importantly, her first professional victory.  I suspect that is a fair trade off for most.  Apparently, not for her.  She went over the first climb first as her rival for the polka dots struggled to hold onto the back of the peloton.  As they neared the summit of the Cote de Laquepie she looked over at Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) to see if she was going to contest for the points on offer in a couple of hundred meters.  Spratt shook her head.  She was looking for stage honors and had no reason to contest the sprint for points.  Nevertheless, Kastelijn took no chances and sprinted away to reclaim her Maillot a Pois.  Behind her, still wearing the Maillot Vert on loan from the race leader in yellow, Asheigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-Quick Step) just watches in case someone launches an attack to get away from the peloton.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 4: Winning Her First, Winning Alone!

Unlike her teammate in stage 3, Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) was able to hold off the peloton's charge to win the stage.  I'm sure it helped that there were two categorized climbs in the final fifteen kilometers of the stage, and a steep ramp up to the line in Rodez.  While she wasn't able to keep the Maillot a Pois in her team, she was able to get her first professional race victory, and to do it alone!  Naturally, she will also was designated the most combative rider of the stage, I believe that is the third such honor for the team out of four stages.  She finished just over a minute ahead of the favorites and moved herself up to seventh overall in the general classification.  That's a jump of 25 places!  Chapeau!

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 4, Going Clear of the Peloton

Every post race interview Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) swears she is riding in aide of her team leader, Demi Vollering, yet she is still in the Maillot Jaune.  With her lead in the Tour de France Femmes slipping away to those in the break away up the road, she finally has a dig to get away from the peloton and up to those who are threating her lead.  She was quickly marked by Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) and the duo of Annemiek Van Vleutin and Liane Lippert (Movistar).  Collectively, these six (there is a UAE Team ADQ rider mixed in there too) are a number of those that are favored for the over all once the peloton reaches Pau on Sunday.  But there is quite a bit of racing today and over the next four days yet to be fought.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 4: The Back of the Front

When the on air broadcast started I found out that there was a group of fourteen women with just shy of ten minutes on the peloton and the Maillot Juane.  That put two of the lead group in to the Maillot Jaune Virtuale.  Virtually everyone in the group was ahead of yellow on time, but I can't imagine that those teams not represented are going to let these riders stay so far of the front.  At this point when the camera found them, Alice Maria Arzuffi (Ceratizit-WNT), Jeanne Korevaar (Liv Racing TeqFind), Celia Le Movel (St Michel-Auber-93) and Anouska Koster (Uno-X) were on the back of the group.  That doesn't necessarily mean that they were suffering.  The fourteen were working well together and they may well have just had their turn pulling on the front.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 3: Mass Sprint After All

It looked like there was the slimmest of chances that Julie Van De Velde (Fenix-Deceuninck) would pull off the upset on her solo break, but no, she was caught with about 150 meters to go.  The pace was driven by Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) in her Maillot Jaune leading out her teammate Lorena Wiebes (the European Champion).  Pushing the two was a resurgent Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma).  The stage went to Wiebes with Vos just missing and taking second.  Kopecky was third keeping both her Yellow and her Green Jerseys.  Chiara Consonni (UAE Team ADQ) and then Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) rounded out the top five on the stage.  So the only jersey to change hands was the Maillot a Pois.  Although it will be Wiebes borrowing the Maillot Vert from her teammate for the day in Stage 4.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 3, Still with a Chance

With just another three kilometers to race and the peloton thirty-two seconds back Julie Van De Velde (Fenix-Deceuninck) had a chance she might just get to the line first.  It is rare that the peloton full of sprinters let an opportunity for a mass sprint escape them, but Van De Velde was doing all she could to make that happen.  She had already claimed the right to be the one to start Stage 4 in the Maillot a Pois of best climber in the Tour de France Femmes (from her teammate), could she possibly also get the first stage win for her team?

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 3: Amassing Points

I am beginning to wonder if Alpecin-Deceuninck has decided that they will put a different teammate into the Maillot a Pois on every stage.  I guess the math wouldn't work for that.  The Queen of the Mountains at the start of the stage was Yara Kastelijn, but with this long solo break away, Julie Van de Velde was now the Queen virtually.  Since the Cote de Saint Robert is the final claim of the day, assuming she finishes the stage, the Polka Dot Jersey will change from her teammates shoulders to hers.  Now with a twenty-eight second lead on the peloton, can she also add a stage victory to her efforts today?

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 2: Getting the Stage, Not the Jersey

It was a tough final 500 meters to the line in Mauriac.  The rise up to the line meant you couldn't go too early or you would fad by the line.  Silvia Persico (UAE Team ADQ) was losing steam as Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) came up to the line.  Conversely, Liane Lippert (Movistar) in her German Champion's jersey had waited to the last moment to launch herself forward.  The risk paid dividends giving her the stage victory.  Given the time Kopecky had gained over the peloton yesterday, she was still in Yellow by almost a minute over Lippert.  Plus her second place here and her fourth in the intermediate sprint was enough to keep her in the lead in the sprint points competition as well.  That means that Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-Quick Step) will start tomorrow still wearing the Maillot Vert on loan from Kopecky.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 2: Attacking Yellow

I was amused that the woman in the middle, Lotte Kopecky (Jumbo-Visma), is the one who owns all three of the jerseys in this painting, but she is in the Maillot Jaune, those in second place in the other two competitions wear the Maillot a Pois and the Maillot Vert.  I doubt Kopecky will own all three at the end of the day.  Particularly if the attack by Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) sticks.  All of them were sloshing through the wet roads, but at least now the sun had come out.  Perhaps it would for her as well.  If not Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-Quick Step) was ready to jump both of them and go for the win in a mere three kilometers time herself.  With a small climb up to the finish it was going to take some strong legs to pull this one off.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 2: A Deal for Polka Dots

