Women's Vuelta 2024

[fimm]

Let's have a thread - I can't be the only person following this, can I?

Anyone know why Canyon-SRAM only started with 5 riders? One was taken ill at short notice, I believe, but there should have been 7 of them.

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Impressive work by Lidl-Trek in the TTT only to nearly lose it on the last corner - Gaia Realini did a fine job of keeping her head and sprinting for the line. They've not done so well since.

EF are having a good race with two stage victories.

<Rant> poor coverage on the Discovery+ highlights for yesterday's stage (stage 4) - they basically showed the last hour of racing, and nothing of the crosswind action that led to the two groups on the road.

Today's stage is properly hilly, with a mountain top finish, so we will see who is really going to be in contention for the overall.

[alfapete]

You're not the only one following, but we were away at the beginning of the week so we're only just catching up with it all.

Delighted to see Demi back on form today and hope she can hold on after a moderate beginning to the season. Sadly will miss Saturday because of audax cooking duties in Chepstow.

Just looking through the GC, leading British rider is in 81st which is a bit disappointing. But Zoe Backstedt could win the Lanterne Rouge!

[Flite]

We don't have a subscription to watch since GCN folded, but I understand a GB rider, Flora Perkins, who I admit I had never heard of, was 8th on stage 2 and 5th on stage 3.

[fimm]

Well that was a good exciting race. 6 different winners from 5 different teams over 8 stages, which is good.

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Demi Vollering unsurprisingly took the overall - I can't see past her for the Tour and Giro as well. And Marianne Vos for a clean sweep of green jerseys too?
(My husband was surprised as Vos' 2nd stage win, given that it was a reasonably steep climb - but, even given the more similar parcours that women's races used to have, you don't get to win that many races by just being a good sprinter on the flat.)

[cygnet]

We don't have a subscription to watch since GCN folded, but I understand a GB rider, Flora Perkins, who I admit I had never heard of, was 8th on stage 2 and 5th on stage 3.

She was in the break at LBL too, that lasted until 10km to go.