#Clara Emond

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Tour de France Femmes begins Monday!

After the long pause from the 2024 Paris Olympics (which has been pretty great, tbh) we finally begin the Tour de France Femmes on Monday, August 12!

We're looking at eight stages, with the riders rolling out from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where they will spend most of three days on 2.5 stages around Rotterdam. We say 2.5 stages, because Tuesday features two different stages, a short sprint stage and then an evening time trial. We don't know how we feel about these types of stages, but at least it will showcase different riders' talents.

Stage 4 on Wednesday will see the riders cross into Belgium and travel parts of the routes for Amstel Gold Race and Liege-Bastogne-Liege, including the famous hills like the Cauberg and the Cote de la Roche-aux-Faucons. And then finally, on Thursday, the Tour de France actually reaches France, and we will see increasingly mountainous stages that should determine the general classification, including finales on Le Grand-Bornand and the infamous Alp d'Huez.

As for GC, the odds-on favorite has to be defending TdFF champ Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), who as we have said this year, is the best climber and stage-racer in the world right now. Cycling News has a great run-down for the other challengers, however, which we recommend.

It will be interesting to see how other strong teams like Canyon-SRAM and Lidl-Trek can put SD Worx under pressure. We've seen that in the Tour de Suisse and it can be done, but frankly, Vollering is so dominant right now that she might still win even if she's isolated on half the stages. She is just that good. Keep an eye on riders like Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM) or Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) as possible spoilers, and definitely contenders for the podium.

We honestly don't know how the fight for the points jersey will go, and we're excited to see how that plays out across the stages. Defending green jersey wearer Marianne Vos (Visma Lease-a-Bike) will want to repeat, but she'll have some serious competition from Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), who is still the fastest pure sprinter in the world and has shown she can get over the hills remarkably well. We'd love to see Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) back to winning ways after being off the bike due to injury.

We are less optimistic about the competition for the polka-dot jersey, and think it will likely be swept up by the GC winner. But that isn't always the case, like in the Giro this year, and we'd love to see some breakaway action and a non-GC rider try to hold onto that jersey.

We also expect several teams to hunt stages and keep several of the stages entertaining. EF-Oatly-Cannondale has been on a rampage this year, scooping up stages in the Vuelta Feminina and the Giro d'Italia Women, and they have the firepower to do it again with Alison Jackson, Kim Cadzow, Clara Emond, or Kristen Faulkner. Another team to watch is AG Insurance-Soudal, which has options in Tour Down Under champ Sarah Gigante, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, and Giro mountains classification winner Justine Ghekiere.

And finally, we expect to be surprised! We'd love to see a new talent announce herself on the biggest stage of the season, that's part of what we love about bike racing. This year's course is less likely to be an SD Worx show like last year (5 out of 8 stages), particularly with Lotte Kopecky not on the start list, so we are looking forward to some surprise moves and performances that will keep the racing interesting all the way to the top of Alp d'Huez!

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The Gilded Age's Broadway Divas: Clara Barton (Linda Emond)

Based on the real-life historical figure, Clara Barton spends half of season one drumming up money to get her field hospital operational. Presumably she is off doing important work during season two while all the ladies piddle, twiddle, and resolve about the opera.

I will be honest. I know Linda Emond primarily for her straight play work, so I was wholly unfamiliar with her singing until making this series. And now that I'm listening to it, I'm a little in love. As is often the case for me. But I digress.

Linda Emond is a three-time Tony nominee for her work in Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), and Life (x) 3 (Inez). The 2014 Cabaret revival did not receive a cast album (probably owing to Alan Cumming reprising his role) so there is no recording of Linda singing "So What?" and I'm furious about it.

#1: "Yours, Yours, Yours," & "Compliments," 1776 (1997)

Linda Emond made her Broadway debut as Abigail Adams in the 1997 revival of 1776. As one of two female characters in the show, Abigail appears sporadically, writing letters to her husband and generally being an encouraging wife to this founding father. Eventually, Linda was replaced by Carolee Carmello (who, according to a Facebook comment, couldn't even get an audition for Gilded Age, and that's a crime unto itself).

Another Gilded Age actress who has placed Abigail Adams, though not in 1776, is Donna Murphy, who voiced this character on the Liberty Kids show we all know and love.

