Tour '24, Stage 19: Over the Top of the Tour

The Cime de la Bonette not only was a Haute Catagorie climb, it is also the highest point of this Tour de France.  With such a distinction, it also carried double King of the Mountain points to whomever went over first.  And a corresponding extra number of points for each following position over the top.  With Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) claiming the maximum points on this climb as well, he is now the virtual King of the Mountains.  He was followed over the top of the Tour by Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) and his teamate Wilco Kelderman.  Just tangling off of this trio is Cristian Rodriguez (Arkea-B&B Hotels).  They had dropped the main breakaway group of about another five guys.  Visma-Lease a Bike look like they have a plan to try and steal time back on the Maillot Jaune.  By putting these two guys off the front, their leader, Jonas Vingegaard has some helpers should he be able to get away from the peloton.  Will he attack on this climb?

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"Over the Top of the Tour TdF24-118" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Gent-Wevelgem 23, Women's Race: Opening Up a Gap

This trio of stars of the women's peloton used the first trip up the Kemmelberg to open up a bit of a gap on those still in the peloton.  It was Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) who seemed to glide up the cobbles with both Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) and Anna Hendersen (Jumbo-Visma) struggling to hold onto the Belgium's wheel.  With 52 kilometers to race it might be the move that wins the race.  Then again, the peloton might just get itself organized on the way back down the other side.

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Strade Bianche Donne 23: Off on Her Own

 

After the early attacks of the day and the requisite regrouping mid race, it was Karlijn Swinkels (Jumbo Visma) who went off the front before the final gravel sections of this famous race through Tuscany.  With 43 kilometers left to race, it wasn’t likely that her twenty second gap was going to be enough to carry the day.  I suspect that this move was more to put some pressure on others on behalf of her black and yellow clad teammates.

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Tour Femmes, Stage 6: Winning in Yellow

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Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) hasn't spent much time off the front of this Tour de France Femmes.  Even if she hasn't won a stage (she has) she has finished everyone in the top ten if not the top five.  Today she honored the Maillot Jaune today by winning in yellow.  She was able to out sprint Marta Bastianelli (UAE Team ADQ), Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx), Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) in her Rainbow Jersey, and the ever unzipped Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM).  The now official Maillot Vert, Lorena Wiebes had crashed on the final descent and finish the day over seven minutes behind Vos.  Naturally, she didn't score any green jersey points, so it goes back to Vos.  That means she will be back to wearing in on loan from the race leader.

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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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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 5: Keeping It Close

It is looking like Lorena Wiebes (DSM) and Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) will be sprinting against each other at every sprint point throughout the Tour de France Femmes.  The first four placings at the intermediate sprint in Charmes were taken by the break away (see the previous painting), but the next two placings had a two point differential.  In her Maillot Vert (on load from Vos) Wiebes got the better of Vos in her Maillot Jaune.  Trailing in the sprint points tally by over fifty points, Wiebes is going to have to get a few more riders behind her before Vos crosses the line behind her if she wants to claim the Green Jersey as her own.

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 4: Smoke Screen

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Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) used the final dusty section of gravel to split up the peloton.  With just eighteen kilometer left to go, it was a move that Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) had to take very seriously. Niewiadoma started the day in third over all just sixteen seconds off of the lead between here and the finale there is a possiblity of a total of thirteen bonus seconds between the bonus sprint and the finish line.  Liane Lippert (DSM) can barely be seen through the dust trying to stay with the two ahead of her.  The rest of the peloton can't be seen for all of the dust being kicked up by the race vechicles and the riders themselves.  I am thrilled that the motorcycles can be in front of the action to bring us all these scenes, but it does mean that they are kicking dust and grit into the riders' faces.  The top three places remain the same at the end of the day with the same time gaps.  With the exception of the Spanish Champion, Mavi Garcia (UAE Team ADQ) all of the GC contenders made it across the gravel with their positions and bodies intact.

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 3: Chasing Them Down

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This painting was a bit of a struggle.  Using helicopter shots provides a strange angle that is sometimes a bid difficult to get right.  You can see by the wheels that it took a few tries to get there, but I think I got there in the end.  Much can the same can be said of Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-SUEZ-Futuroscope).  The pair struggled to chase down the power group of escapees up the road that included the two women sitting second and third on the general classification.  But just like this painting, they got there in the end.  Vos was able to hold onto her Maillot Jaune, if fact, she increased her lead.  And I will let the next post show you just how well Cecilie did at the end in her new Danish Champion's Jersey.

