By propular request here's a thread purely for Womens Cycling! This thread will now also be known as TMM's Home and Every Thread of the Week ever again!
Here's a list of World Cup races, the premier level of the Womens sport.
In the January the Women are also racing in San Luis as per usual but more importantly a first ever Womens Tour Down Under between the 17th and 20th of January. Headline names include the Orica-AIS team with Hoskins, the Building Champions squad with Neylan, Roxsolt with Cromwell, Wiggle Down Under with Bronzini as part of a high quality peloton.
CDM stands for "Coppa del Mondo" in Italian, which in French, first UCI language, can be translated into "Coupe du monde", which in English stands for "World Cup".
matt17br wrote:
CDM stands for "Coppa del Mondo" in Italian, which in French, first UCI language, can be translated into "Coupe du monde", which in English stands for "World Cup".
The World Cup races are usually broadcast somewhere. Things like La Course, Friends Life Tour and other big races or those paired with high end HC or WT events are also broadcast. Google really is your friend
I saw the highlights of the Geelong (Mitchellton Bay?) race earlier this year on TV and the track WCs last year, but other international women's events probably won't be covered over here. It's good to see a growing number of women's events and people following them.
Update on San Luis: Stephens wins the ITT, but it really was not a good TT field. Going up to Mirador del Potrero tomorrow should decide the GC. My guess would be one of the Brazilians to take the GC win but San Luis is such a crapshoot who knows. Final stage hopefully goes to Barnes again.
Katie Hall surprised me there to win up to Mirador, was convinced it would be a Brazilian. But it is a Brazilian leading the GC now so i should get that guess right. UHC now with 3 stage wins in 5 stages and should get 1 more
First ever Womens Starde Bianche route confirmed. 103km in a similar style to the mens race. Departs and finishes in the same place as the mens race and will run on the same day roughly 90mins ahead of the mens event. No idea on a startlist yet but expect the big names like Armistead, Ratto, Ferrand-Prevot etc.
Alison Tetrick, Optum, put in a great crit ride to win the final stage of the Tour Femenino de San Luis. Hannah Barnes won the main sprint for 3rd place. Jamildes Fernandes took some bonus seconds to secure her GC win. Tetrick elevated herself to 5th place whilst Hall in 4th and Stephens in 2nd made it a great race for Americans and American teams. Overall your standard San Luis fare being won by an in form south american
Next up on the womens calendar is the Womens Tour Down Under, very excited for that one!
Edited by TheManxMissile on 16-01-2015 20:13
Valentina Scandolara (Orica-AIS) attacked well and won the first race of the Womens TDU. Unfortunately PCS coverage of Womens Cycling is on par with most media so f*ck all to post from there, luckily the TDU site is ok. Hoskins and Gunnewijk finished 3rd and 4th to get 3 Orica ladies in the top5.
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