#2: "He Always Comes Homes to Me," John Kander – Hidden Treasures, 1950-2015 (2015)

I need you to understand what a deep cut this is. The Kander Hidden Treasures album features nearly fifty tracks, most consisting of demos with Kander himself laying down the songs. It is a marvel of a CD set for those of us who love the theatre, and includes a 64-page booklet with detailed notes about each song. In it, a select few songs have been newly recorded. Linda Emond appears on one from a show called All About Us.

And now I need to go on a tangent about this show. A musical based on Thorton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, it held its first workshop in 1996 with Debra Monk (hello, Miss Armstrong) and Bernadette Peters in the cast, and later moved to staging in 1999 with Linda Emond, and Bebe Neuwirth as Sabina (a role originated in the play by Tallulah Bankhead). However, shortly before it opened, Bebe was fired and replaced by Sherie Rene Scott. I have no details about why or how or what they were thinking, but back in those days, people only saw her as the "frigid" Lilith on Cheers, and I need to stop before poor Linda Emond's post becomes just a five paragraph tirade in defense of Bebe Neuwirth.

At any rate, the musical was abandoned in 2004 following Fred Ebb's death, and though it had a brief resurgence in 2007 with Eartha Kitt and Karen Ziemba, it has since largely disappeared. But thanks to this recording, we have at least some of the music.

LINK TO MASTERPOST

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Season 1 recurring actors who are not listed as recurring for Season 2 include some familiar characters: Jeanne Tripplehorn as Sylvia Chamberlain, Katie Finneran as Anne Morris, Amy Forsyth as Carrie Astor, John Sanders as architect Stanford White, and Linda Emond as Clara Barton.

WOW okay.

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Lodge 49 -  AMC -  August 6, 2018 - Present

Comedy Drama (10 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Wyatt Russell as Sean "Dud" Dudley

Brent Jennings as Ernie Fontaine

Sonya Cassidy as Liz Dudley

Linda Emond as Connie Clark

David Pasquesi as Blaise St. John

Eric Allan Kramer as Scott Wright

Recurring

Kenneth Welsh as Larry Loomis

Avis-Marie Barnes as Anita Jones

Njema Williams as Big Ben Peters

Jimmy Gonzales as Gil Sandoval

Brian Doyle-Murray as Bob Kruger

Daniel Stewart Sherman as Jeremy

David Ury as Champ

Atkins Estimond as Gerson

Hayden Szeto as Corporate

Joe Grifasi as Burt

Tom Nowicki as Bill Dudley

Adam Godley as Jocelyn Pugh

Bruce Campbell as Gary Green

Tyson Ritter as Avery

Jocelyn Towne as Gloria Keller

Pollyanna McIntosh as Clara (season 2)

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2024 Giro d'Italia Women in review

With a week to think about the Giro d'Italia Women, we have some thoughts on the race overall, just as we did with the Vuelta Feminina. And since we're in the beginning of the Olympic break, let's look back at one of the most exciting Giros we've ever seen.

Heat was a constant companion.

Possible the biggest—and certainly most constant—factor in this year's Giro was the heat, which stayed punishingly high throughout the race. Domestiques had to make constant trips back to the car for bottles, multiplying the effort they had to make to keep their teammates hydrated and safe. We can't think of many things less daunting than to have to go back to the car on a 9% climb, load up an extra 10 kilos of water and then chase to get back in the group, only to have to do it again and again.

The heat affected the standings, too. Clara Emond was in the blue mountains classification jersey when she had to abandon due to heat-related issues. There was quite a bit of attrition among the teams, with only one or two finishing with their full squad. (This might be a good idea to mention that heat would be more manageable if the race was later in the year, see below.)

2. Forza Italia!

For the first time since 2008, the Giro has an Italian at the top of the podium, and it just seems right. Elisa Longo Borghini showed herself to be the strongest across different stages and terrains, and after being on the podium thrice before, we can't think of anyone more prepared or deserving of the win.