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 2: Queen of the Tour

Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) goes one better than yesterday, winning stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes!  She had started the day just four seconds out of the Maillot Jaune, but with Lorena Wiebes finishing 29 seconds back, she is the new Queen of the Tour de France Femmes, the new Maillot Jaune.  The birthday girl Silvia Persico (Valco-Travel & Service) took second, putting her in second on the GC as well.  In fact each of the top five finishers today became the top five of the Tour Femmes.  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) who had opened the sprint took third with Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) finishing in fourth.  

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 2: Increasing Their Advantage

With just two kilometers left to race this rather power sextet was continuing to increase their lead over the erstwhile Maillot Jaune.  The group was being pulled (and urged) along by the Rainbow Jersey of Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) while her teammate Elisa Longo Borghini shelter at the back.  Between the Trek-Segafredo women was a former world champion, Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma), the young woman who started it all Maike Van Der Duin (Le Col-Wahoo).  On the Maillot Blanc's wheel is Katarzyn Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) and the birthday girl herself, Silvia Persico (Valcar-Travel & Service).  With forty one seconds on the chasers, the stage winner and probably the new Maillot Jaune was in this group.

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 2: Opening Up a Gap

After bridging up to the lone escapeof Maike Van Der Duin (Le Col-Wahoo) the world champion Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) turns round to see who had come with her.  The answer was Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) and others.  More on that later.  The group quickly built up and advantage on the peloton that contained the Maillot Jaune, the Maillot Vert, and the Maillot a Pois.  The Maillot Blanc was looking over at the Rainbow Jersey.  I suspect that Van Der Duin was a bit awed to be joined by both Balsamo and Vos.  The rider back there from BikeExchange-Jayco never did make it across the divide.

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 1: Sprinting First

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As the peloton came up the Champs Elysees where the first intermediate sprint would take place, it was Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) jumping out to win the first Maillot Vert points of the Tour de France Femmes.  She succeeded in out sprinting Lorena Wiebes (DSM) for maximum points.  With another intermediate sprint and of course the sprint for stage honors, I am sure the two will be facing each other again today, and most likely for the week to come.

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Gent-Wevelgem Women '22: I Shouldn't Have Looked

The theory is that if a sole break away rider looks back over their shoulder it means that they are starting to lose steam.  As they look, they are either hoping that someone is coming to join them in the effort, or wondering if they have the legs to hold off the fast closing peloton.  Unfortunately, it was the latter for Grace Brown (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquintaine Futuroscope).  As she looked behind, she could see the all out efforts of Riejanne Markus (Jumbo-Visma) and the break away killer for the day, Ellen Van Dijk (Trek-Segafredo).  All day whenever a group need to be pulled back for her team leader, it was Van Dijk that would hit the front of the chasing group.  As soon as she did, that was the end of the chances of any group of escapees.  Earlier she had been called back from a group of escapees just to bring her teammates back into contention.  She did.

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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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Paris Roubaix Femmes: Closing In

Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) jumped free of everyone behind her and went in search of the one woman who has been off the front all day long. Vos quickly pulled a minute back on Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo), but with 12 kilometers left to the Velodrome, she wasn’t able to get any closer to the former world champion (she is a three time former champion herself).  I was worried for Deignan, but Vos wasn’t ever able to close the gap.  She can consul herself with taking second place in the first ever Paris Roubaix Femmes.  

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Amstel Gold Women - Coming Good

I admit that I thought Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma Women) was cooked on the final climb of the Cauberg.  Clearly I was wrong.  While there were two women off the front, Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) they spent too much time trying to out fox each other that they ended up giving their chance for a win away.  Instead it was Marianne Vos out sprinting them all for the win.  She spent a moment of panic thinking she may have celebrated too soon.  It was a fast closing Demi Vollering (SD Worx) who almost closed the gap with her bike lunge.  Amanda Spratt (BikeExchange) missed the podium finishing fourth.  Elisa Longo Borghini could only hold on for eighth and thinking what might have been.  And she has to surrender her points jersey in the bargain.  Although it will be no shame in pulling back on her Italian tricolore of National Champion.

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Amstel Gold Women - Queen of the Cauberg

The last time the Amstel Gold was raced (it was canceled in 2020 like so many other things in all of our lives) it was Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon SRAM) who went away for the win on the Cauberg.  She was hoping to repeat her victory with the same tactic.  It appeared to be working as Marianne Vos (Jumbo Visma Women) dropped her head seemingly unable to keep up with the former Polish Champion.  Behind the WWT points leader, Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) did her best to cover the attack.  The first time I painted Niewiadoma was in the UCI Road World Championships here in Richmond, VA way back in 2015.  She was attacking the front of the race then, too.

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