Not sure whether there's a thread already...
Looks like the ramp is back in place...
I'm watching on GCN+ but there's no commentary!
Great start by Evie to get right at the sharp end, after the first 5 or 6 riders had passed that start climb it looked a right mess and completely blew the field apart. Kate courtney was bang last I think !
Evie Richards currently running 5th
Looks like it's rained or they dampened down yesterdys dust
carnage on some sections!
Ah, someones remembered to open the commenentators mic channels!
Big f++k up by PFP
Big whoops by Prevot!
This race could be won and lost by staying on your bike today. Annoyed the wooden ramp is back, some of the girls can jump it!
Looks like it’s rained or they dampened down yesterdys dust
Think it’s rained as also wet at the Tri. And the edge of a typhoon was due to come in.
Still didn’t need the ramp! Looks like it’s gonna be a tough day out-course is a different beast in the damp.
Hard to get going again from that
Evie up to 2nd
What happened to Courtney? BBC commentary crap, as usual.
Evie looks like the only one who's not slipping and struggling in the mud! Channel your inner Pidcock Evie!
it rained heavily overnight apparently
Hope Neff hasn’t gone off too quickly.
@john_l big messy scramble at the first start hill and she just got swallowed up in the bundle, the top 5 had bolted.
Eurosport just slo-moed Neff totally screwing up MvdP's drop and somehow nose rolling it out !!!!
Yeah, looked like Jolanda got caught out by PFP going so slowly!
She certainly has the skills to pay the bills. If Richards doesn’t win, I’d be happy to see Neff take it.
Matthieu should have entered the women's race.
The fact that Lecomte is 40s back - does that suggest the pace is too high and it'll gradually come back?
Girls out jumping MvdP 🙂
@theotherjonv you might be right I reckon. Evie looks like she is struggling now a bit. Impressive if Neff can hold out. I reckon it's gonna close back up again.
Amazing ride from PFP!
Just nice to see someone other than Lecomte at the front.
So, they literally added insult to (MvdP’s) injury by putting the ramp back for the women 🙁
Commentary still woeful...
This course has completely changed in the wet. I reckon it'll have to be a big crash for Neff to lose this - 45" gap after only 2 laps is massive!
It's not as if they can't ride the technical sections so they can't be losing too much time on them, so it's effort being expended up those climbs.
- but just seen another lap split and she's still riding away.
There's some nasty sniper roots peaking out in places... Someone could have a big one quite easily.
Didn't realise the 'rear cluster' has 'chainrings'
Commentary is just embarrassing.
over a minute now......wow.
Is it just me, or does Jolanda have something stuck to her downturn?
Downtube? She's carrying a bottle currently which some of them don't do given the short course, just splash and dash in the feed zone.
Downtube yes, bloody autocorrect!
No, I don't mean bottlecage - it could just be mud on the outside of the downtube
there's a mud thing on the downtube, apparently to stop too much mud building up. at least that how it was described in the WC commentary
It’s a saw tooth type structure. They’ve been using them on the wold cup circuit too. Supposedly stops mud building up on the underside of the downtube.
Ah, thanks
Looks like some brutal climbs on there.
Glad to see droppers are now a thing.
I was also wondering what the jagged downtubes were about.
commentators got one thing right......just watched the Goldilocks Trek advert in the ad break and it is quite funny....
If Evie isn't going to win, then I'm happy for Jolanda to do so, just for the Goldilocks advert... 🤣 Oh, and the fact she is absolute machine!
I hadn’t realised that the BBC was using the same feed with the same commentary as Eurosport.
Impressive dominance by the Swiss so far.
Swiss 1-2-3
Did they get something on set up right that others missed, eg: tyre change for the weather?
They just look really slick, they will be one of the best "teams" in terms of prep, bike setup, etc. Even their pit guys dishing the bottles out look really slick!