3. Chapeau to the race organizers.

This was the first year that RCS Sport, the organizer of the men's Giro, had taken over the women's Giro, after a few rocky years of poor (or non-existent) media coverage and organizational issues. The change appears to have been generally positive. Media coverage of the Giro was good; even though it wasn't start-to-finish, we had no trouble watching the race. And the stages and courses were thoughtfully designed, keeping the race interesting throughout. Previous Giros have seen the GC locked up in the first or second stage, but this year the tension built throughout the week and we saw a fair amount of shake-ups in the third through tenth places, a good sign of a challenging and competitive course.

4. The schedule still isn't perfect.

With perhaps the most exciting and competitive Giro d'Italia Women ever, it's a shame that it still has to compete with the Tour de France Hommes. Lots of avid cycling fans understandably prioritize the Tour, which we have to admit was incredibly exciting this year. We think it's definitely an improvement to have the women's Giro take place during the second week of the men's Tour rather than the first, but we still would prefer to see this oldest women's grand tour to have its own space on the calendar, and there is room to do it, if the organizers are willing to break with tradition. We personally would prefer late summer, closer to when the men's Vuelta is being held, but we're open to suggestions. A race this exciting doesn't deserve to be drowned out.

5. Young riders announce themselves.

We saw several young riders stamp their name on this race, which was a delight to see. We loved to see Kim le Court's last stage victory, or Clara Emond's long-range solo attack, or Neve Bradbury's stage win to follow up on her Tour de Suisse stage win. These riders are flying, and they are so much fun to watch, we are excited to see what more they will do.

6. Love for the non-super teams.

Stage racing in 2024 was basically the SD Worx-Protime show, until July. We can't blame someone like Demi Vollering for showcasing her talent, and she certainly had the strongest team—when they chose to support her. But it was nice to see a really competitive stage race that went down to the line, with multiple teams battling for the podium. AG Insurance-Soudal had a great Giro, rewarding steady effort by the whole team with a stage win by Kim le Court and the mountains classification by Justine Ghekiere. EF Oatly Cannondale scored a stage win with Clara Emond's solo breakaway win, and Bepink–Bongioanni was represented by Ana Vitória Magalhães in both the mountains classification fight and several breakaways. Neve Bradbury made Canyon-SRAM proud by taking a stage win, the young rider jersey, and the third step on the GC podium.

With the Giro in the books, and particularly since Baloise Ladies Tour wrapped up, we now have a long break in most schedules to allow for the Olympics to take place, before we once again turn our attention to the road and the Tour de France Femmes in August!

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Giro d'Italia Women - Stage 6

With a course that went up and down all day, Stage 6 was a likely breakaway stage, and when the ultimate break went out, it was a strong one. Elise Chabbey (Canyon//SRAM) had a very hard crash on a descent, and in the aftermath, Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health), Liane Lippert (Movistar), Erica Magnaldi (UAE Team ADQ), and Ane Santesteban (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) went up the road on an uncategorized climb.

Santesteban was eventually dropped, and the bunch wasn't able to bring that strong trio back. It came down to a three-up sprint to the line, with Lippert having the best legs on the day.

Lippert, who had a long recovery from a stress fracture last year, has been working her way back into form, and didn't look as strong this spring as she had been last season. Today's performance showed she is regaining the legs that brought her a stage in the Tour de France Femmes last year, and she adds a Giro stage to her palmares. (It's just weird to see her in the standard Movistar kit and not in the German national champs jersey!)

Most of the general classification remains unchanged, as the bunch finished together 21 seconds down from Lippert. The sprint to the line from the group behind was won by pink jersey wearer Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), who continues to show her dominance and remind rivals like Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) that she intends to win this Giro. Clara Emond (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) remains in the blue jersey of the mountains classification for now.

Tomorrow is the big day that we've been waiting for, the famous Blockhaus climb that has been featured in the men's Giro multiple times, but until this year it was not visited by the women's Giro. The riders will climb 11km up the Passo Lanciano, which has an average gradient of 8.5% and portions at a brutal 14.6%. They will descend, loop around, and do it again, with another assent that goes the full 17.7km to Blockhaus. And the riders are going to have to manage their energy in another very hot day—the heat has been a constant factor this week. Major GC action is almost guaranteed on this queen stage, and we can't wait!

