Showing posts with label time bonus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time bonus. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Tour Femmes '22, Stage 4: On Her Own


Marlen Reusser (SD Worx) used her time trial skills to ride away from every woman still in the Tour de France Femmes.  With nine kilometers to go she had build up a forty one seconds on the three who were trying to get across to her.  She has just over a minute on the group that contains the Maillot Jaune and all of the other high up on the general classification.  She has just gone through the time bonus point out on course.  So while she isn't a GC factor, she just took three seconds off of her total time thus far in the Tour.  She is riding alone save the race referee's car, the Shimano neutral service, and just visible is one of a flotilla of race motorcycles.  I can't image anyone catching her now, she is adding to her advantage with nearly every pedal stroke on her wasy to Bar sur Aube.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Paris Nice Stage 2: Racing for Seconds

John Degenkolb (Giant Alpecin) is sitting just six seconds back from the Maillot Jaune having picked up the three second bonus from the first intermediate sprint of the stage.  Now he is fighting with Michael Matthews (Orica GreenEdge) for the best of the rest (the solo break is still out in front at this point).  Matthews is just behind the big German and doesn't want to concede any more time than he has to.  It is a surprise to see Degenkolb contesting the intermediate sprints, his teammate, Marcel Kittel, left them to the other sprinters in the last Tour de France.  I guess it isn't a team wide strategy to only go for stage wins.

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