A few kilometers back the cameras caught Eva Van Agt (Jumbo-Visma) with her arm on Yara Kastelijn's (Fenix-Deceuninck) shoulder.  The two seemed to be scheming up some sort of deal.  Moments later Van Agt sprinted to the bonus points line without Kastelijn contesting for the maximum bonus.  Now with a look, Kastelijn jumped free of the other two to grab the maximum Queen of the Mountain points atop the Cote de Merihac.  Van Agt was shaking her head in amusement give the amount of effort her confidant put into the sprint for the points.  I can only wonder what Anouska Koster (Uno-X) was thinking about getting the one-two work over.

Jumping forward in time, Kastelijn lost control on a wet sharp corner in a roundabout and never caught back up to the other two.  She did manage to stay upright, which can not be said for Van Agt on the descent off of the climb in the rain.  She slid off the road and into a guardrail on the rain.  I don't know the extend of her injuries, but she did not finish the stage.  I do pray she is okay and will be back racing soon.  Sadly, if a rider doesn't finish a stage, or finish inside of the time limit on a stage, their race is over.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 2: Slow Motion Sprint

The main reason for the rather dispirited sprint was not the uphill rise to the line in Mauriac.  Rather, it was the fact that the current woman wearing the Maillot Vert of best sprinter, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-Quick Step) didn't jump out of the group to vie for sprint points with the Maillot Jaune on the shoulders of Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx-Protime).  In fact the only one to come out of the peloton with Kopecky was Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Uno-x).  The major points had been grapped by the three women up the road, but nevertheless this sprint increased Kopecky's lead in the sprint competition.

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Tour de Fance 23, Stage 21: Back Up to the l'Arc Triomphe

With the Maillot Blanc back in the peloton where he belongs, it was a great time for a counter move.  And Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), joined by Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) and Frederik Fison (Lotto-Dstny) did just that with just two laps left to race.  They quickly opened up a gap since they were not at threat to anyone except those that wanted to sprint for victory on the Champs Elysees.  This was the second time Fison had tried to flee the peloton.  Most likely, this attempt will not be anymore successful than the previous.  Still if you don't try you definitely won't succeed.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 21: Non-Traditional

This has been a very non-traditional Tour in many ways and today continued that pattern with the attack of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates).  He managed to lose the shadow of Nathan Van Hooydnock (Jumbo-Visma).  He was now joined by Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost).  Since they didn't have the Yellow Jersey on their team, they were willing to work with him in hopes of getting to the finish line before the peloton laced with sprinters.  At this point they still had thirty six kilometers to race, but their advantage had now dropped to six seconds.  Soon everything would be back to normal, but we would all remember the Tadej Pogacar was a very competitive bike racer, and a bit of a cheeky one, too.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 21: Chasing a Cheeky Move

While the early tradition of the final stage of the Tour were observed, others were not.  The team of the Maillot Jaune did not get a chance to ride around in a lap of honor before the racing began.  They did ride out of the Louvre and onto the circuit between the Place de la Concorde and the l'Arc Triomphe, but as they hit the Champs Elysees the racing began in earnest.  But the real shocker was when Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) went on the attack at the intermediate sprint.  And then having gotten the maximum points continued with his attack.  His move was covered by the teammate of the Yellow Jersey, Nathan van Hooydnock (Jumbo-Visma).  It was funny when Pogacar flicked his elbow to get the Jumbo man to pull through.  Naturally, there was no way he was going to help the man in second place try and steal time on his teammate, Jonas Vingegaard, who had the lead.  With forty seven kilometers of Champs Elysees laps to go, it isn't enough road to get the kind of gap he would need to take the lead, it does make sure we all know that he is still in the Tour and he still loves to race his bike.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 21: Escaping on the Champs Elysees

If one is not a great sprinter, the only way to beat the great ones is to get off the front in a break away.  Frederki Frison (Lotto-Dstny) picked up where his teammates had left off in previous stages.  He was joined by two others that have been in breaks this Tour, too.  Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) bridged up despite no more mountain points were on offer, and Krists Nielands (Israel-Premier Tech) was eager to try another break away himself.  The trio had opened up about ten seconds on the peloton but with another 52 kilometers of up and down the Champs Elysees, it was unlikely to be the move to foil the sprinters.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 21: Toasting the Team

While this Tour has been anything put normal, still some traditions must be upheld.  One of the classics on the final day of the Tour, long before reaching Paris, is for the team of the Yellow Jersey to sip some champagne as they pose for the press.  Jumbo-Visma brought all of their team through the Tour except for one.  Wout Van Aert had left just after his team leader, Jonas Vingegaard, had opened up a seven minute lead on the man sitting in second.  Of course, that was not why he went home, it was to get there in time for the birth of his son.  So it was seven who toasted towards the camera on each side of Vingegaard.  To his left was Sepp Kuss, who's crash almost took him out of the Tour yesterday, then Wilco Kelderman, and Dylan Van Baarle, going the other way are Nathan Van Hooydonck and Christophe Laporte.  Vingegaard may have won the Tour but he couldn't have done it without the entire team.  To prove it, the team also was the winning team in this Tour, and unusual feet for the team of the Maillot Jaune.

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