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Giro d'Italia Women - Stage 5

With a relatively flat course, Stage 5 of the Giro was likely the last day for the sprinters, so the sprint teams (lead by SD Worx-Protime) kept the breakaways in check, letting only single riders go up the road and keeping them on a short leash.

Yesterday's winner Clara Emond (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) took some mountains points to further secure her lead in the mountain classification. The last solo breakaway rider was Marta Jaskulska (Ceratizit-WNT), who was caught with 8km to go, setting things up for the expected bunch finish.

In the sprint, Lotte Kopecky had a flawless lead-out from her teammates Elena Cecchini and Barbara Guarischi, and won in commanding fashion. Chiara Consonni (UAE Team ADQ) and Arlenis Sierra (Movistar Team) came in second and third, respectively. (We rather like photos of stage victories when teammates celebrate behind, as Guarischi did when Kopecky crossed the line!)

With the bonus seconds from the stage win, Kopecky moves within three seconds of Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) on GC, with Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) still in third, having finished in the bunch along with with ELB.

Tomorrow the road pitches upward, and it will be interesting to see how Kopecky climbs, what kind of form Uttrup-Ludwig is in, and how ELB will defend her pink jersey.

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2024 Giro d'Italia Women - Stage 4

With a mostly flat course and a hill-top finish in Urbino, we knew Stage 4 was likely to be an active breakaway stage. What we didn't expect was an announcement of a new talent, as Clara Edmond (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) announced herself on the World Tour Stage.

Emond didn't join the initial breakaway, but jumped to join them along with previous breakaway player Ana Vitória Magalhães (BePink-Bongioanni).

Emond soon left them behind and stayed away for hours to a fantastic solo victory. We're happy for her and her team, which shifted its strategy from GC contention to stage wins after Kim Cadzow's disappointing day yesterday. This team has been a lot of fun to watch this season!

But Emond's breakaway was only half the story, because there was some great GC action behind. With 40km to go, a group of 15 strong climbers formed a chase group, and put enough time in the peloton that they had to chase as well. Brodie Chapman (Lidl-Trek) eventually had to drop back to help Elisa Longo Borghini chase and maintain her position on GC. Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) animated a lot of the chasers, and still had enough in the tank to make a good showing on the final climb, finishing third on the stage and moving into third on the general classification.

Apart from Emond's brilliant solo win, the most iconic image from the stage may be Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) and ELB dueling on the cobbled climb to Urbino, where Kopecky struck and ELB wouldn't let her get away, sprinting past her to beat her at the line. ELB really wants this one!

Look at the jarring vibrations from the road surface, this was a nasty climb! Although the view was gorgeous, these hilltop town finishes don't disappoint.

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Giro d'Italia Women - Stage 7

The queen stage, with a double-climb of il Passo Lanciano and a Blockhaus finish, did not disappoint! We rarely see multiple climbs this steep in the Giro, so this would be one to remember. The heat was punishing a lot of riders, and the mountains leader, Clara Emond (EF-Oatly-Cannondale), was forced to abandon due to heat issues, leaving Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) as the virtual blue jersey, and Ghekiere would take additional points on the day.

Perhaps due to the heat, the first portions of the stage were very measured as most of the peloton left its powder dry for the big slopes near the end. Claire Steels (Movistar) made an early solo attack, but it came back.

A select group made the first climb, and local rider Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek) ripped the descent, reducing it further, before Brodie Chapman paced the valley into the the final climb.

At the base of the final climb there was a group of about 10 riders, left which including the top two GC contenders, Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime). ELB's teammate, Realini, got on the front and drilled it, and shed riders like Juliette Labous (dsm-Firmenich PostNL), Mavi Garcia, Urška Žigart (both Jayco-AlUla), and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez).

Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM) made an attack with 10km to go, and ELB and Kopecky did not respond. Bradbury was two minutes down on GC and didn't pose an immediate threat to either, and they were looking at each other the whole climb. Bradbury, who won her first World Tour stage earlier this season at Tour de Suisse Women, put almost a minute into the rest before ELB attacked, perhaps not wanting Bradbury to get closer on GC, or wanting to test Kopecky. That attack dropped Niamh Fisher-Black (SD Worx-Protime), Mavi Garcia, Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck), and Antonia Niedermaier, (Canyon-SRAM), although Rooijakkers worked her way back to Kopecky and ELB.

