Grande Boucle/Giro del Trentino/Zeeuwsche Eilanden 2009
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Will1985
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Vos won the 4th stage ahead of Soeder and Bruins. Emma Pooley came in 3 seconds down to win the GC by 22 seconds over teammate Soeder.
Pooley - GC
Vos - Young rider
Vos Soeder - Points
Wloszczowska - Mountains
Pooley - GC
Vos - Young rider
Wloszczowska - Mountains
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Marianne Vos has won the final stage of this year's Boucle, and Emma Pooley has taken the GC. On the first climb of the day, Vos pulled ahead with Pooley, Christiane Soeder, Regina Bruins and Maja Wloszczowska. Wloszczowska crossed the top first. Behind them, Elena Berlato, Giorgia Bronzini, Tina Liebig, Noortje Tabak, Aleksandra Dawidowicz, Inga Cilvinaite and Paula Gorycka chased but were unable to make contact again. With the help of Soeder and Bruins, Pooley managed the descents OK. Wloszczowska crested the second climb in first, securing the mountains classification, and continued to take the following climbs. Despite being three at the finish, Cervélo did not contest the final sprint, which Vos won.
Pooley's winning margin at the end of the tour is 22 seconds from Soeder, with Vos third at 34 seconds. Vos also takes the hot spots and young rider classifications, while Soeder takes the points. Wloszczowska wins the mountains classification with a comfortable margin from Pooley. Besides Pooley's overall victory and Soeder's second place and points victory, plus three stage wins between them, Cervélo also take the teams classification.
It's great for Pooley to win, but it's a bit of a shame that this year's race could well be remembered as the Grande Boucle-lite, even by the standards of recent years. Out of all the years to win this race, this one wouldn't be the first choice. Still, she has demonstrated her strength regardless. Let's hope that next year's race - pencilled in for six days - sees a return to last year's format and the beginning of a gradual rebuilding of the race's stature.
Edit: Will got there while I was writing ^^^ - thanks for the update.
Pooley's winning margin at the end of the tour is 22 seconds from Soeder, with Vos third at 34 seconds. Vos also takes the hot spots and young rider classifications, while Soeder takes the points. Wloszczowska wins the mountains classification with a comfortable margin from Pooley. Besides Pooley's overall victory and Soeder's second place and points victory, plus three stage wins between them, Cervélo also take the teams classification.
It's great for Pooley to win, but it's a bit of a shame that this year's race could well be remembered as the Grande Boucle-lite, even by the standards of recent years. Out of all the years to win this race, this one wouldn't be the first choice. Still, she has demonstrated her strength regardless. Let's hope that next year's race - pencilled in for six days - sees a return to last year's format and the beginning of a gradual rebuilding of the race's stature.
Edit: Will got there while I was writing ^^^ - thanks for the update.
Thanks will & Skip. Well done to Pooley. Her first multi-stage race win ? Concur with your thoughts regarding the quality of this race. Let us hope next year it is back up to 6 or even 8 days as Boue must have hoped for this year. Was it UCI listed ? I know in one years after the legal battle over the use of the name, he decided not to go for UCI accreditation on the race.
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She did win the Tour de Bretagne last year (and two stages, I think) but obviously this is a more significant victory.resal1 said:
This year, yes. I do remember reading some stuff Boué wrote last year about his frustration with the UCI insisting on it remaining a 2.2 event when he wanted it ranked 2.1. I think that is what he was talking about anyway, I don't recall perfectly.
Edit - I found the quote:
[/SIZE]Pierre Boué][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]I hope the UCI will cease making fools of themselves in keeping our race ranked as a 2.2 event. The reality is that many of the races ranked 2.1 in the UCI calendar do not share the quality of our parcours said:
Flying_Monkey
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And Nicole Cooke took Trentino - a great couple of days for British cycling. I'm more excited about Pooley though - she is easily my favourite female cyclist.
Keith Oates
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Should be interesting next week when they are competing for the British title!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will1985
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I'm disappointed that the BBC has failed to report this. Cooke had her 2007 win covered by the Sunday late afternoon, and not just a little 5 liner either. Anyone who doesn't keep up with cycling would think that Cooke is the only British female cyclist - she wouldn't have won anything last year if it wasn't for the help of teammates.
I'm half tempted to go to Abergavenny to support Emma (plus one of my friends riding as U23) - it's about time a different name appeared on the honours list.
I'm half tempted to go to Abergavenny to support Emma (plus one of my friends riding as U23) - it's about time a different name appeared on the honours list.
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If anyone gets Canal Sport+ with their television package, you will be able to see an hour of highlights (edit - of the Grande Boucle) tomorrow at 2200 CET. It is also listed for Friday at 0745 and on Sunday at 2245. It is not clear whether these all show different stages; more likely is that each showing is the same highlights of all four stages, just repeated through the weekend.
