Tour Femmes '22, Stage 7: On to the Final Climb

This group has been hanging out in the middle of the leader's and the group of the Maillot Jaune for kilometers.  It was nice to see Urska Zigart (BikeExchange-Jayco) dangling off of a leading group rather than the back of the peloton.  Her riding position implys she isn't comfortable around her fellow riders.  It seems she should just go on a solo raid since she is spending the entire Tour de France Femmes riding in the wind anyway.  She was keeping close to Silvia Persico (Valcar-Travel & Service), Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope) as they sextet swung onto the road that will take them up the Grand Ballon.  Zigart moved up 43 places due to her efforts on the day, she still sits 46th on the general classification.  Persico is riding to hold onto her third place over all.  If she can't catch the two up the road, she will slide down a bit.  She did slide to sixth. I was still trying to figure out if Muzic was riding for her team leader, or the other way round.

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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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Ronde Van Vlaanderen Women '22: Two North Americans in Europe

The idea was to imitate the classic film title, "An American in Paris."  I'm not too sure I succeed with the title, but so it goes.  Olivia Baril (Valcar-Travel & Service) and Clara Honsinger (EF Education-TIBCO -SVB) are both from North American, Baril a Canadian, and Hosinger calls the United States home.  The pair had dropped their break away companions on the previous climb as they continued to hold nearly a minute and a half on the closing peloton.  With 65 kilometers left to race it was looking good for the duo, but I believe they still have a least five climbs yet to tackle.

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Ronde Van Vlaanderen Women '22: From the Beginning

This quartet had gotten off the front of the peloton from nearly kilometer zero.  With 160 K to race, staying off the front was going to be a challenge.  However, with the race almost half way done, Maria Martins (Le Col-Wahoo), Sofie Van Rooijen (Parkhotel-Valkenburg), Olivia Baril (Valcar-Travel & Service), and Clara Honsinger (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB) they still had over two minutes behind.  At this point they were climbing the Wolvenberg which may mean the peloton will close on them quickly.

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Paris Roubaix Femmes: Not the Best Debut for the Rainbow

 

Last week Elisa Balsamo (Valcar-Travel & Service) was winning the UCI Road World Championship, today, bedecked in her brand new rainbow jersey she was sliding through the mud in the Hell of the North.  Balsamo, was in the middle of the group chasing the lone leader when she fishtailed in the mud of Section 11 of pave, the Mons en Pevele.  She had braked a little too hard to avoid another rider going down just ahead of her.  With all of the wet mud on the rough cobblestones, it was to hard for her to keep her bike upright.  It was that much worse as she slid to a stop in a soggy mud puddle.  It could have been much worse, the road surface is very, very painful fall onto at speed.  She wasn’t hurt, but lost the wheels of the chase group and I never saw her on camera again.

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