Bradbury would add to her lead, putting in a really strong time and finishing 44 seconds clear, a really impressive ride from the young Australian! She also puts herself onto the virtual podium.

Behind, the GC battle raged, as the trio of ELB, Kopecky, and Rooijakkers worked together. Rooijakkers was content to do a lot of work on the front, as she was working her way up in GC into fourth and wanted to limit her gap to Bradbury. In the final sprint, with bonus seconds still on offer, Kopecky launched fairly early and ELB stayed with her, but couldn't quite get around her, finishing third.

ELB keeps her pink jersey by *one second* going into the final stage. We have to tip our hats to the Giro organizers, this has been an exciting Giro to watch, and we can't wait for the final Stage 8!

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The Gilded Age's Broadway Divas MASTERPOST

Welcome to my passion project. It has come to my attention that some viewers of HBO's The Gilded Age are unfamiliar with the extensive theatre credits, alcoates, and vocal talents many of the actors possess. As the resident Broadway Diva expert, it is my responsibility to fix that.

Pictured: 20 Tony Awards and 52 nominations. Audra McDonald...well, she kind of inflates the numbers a little. Edit: Justice for Tony winner Debra Monk. She's main cast.

Introducing my new series of blog posts where I will be highlighting two theatre veterans per day in the lead-up to our much-anticipated season two finale episode.

This series will heavily focus on a select few musical performances that are widely available for viewing, in addition to a brief career rundown. I will be limiting myself to no more than five videos per Diva, otherwise we'd be here for a lifetime. These performances will include popular songs and hidden gems alike, all curated to specifically show off the actress's considerable range in the theatre, especially juxtaposed against their roles in the show.

With respect to Michael Cerveris, Nathan Lane, and the other theatre gentlemen, I will be focusing this series on the women because I am a lesbian and this show is about the women, dammit. But fear not, they will most certainly be making appearances throughout because everyone has worked with everyone on stage.

The Divas:

Christine Baranski (Agnes van Rhijn) Donna Murphy (Caroline "Lina" Astor) Kelli O'Hara (Aurora Fane) Katie Finneran (Anne Morris) Debra Monk (Armstrong) Celia Keenan-Bolger (Mrs. Bruce) Laura Benanti (Susan Blane) Linda Emond (Clara Barton) Amber Gray (Bea) Denee Benton (Peggy Scott) Audra McDonald (Dorothy Scott) Jeanne Tripplehorn (Sylvia Chamberlain) Bonus: Duets, Trios, and Other Crossovers

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5 Takeaways from La Vuelta Feminina

Competition is good.

There were no boring stages. Every stage of La Vuelta Feminina was competitive this year, and most were quite close. Even the sprint stages ended up having major GC action with the cross-winds. If you look at the results, it seems to favor the super teams like SD Worx-Protime and Visma Lease-a-Bike, and they certainly did have good results. But every stage was hotly contested, there were no dominant solo breakaways, and teams like FDJ-Suez or EF Education-Cannondale played their cards well to upset the favorites for some stage races. Frankly, the Vuelta Feminina was a lot more fun to watch than the men's Giro d'Italia is looking to be. (There, we said it!)

2. La Vuelta Feminina's spot on the calendar is fantastic.

We think the organizers of the Vuelta Feminina have absolutely nailed the spot on the calendar. That lull at the end of the spring classics was just begging for a stage race, and Spain's beautiful countryside and cities look best in spring. That's always been the down side of La Vuelta versus Le Tour in the men's calendar, the scenery is so much greener and prettier during the Tour in July than the Vuelta in August. A spring Vuelta solves that problem and avoids overlap with the Tour de France Femme or the Giro Donne, bringing top talent to the race.

3. Weird dynamics at SD Worx-Protime continue.

Honestly, we don't know what is going on in this team. Demi Vollering's performance was great, she deserved both stage wins and the general classification. But her best mountain domestique was arguably Grace Brown of FDJ-Suez and not any of her own teammates. There were times when Marlen Reusser or Mischa Bredewold seemed to attack Vollering, or when Vollering was leading out the group with her own teammates behind. It didn't escape our notice that Vollering wasn't on the podium when SD Worx accepted the best team award. No one outside the team can tell, but Abby Mickey of the Escape Collective probably said it best when she said "the SD Worx-Protime team bus can’t be a fun place to hang out at the moment."

