Tour de France Femmes (avec Zwift) (et avec spoilers)

[Mike_P]

First abandonment of the day Maeva Squiban (Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime) who of course I picked for my Velogames team on the strength of reading "At only 20, she has shown some potential in the Tour de Suisse with Final GC of 16. will try to get into breakaway to show what she can do", was 4 minutes off the back

 

[T4tomo]

If this is the crash where Marta got hit, the rider behind ( Aussie Nicole Frain?) has been in a bit of a Twitter storm for - allegedly - not slowing down and just trying to fly through a tiny gap in the bunch, and her post-race interview didn't help her case. Twitter as a whole was after her head, but I thought Adam Blythe's comments in their studio were fair; basically poor judgement, but understandable when you're chasing back on after a different crash, head down, and her view was obscured due to wheelsucking (a teammate I think?).

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nt3Oc_vEV4


Its about 1.38 into this, very hard to defend the Aussies actions

 

[Peter Salt]

First abandonment of the day Maeva Squiban (Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime) who of course I picked for my Velogames team on the strength of reading "At only 20, she has shown some potential in the Tour de Suisse with Final GC of 16. will try to get into breakaway to show what she can do", was 4 minutes off the back

That's 9 withdrawals already, and the 3rd stage just started, and they didn't get to the mountains yet. At this rate, everyone will make the top 100 Fingers crossed no crashes today.

 

[Peter Salt]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nt3Oc_vEV4


Its about 1.38 into this, very hard to defend the Aussies actions

I was giving her the benefit of the doubt - thinking she had her head down and just missed the situation entirely. But it looks as though in the post-race comments she said something along the lines of 'I saw a gap and thought I can squeeze through' which makes it 10x worse.

 

[Dogtrousers]

First abandonment of the day Maeva Squiban (Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime) who of course I picked for my Velogames team on the strength of reading "At only 20, she has shown some potential in the Tour de Suisse with Final GC of 16. will try to get into breakaway to show what she can do", was 4 minutes off the back

Serves you right for doing proper research and not just picking riders with interesting names.

 

[Peter Salt]

Rooting for Kasia today, but realistically expect AVV to start opening the (eventually) winning gap.

 

[T4tomo]

Serves you right for doing proper research and not just picking riders with interesting names.

I went with "Quinty Schoens" on that very basis

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[matticus]

View: https://twitter.com/petervdveen/status/1551679854294302720?t=it0pO_U2-KeasxhOYoJ1MQ&s=19

 

[cisamcgu]

Excellent stage, and a superb post-race interview from Uttrup "...yesterday was a f*cking sh*t day..."

 

[Peter Salt]

Any thought AVV's apparent sickness? Has the potential to flip the race on its head

 

[Dogtrousers]

Excellent stage, and a superb post-race interview from Uttrup "...yesterday was a f*cking sh*t day..."

TdFF promotors must have been jumping with joy at the result. "Go on, now for the interview!" (but in French). I doubt they were disappointed.


View: https://twitter.com/eurosport/status/1551942984622641154

 

[13 rider]

She certainly wears her heart on her sleeve none of this media safe speak just says it as she feels it . The race is certainly delivering

 

[Cathryn]

I have no WiFi in our Calais apartment but had just enough reception to see the result and HOW FLIPPING AWESOME! Can’t wait to watch the stage tomorrow when I have WiFi!!! I LOVE Cecilie, thrilled to bits for her!

 

[ColinJ]

I'm actually feeling pretty angry!

I wanted to catch up with the first 3 stages so I just went on Eurosport to watch them On Demand... A poxy 10 minutes for stage 1, 17 minutes for stage 2. I haven't watched stage 3 yet.

Stage 2 'highlights' apparently were the crashes, especially that horrible crash which they played over, but then they skipped virtually all of the racing.

The edits were so clumsy that nearly all of them took place in a commentator's mid-sentence. You want to talk about the race? Sorry, no time for that, let's quickly skip 10 km! Can we skip 20 km next time?

Oh, here comes the sprint. Well, at least that was good.

Phew we squeezed it all into less than 18 minutes! Do you think anybody will notice that we were just going through the motions...?

Exciting milliseconds of the next stage coming soon!

 

[Domus]

Always a soft spot for Cecilie. Full of enthusiasm, always a smile. Really pleased for her.