Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: One More Minute

Using what is now becoming obviously the winning stradegy, the Italians Vittoria Guazzini (the new U23 Women's Time Trial Champion) and Elisa Longo Borghini (the current World Road Champion - at least until Saturday) are inside the final kilometer with just about a minute left to get to the finish line in the Mixed Team Relay.  As strong as they were, they didn't quite have enough speed to better the time of their Swiss adversaries.  They came home just under three seconds behind the Swiss team for the Silver Medal.  Their time did knock the Australians into the Bronze medal position with just two other teams to finish behind them.  Coincidentally, they were the Netherlands and Germany, the only two teams to have ever won this event thus far.  The Netherlands had poor luck losing Bauke Mollema to a mechanical problem and then Annemiek Van Vleutin to a rather frightening crash just as she rolled down the start ramp.  Despite their misfortune, they did manage a fifth place today.

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Wollongong 2022, Women's ITT: Young & Fast

Vittoria Guazzini (Italy) will now be the first woman under the age of 23 to claim a Rainbow Jersey as the first U23 Women's Individual Time Trial Champion.  Unlike the men's races, the women competed together at the same time in both the Elite and the U23 classifications.  So when Guazzini came to the line she was in the postion to win the Bronze Medal in the Elite race.  That is until the last woman on the road crossed the line in first place.  While it did knock her off of the podium of the elite women, it still meant that she was the new (and first) champion of the Women's U23 Individual Time Trial.  Chapeau!

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 8: Thanks

Antri Christoforou (Human Powered Health) reaches out in her Cyprus Champion's jersey to tap her thanks to her teammate, Nina Buijsman, for helping her chase back onto the group with the Maillot Jaune at the bottom of the Ballon d'Alsace.  She joins Alena Amialiusik (Canyon/SRAM), Evita Muzic and Vittoria Guazzini (FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope) and of course the woman in yellow herself, Annemiek Van Vleutin.  They all had just one more obstacle today, getting up to the top of the La Super Blanches des Belle Filles.  That was going to be no easy task on the eighth day of racing.  Who will still be with the Maillot Jaune at the top?

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Tour Femmes '22, Stage 4: Solving It Together

I learned today that the women only have one team car (instead of two like the men) following the race.  This means their race mechanics can be a long, long way back.  Yesterday's stage winner Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope) was fortunate to have her teammate, Vittoria Guazzini, with her when she got a f;rat rear tire. The FDJ duo quickly swapped wheels and Ludwing got back into the race.  Apparently, the mechanics had the foresight to supply each rider with the necessary allen wrench to pull the through axle to allow the wheel change to happen.  Guazzine was helped shortly after getting her team leader back in the race by the Shimano neutral service moto.  It was a bit frustrating for the duo to watch the Shimano car go past them.  It has been a very chaotic stage with so much going on, the driver can be excused for not seeing Guazzini trying to wave them down.  Ludwig just kept working on her bike.  Time was of the essence.

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