Tour Femmes '22, Stage 7: The Girl in the Middle

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) was stuck unable to catch up to Annemieke Van Vleutin (Movistar) but then those behind weren't able to catch her either.  As she went over the top of the Grand Ballon, she was just over two minutes behind the stage winner, but she can take some comfort in being the next Queen of the Mountains and moving up into second place over all.  She is three and a quarter minutes behind the new Maillot Jaune, but tomorrow will be an even harder day, the ends both the stage and the Tour on the top of Super Planches des Belles Filles. Conversely, she only has a minute and three quarters on the woman sitting in third. When she reached the top and hugged her parents it was looking like she was totally spent.  It all comes down how well she and Van Vleutin can recover tonight.  

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Liege Bastogne Liege '22: Trying to Get Across

It is hard for me to believe that I am this deep into the season and this is the first time I have painted a member of the Bora-Hansgrohe squad.  Alexandr Vlasov sprung free of the chasing greatly reduce peloton in hopes of getting up to the lone leader.  The Russian rider managed to get within thirty seconds of Evenepoel, but that was a close as he got.  Behind the chase group finally got organized and pulled him back into the fold.  His effort meant he didn't have the legs to compete for the final two steps of the podium.  After all, no one was going to see Evenepoel until the press scrum on the other side of the finishing line in Liege.  Side note, whenever riders' names are shown on screen their national flags are displayed by their name and team initials.  However, in the case of Vlasov, the race orgainzers are refusing to display the flag of Russia, so a white rectangle is all that appears.  Clearly we know who they feel about Russia's invasion of Ukraine (as do I).

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