4. Crashes continue to be a real danger.

It's been a horrible year for crashes in both the men's and women's peloton, and the Vuelta Feminina saw its share of them, even in the winning team on the first TTT stage! It's a shame we didn't get to see a rematch of Gaia Realini versus Demi Vollering due to Realini's crash and withdrawal, although Evita Muzic took us somewhat by surprise and rose to the challenge instead. Likewise, the withdrawal of very strong riders like Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek), Anna Henderson (Visma Lease-a-Bike), Emma Norsgaard (Movistar), Marta Cavalli (FDJ-Suez), Clara Emond (EF Education-Cannondale), and several others due to injuries from crashes was a real shame.

5. Several riders and teams are stepping up.

It wouldn't be fair to say that Evita Muzic has been flying below anyone's radar, but until last week, we didn't know how good her form has become. If she hadn't been caught in the second group during the crosswind echelons of Stage 4, she would have had a real shot at the podium, but she can be happy with her stellar victory on Stage 6. Similarly, Riejanne Markus was remarkably consistent in the mountains and her second-place finish is a real mark to watch her in future GC competitions. Both FDJ-Suez and EF Education-Cannondale were very strategic, using their riders effectively, and nabbed some great stage wins as a result. Ricarda Bauernfeind's (Canyon-SRAM) sixth-place finish was impressive, if only because she lost two minutes in the Stage 4 crosswind split, and was presumably riding for teammate Kasia Niewiadoma until Niewiadoma had to withdraw due to illness.

And we have to tip our hats to Karlijn Swinkels of UAE Team ADQ, who fought mightily to keep the mountains classification jersey after winning it in Stage 2, which enlivened several of the breakaways throughout this year's Vuelta Feminina. We would prefer to see the polka-dot jersey points to be calculated so as to not favor the GC winner, and the last-minute rule change before Stage 8 probably doomed Swinkels' campaign to win the Queen of the Mountains, but Swinkels fought hard regardless, and for that we salute her.

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Tour de France Femmes - Stage 7

After two brutal stages, this medium-mountain stage apparently daunted enough of the teams, especially with the Alpe d'Huez on Sunday, that the GC teams took it relatively easy. So finally, we got a true breakaway stage, with both Visma Lease-a-Bike and AG Insurance-Soudal very active to secure points in the sprint and mountains classification, respectively. Marianne Vos may have had the sprint classification all-but secured, but she went in the break and took no chances, so all she needs to do tomorrow is finish in the time cut.

Meanwhile, Justine Ghekiere and her teammate Julie van de Velde drove the break hard, with van de Velde doing a lot of work on the front to keep Ghekiere in the polka-dot jersey. (When she was awarded the most aggressive rider at the end of the stage it felt quite appropriate.)

Meanwhile, behind, the peloton was have a lazy day, with neither Canyon-SRAM nor SD Worx-Protime willing to spend much energy to real in the break until the base of the final climb. That meant that the remaining members of the break kept their time gaps, and it suddenly became apparent that Ghekiere wouldn't just secure the polka-dot jersey, she was probably going to win the stage! Ghekiere said in later interviews that she was dog-tired, but pushed on and took the stage, more than a minute ahead of the GC leaders.

Finally, on the slopes of the final climb, we saw some attacks in the reduced bunch, though not initially as we might have expected. Maëva Squiban (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) was the first to launch, and she stayed away and ended up taking second on the stage. a very impressive performance, one that would have been a stage victory if Ghekiere hadn't been hunting mountains points.

Pualiena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) was the first to attack from the bunch, and Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) tested GC leader Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) once or twice, but it settled back in a detente, with the slopes not steep enough to get separation. It wasn't until the flamme rouge that Niewiadoma attacked, and when Vollering countered, she sprinted to third place on the stage and reduced her gap to Niewiadoma by four seconds.

