Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 7: No Escape

Despite attack after attack going in the opening kilometers of the penultimate stage of the Tour de France Femmes, no one was being allowed to escape the peloton.  It felt like every time we saw the front of the group it was another Lidl-Trek woman attempting to launch off the front.  This time it is Lizzie Deignan going for another try with Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma) and the rest of the peloton covering her move.  At this point it had been eleven kilometers of attacks, catches, and counter attacks, over and over, and still no one was off the front.  With two big climbs awaiting the roughly 140 still in the Tour de France Femmes, I thought they would have been happy to let a small group go so they could approach the back half of a hard, hard stage a bit more easily.

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Tour Femmes, Stage 6: Using the Final Climb

Marie Le Net (FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope) had missed the attempt to get away on the rpevious descent so she went on the final climb of the day, the Cote de Boersch.  Her moved was covered again by Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma), but Joscelin Lowden (Uno-X) didn't have the legs for this move.  It probably didn't matter much, the peloton had closed to almost twenty seconds.  With ten kilometers left to race, it was looking like even these few remaining members of the break away's day had come to an end.  Just behind Lowden you should be able to make out the blue motorcycle (wait, isn't that a cocktail?) of Shimano Neutral Sevice ready to lend a wheel should it be necessary.

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 6: Exploiting a Descent

Both Christine Majerus (SD Worx) and Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma) use the descent of top of an uncategorized climb to distance the remnants of the early break.  Majerus looks back at Henderson from her aero tuck, just checking to see if Anna had the nerve to fly down the descent.  She shouldn't have worried, the Jumbo-Visma rider came to cycling from downhill skiing, she loves to go down hills fast.  While Majerus' position looks odd, it is safer than the now banned super-tuck.  However this one does kind of put one's butt up in the air.  I am just thinking now that it reminds me of a cat that is very happy with being petted.  Regardless, it does make her far more aerodynamic than Henderson's position on the bike.

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Gent-Wevelgem Women '22: Are We Waiting?

These leading four women had build up about 15 seconds on the peloton, but were debating whether they should way for three more trying to get on to their wheels.  Liane Lippert (DSM) looked back to see just how close the chasers were as Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon SRAM) took a swig from her waterbottle.  They, along with Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) and Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma), decided it would be best to wait for three more in hopes of strengthening their chances of staying off the front.  Alas, it was the wrong decision.  Their delay was enough to give hope to the Trek-Segafredo lead chase from the peloton.

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Gent-Wevelgem Women '22: A Slim Advantage

With another 55 kilometers to race, Annad Henderson (Jumbo-Visma), Lotte Kepecky (SD Worx) and Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon SRAM) were building a very slim lead on the chasing peloton.  They had built up a gap of just six seconds.  Not much of an advantage, nor was it enough to keep others from bridging across to the four leaders.

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Women's Omloop: Building a Gap

Using the climb of the Elverenberg-Vossenhol, this quartet got off the front of the peloton.  As she had on the previous climb, Ellen Van Dijk (Trek-Segafredo) lead the other up the climb including Liane Lippert (DSM), Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma) and the Swiss Champion, Marlen Reusser (SD Worx).  With 30 kilometers left to race they had built up a 27 lead over the chasers, and their advantage over the peloton was continuing to climb.

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