Sprint Showdown In Siena! | Strade Bianche 2022 Women's Highlights

[@santiagobenites]

It was a huge win for Lotte Kopecky today! Not too many riders can challenge the dominance of Annemiek van Vleuten these days, but Lotte dug deep and did a fantastic job of getting the inside line into that last right hand bend and outmaneuvering Annemeik like that. It was a lot of fun to watch!

[@kyle_c936]

Not if you were pulling for Annemiek. :( Glad for Lotte though - she deserved it. :)

[@jerzykryszczynski4892]

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[@CentristRN]

Great racing! You know its freaking steep when it looks it on camera. Strong work by everyone.

[@braindrain8922]

Smart riding shutting the door on that last right hander 👍

[@Teeve01]

Awesome event to watch. And kopecky omg. So calm. So strong. Impressive

[@jk2302]

That is a wicked battle to the finish

[@steffenandersensahl9443]

Awesome race today. A true classic.

[@grzegorzrapacz674]

Brawo Kasia Niewiadoma !!!

[@RLucas82]

GO ASH!!!🥉 ❤🇿🇦

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Suuuuper race Indeed, l was happy to Watch the great adventure on TV what a show, yeah, what a landscape fans, what a wonderful wonder on earth, l can feel the olives fragrance only watching, the legendary Renaissance roads, they had to transport the Cararra marble blocks for Michelangelo to pull out his genius sculptures, cycling makes life worth living fans, never give up being so great, all cycling universe, you are suuuuper awesome guys 🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🍀🍀🍀💎💎✌️✌️🤗🤗🤗🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂👌👌💐💐💐💐💐💎💎💎💎🎂🎂🎂😍😍🎁🎁🎁🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💐💐💯💯🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🙋🙋🚴🚴🚴🚴💕💕💕👏👏❤️❤️🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🌹🌹🌹🌹🚴🚴🚴🎁🎁🎁🎁🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴💎💎✌️✌️🍀🍀🎉🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 long live cycling champions, Happy International Women Day March 8, wish you feel no sorry to celebrate it

[@dewolf8061]

I feel like Annemiek van Vleuten went too early, should've placed her attack in that steep street instead of the street before, because at the end, she didn't have the juice anymore to completely drop Kopecky and she was able to just hang on.

[@paulsolon6229]

Exciting

[@Wastl969]

Why is the women's race that much shorter than the men's? Has it got something to do with the races being on the same day, so it's just not possible from an organizational standpoint? Thx!

[@ibenrom]

I think it’s just because they’re women. In general not as strong as men with also lower average speeds which would result in way too long races

[@Wastl969]

@@ibenrom 'way too long' is a bit of a stretch. Given that the average speed today was 34 vs 39 kph, that's not that much of a difference. I admit, one could argue the women's average would be lower over the full 185km and 3000m of climbing. But that's beside the point. Marathons aren't shorter for women.

[@luke7561]

@@Wastl969 Fair point, so why do you think the reason is then?

[@kyle_c936]

@@Wastl969 You're right, in fact women ultimately can have more endurance than men - riders like Fiona Kolbinger, Lael Wilcox and Leah Goldstein (you can look them up) have won ultra-endurance cycle races outright against the men, so it's not that. And I think the time today, from your stats, would have been less than an hour longer, even allowing for the average speed being slower over the longer distance, so it's not that either. Currently the UCI limits women's road races to 160 km, although a couple years ago Lizzy Banks won an epic stage of the Giro Rosa (now Giro Donne), the women's Giro d'Italia, that stretched to 170 km (up a killer of a last climb, too - far, far longer than at Strade Bianche!) but the organisers were censured for it by the UCI - here's the finish: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5uXgoOGpLSIbck I think the reason is that until recently there hasn't really been the strength in depth in the women's peloton to support longer distances - there's a higher spread of abilities simply because there aren't the earnings to let a lot of the women train as full time well (enough) paid professionals would. For example, Annemiek van Vleuten has been going to Livigno in the Italian Alps for years to train at altitude and recently to Colombia in the winter - as a full-time pro cyclist she has the time and money to do so, although she still pays for it all herself. There's also a theory that the shorter distances make the women's races more intense and therefore entertaining - it's full-on from the get-go - certainly women's pro cycle races can be every bit as exciting as the men's, often more so, like at Strade Bianche and last week at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Still doesn't really answer your question but it's been quite heavily discussed and right now there just isn't the desire for it within the women's peloton. Women's pro cycling is on the up, though, and the distances might creep up correspondingly as the years go by.

[@paulsolon6229]

B c of sexism And wrongheaded men’s views of women’s athleticism

[@Idntrmmbryou]

AVV’s technique when out of the saddle scares me. Looks sloppy but still wins races with it.

[@guitarrerist698]

Its like she's going to fall off the bike but damn. The wattage she pulls put of that is indeed scary

[@daninhobrito6339]

Bravo Fábio iakobsom

[@sergiodemichele6295]

Strade Bianchi 😅😅😅

[@Stevehatesgravel]

Cycle racing as gone full circle from the early days racing on unmade roads basically gravel and back again

[@nstrug]

Yet again no commentary on Eurosport/GCN+. Until Brad pipes up after 15 minutes of helicopter noises.

[@whatwelearned]

There was commentary you're watching the wrong feed

[@nstrug]

@@whatwelearned I’m watching the one marked as ‘live now’ ‘includes live show’. Will try the other. Their UI is crap - why on Earth have multiple live versions of the same thing???

[@nstrug]

@@whatwelearned interesting, I switched to the other feed, no commentary, switched back to the first feed and commentary came on! Fuck knows what is going on.

[@kyle_c936]

@@nstrug Sometimes happens on Eurosport too - they're the same feeds, I think - it was ok for me today but sometimes you have to try the other feed to get commentary.

[@benhorsham3861]

@@nstrug I made the same mistake, so glad to see it was my fault and not gcn/eurosport making the mistake :)

[@whatwelearned]

This was great unlike the men's in which totally clean Pogacar is busy ruining everyone's fun.

[@lemao_squash4486]

Lmao cope, got any proof for Pog being roided? No?

[@whatwelearned]

@@lemao_squash4486 Did you have any proof of Lance doping before 2013? No? Bore off

[@scottbaker5851]

@@whatwelearned He failed a drug test in 1999. So those who really followed racing knew Armstrong was doped.

[@badhorse84]

[Kopetski] please stop pronouncing it in English

[@quinten04]

The commentator actually pronounced her name perfectly