Obviously, everything is waiting tomorrow for the final stage finish atop Alpe d'Huez, but we have to come back for a moment and say how impressive Gheiere has been in this TdFF. We knew she was a good climber, although the Giro mountains classification wasn't the best showcase, she won the blue jersey partly due to Clara Emond's withdrawal. But we remember that last year in Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, she rode for mountains so successfully that she won GC, and earlier this year she won the mountains classification in the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in an impressive performance. Kudos to her and her team, we know riders like van de Wilde and Sarah Gigante have been riding hard for her, and it's been a great team effort.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Más Brooklyn, más Chicago

Renovaciones

NBC ha renovado Brooklyn Nine-Nine por una séptima temporada

NBC ha renovado Chicago Fire por una octava temporada

NBC ha renovado Chicago PD por una séptima temporada

NBC ha renovado Chicago Med por una quinta temporada

BBC One ha renovado Death in Paradise por una novena y una décima temporada

Cinemax ha renovado Strike Back por una octava y última temporada

Acorn TV ha renovado Agatha Raisin por una tercera temporada

CBS All Access ha renovado Star Trek: Discovery por una tercera temporada

Noticias cortas

Nicollette Sheridan (Alexis) abandonará Dynasty. Podrían buscar a otra actriz para reemplazarla.

FOX deberá pagar 179 millones de dólares a los participantes de beneficios de Bones, puesto que los altos ejecutivos subestimaron los ingresos y dieron falso testimonio en un intento de ocultar sus actos ilícitos.

Aude Legastelois (Madeleine Dumas) será regular en la novena temporada de Death in Paradise.

Sohvi Rodriguez (Mia Trujillo) será regular en la cuarta temporada de Animal Kingdom.

Tyson Ritter (Humperdoo) será regular en la cuarta temporada de Preacher.

Arden Myrin (Regina Sinclair) será regular en la segunda temporada de Insatiable.

AMC prepara un nuevo spin-off de The Walking Dead.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother, Rise) será Lonny Flash, una estrella de cine y miembro encubierto de los cazadores, en The Hunt.

Reid Scott (Veep, The Big C) será Eli, un escritor casado en 2018, en Why Women Kill.

Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, Hannibal) se une a The Many Saints of Newark, la película precuela de The Sopranos.

Seth Rogen (Superbad, Pineapple Express) protagonizará un episodio de The Twilight Zone.

Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break, Deception) y Dohn Norwood (The Sinner, Hell on Wheels) se unen a Hightown. Serán Frankie Alvarez, líder del opio; y Alan Saintille, policía estatal.

Rebecca Hall (The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) protagonizará Tales From the Loop. Será Loretta, una física privilegiada.

Nathan Lane (Modern Family, The Good Wife) será Lewis Michener, veterano de la policía de Los Ángeles que se convierte en compañero y mentor de Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto), en Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.

Felix Mallard (Happy Together, Neighbours) será recurrente en Locke & Key como Lucas Caravaggio, adolescente cuya exposición a la magia trae serias complicaciones.

Angus Macfadyen (Chuck, Californication) será Aleister Crowley, el líder de Thelema, en la segunda temporada de Strange Angel. Matthew Barnes (Atlanta) será recurrente como Wallace, agente de inteligencia a cargo de la seguridad del equipo de cohetería.

Desmin Borges (You're the Worst), Ashleigh LaThrop (The Kominsky Method, Sirens), Farrah Mackenzie (Logan Lucky) y Christopher Denham (Billions, Manhattan) se unen a Utopia. Serán Wilson Wilson, Becky, Alice y Arby.

James Remar (Dexter, Black Lightning) y Gloria Reuben (Mr. Robot, ER) serán recurrentes en City on a Hill como Richy, el padre de Frankie (Jonathan Tucker) y Jimmy (Mark O'Brien); y Eloise, la madre de Siobhan (Lauren E. Banks).

Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica, The 100) será recurrente en Limetown como Sadia Latifi, agente del FBI encargada de vigilar a Lia (Jessica Biel).

Amanda Payton (Trial & Error, Animal Kingdom) se une como regular a Code 404.

Rosa Gilmore (The Other Two, The Handmaid's Tale), Keon Alexander (Impulse, Tyrant) y Jess Salgueiro (The Boys, Channel Zero) serán recurrentes en la cuarta temporada de The Expanse.

