Women's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2024

[vovanA 191]

  On 8/12/2024 at 10:13 AM, heywoodu said:

Still free from work so I might have gone there, but it's gonna be 30+ degrees today so I'll be hiding inside  

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I just noticed that only half of the route runs in France

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 8/12/2024 at 10:21 AM, vovanA said:

I just noticed that only half of the route runs in France

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And tomorrow there's a 67km stage  

 

Followed by, I kid you not, a 6km time trial  

 

Come on...

[heywoodu 15,353]

Most of all though I am curious about the first climb, the Maasdeltatunnel. Yes, that is a tunnel indeed. Roughly 500 meters at 0,5% for a grand total of 46,5 altitude meters and an actual mountain jersey point. They go down 26 meters under sea level and then go back up, basically  

Edited August 12, 2024 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,353]

And that's the stage win for Vas! @Vektor

[rybak 3,239]

Kasia Niewiadoma is leader of Tour de France  I'm hoping that she will keep form and will take a medal in Par... oh wait.......

[vovanA 191]

  On 8/15/2024 at 3:52 PM, heywoodu said:

And that's the stage win for Vas! @Vektor

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Finally she had some luck after she finished fourth at Olympics (twice already) and world championships

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

First ever  win in our domestic Tour 

[vovanA 191]

  On 8/16/2024 at 2:15 PM, De_Gambassi said:

First ever  win in our domestic Tour 

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I'm not an expert but she's just 16 seconds behind Niewiadoma in GC...

[Grassmarket 3,624]

  On 8/12/2024 at 11:11 AM, heywoodu said:

Most of all though I am curious about the first climb, the Maasdeltatunnel. Yes, that is a tunnel indeed. Roughly 500 meters at 0,5% for a grand total of 46,5 altitude meters and an actual mountain jersey point. They go down 26 meters under sea level and then go back up, basically  

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Pretty sure that a bridge has been a Mountain in the Men’s TdF before….maybe the one over the Seine in Normandy?

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 8/15/2024 at 5:02 PM, rybak said:

Kasia Niewiadoma is leader of Tour de France  I'm hoping that she will keep form and will take a medal in Par... oh wait.......

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Sadly her biggest chance was in Rio where she should have went with the Dutch break but didn't react and stayed with Deignan which was a big mistake. Even 8 years ago it was clear Holland is the team to stick with in these kind of situations.