Joshua Orpin (The Neon Spectrum) será Superboy en la segunda temporada de Titans.

Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead, Hap and Leonard) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Lodge 49 como Clara, una emisaria británica amiga de Connie (Linda Emond).

Glynn Turman (House of Lies, The Wire) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Claws como Calvin, padre de Desna (Niecy Nash) y Dean (Harold Perrineau).

Pósters

            Nuevas series

Julia Roberts (Homecoming, Erin Brockovich) está en conversaciones para protagonizar y producir Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, adaptación de la novela de Jo Piazza (2018) sobre una mujer que deja su trabajo como ejecutiva de Silicon Valley y se muda con su familia a su pueblo natal de Pensilvania para poder presentarse a senadora en unas elecciones que deciden el balance de poder en el Congreso. Escrita por Jon Robin Baitz (The Slap, Brothers & Sisters).

La segunda serie original sudafricana de Netflix es Blood & Water, drama sobre un adolescente que descubre el pasado secreto de su familia mientras navega en el complicado mundo del instituto. Dirigida por Nosipho Dumisa (Nommer 37) y escrita por Daryne Joshua y Travis Taute.

FX ha encargado una comedia, aún sin título, basada en la vida del rapero y comediante Lil Dicky.

HBO encarga ocho episodios de We Are Who We Are, sobre dos adolescentes italianos que se descubren a sí mismos mientras viven en una base militar. Escrita y dirigida por Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria).

ITV encarga seis episodios de Glass Houses, drama creado y escrito por Mark Brotherhood (Mount Pleasant, Shameless) sobre la reacción de una pequeña comunidad costera ante los detalles que ha contado una vecina cotilla a un periodista radiofónico. Protagonizado por Dawn French (The Wrong Mans, Delicious), Mark Heap (Upstart Crow, Friday Night Dinner), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Broadchurch, Cucumber), Vicki Pepperdine (Sally4Ever, Camping) y Patrick Robinson (Casualty, Mount Pleasant).

Luz verde directa en Netflix a diez episodios de The Baby-Sitters Club, adaptación de las novelas de Ann M. Martin. Escrita por Rachel Shukert (GLOW, Supergirl).

Syfy ha encargado Resident Alien, comedia adaptación del cómic sobre un alien que llega a la Tierra con la misión de destruir la humanidad y toma la identidad de un doctor de Colorado. Escrita y producida por Chris Sheridan (Family Guy). Protagonizada por Alan Tudyk (Doom Patrol, Suburgatory), Sara Tomko (Once Upon a Time, Sneaky Pete), Corey Reynolds (The Closer, Murder in the First), Alice Wetterlund (People of Earth, Silicon Valley) y Levi Fiehler (Mars, The Fosters).

Freeform encarga Motherland, sobre un mundo alternativo en el que las brujas aceptaron luchar por su país hace trescientos años a cambio de no ser perseguidas y, en la actualidad, varias chicas jóvenes son entrenadas en Fort Salem. Protagonizada por Kelcey Mawema (Deadly Class, To All the Boys I've Loved Before), Jessica Sutton (The Kissing Booth, Escape Room), Taylor Hickson (Deadly Class, Aftermath), Amalia Holm (Playground) y Demetria McKinney (House of Payne, Saints & Sinners).

Fechas

La vigésima temporada de Midsomer Murders se estrena en ITV el 10 de marzo

La segunda temporada de Timewasters se estrena en ITV2 el 11 de marzo

Cheat se estrena en ITV el 11 de marzo

La segunda temporada de The OA llega a Netflix el 22 de marzo

La segunda temporada de The Tick llega a Amazon el 5 de abril

La cuarta temporada de Life in Pieces se estrena en CBS el 18 de abril

La quinta temporada de Bosch llega a Amazon el 19 de abril

La segunda temporada de Pure se estrena en WGN America el 28 de mayo

When They See Us llega a Netflix el 31 de mayo

Tráilers y promos

When They See Us

Bosch - Temporada 5

The Tick - Temporada 2

His Dark Materials

Arrested Development - Temporada 5b

Turn Up Charlie

The Bay

The Code

Fosse/Verdon