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Liv-AlUla conserve ses Langma et EnviLiv en 2025

Le vélos 2024 du team Liv-AlUla étaient déjà aux couleurs qui sont d’actualité pourn 2025. Ils sont donc reconduits avec leurs équipements pour la saison qui vient. Pas de surprise pour les Liv 2025 de l’équipe Liv-AlUla, ce sont les mêmes modèles Langma SL et EnviLiv SL que l’année passée. On retrouve donc des groupes Shimano Dura-Ace, pédales et capteur de puissance compris, associés aux…

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Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition 2024 🥇 Marianne Vos (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) 🥈 Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx - Protime) 🥉 Ingvild Gåskjenn (Liv AlUla Jayco)

📸 by Rafa Gomez/Sprint Cycling

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The final stage of Tour of Britain Women seemed like it was going to be another SD Worx show of force. After a miserably cold and rainy day, the break had been caught, and just outside the 3km mark, the third-place rider on GC, Letizia Paternoster (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) had a terribly timed rear wheel flat. Lotte Kopecky, dominant as always, was leading it out, with Lorena Wiebes and other teammates behind her. And then this happened:

SD Worx was apparently going for Christine Majerus, which would have been a great victory for her in her last season. Kopecky had to actually freewheel most of the last 200m because she was so much father ahead. With Lorena Wiebes just behind her, Majerus started celebrating before the line, and Paternoster's teammate Ruby Roseman-Gannon pipped her on the line with a bike throw!

We have to feel bad for Majerus and her team that set her up for the stage win, but haven't we already learned enough to ride through the line? Photographers can get great celebration pictures of any rider after the finish line that look just as good as celebration pictures at or before the line. Stop doing this already! But at least Majerus had the consolation of moving up into third overall, thanks to the bonus seconds and Paternoster's terrible mechanical luck. (Majerus looked somewhat chagrined on the podium.)

We feel much better for Roseman-Gannon for driving to the line, and glad that her team was able to pivot from Paternoster's misfortune and go for Roseman-Gannon's stage victory. Well done, and it's always nice to avoid a sweep by one of the super-teams, even if it's unintentional. And congrats to Anna Henderson, who rode into second on Stage 2 and held that lead, racing for her national Team Great Britain, it's nice to see a country represented in the race it hosts.

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Liv Racing-TeqFind to be merged with Jayco-AlUla, development team created

'For us, this is a huge step forward and a valuable one for female riders' says Australian team's general manager from CyclingNews RSS Feed https://ift.tt/Kr9pduW

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Under the Sky and Moon (Part 172)

CW // Lots of small kisses; fluff

Ketika Lucas dan Christoper tiba di rumahnya, di pemukiman Alula Tengah yang jauh dari huru-hara lingkungan keempat istana, Sondia tengah membaca bukunya yang dia bawa, serta mengerjakan tugas yang belum dia kerjakan. Sementara Oliver bersandar di jendela, memperhatikan hujan yang mengguyur kota.

Matanya berbinar ketika melihat Lucas muncul, bersama dengan Christoper yang menepuk pundaknya. Dia tak mengindahkan teriakan Sondia ketika dia berlari keluar, menciumnya.

Christoper berjalan ke arah Sondia, menyentuh lengannya. Yang lebih muda memberinya tatapan khawatir, sementara dia menggelengkan kepalanya.

Lucas masih memeluk Oliver di tengah hujan, menilingkan kepalanya dan terus menciumnya, penuh rasa bersalah karena kekacauan yang mereka alami. Ketika suaminya melepasnya, Oliver memeluknya, menempelkan kepalanya di lehernya.

“Kamu baik-baik saja?”

Dia mengangguk. “Bagaimana Skyline Hall?”

Lucas melirik Christoper, yang mengalihkan pandangannya, menyerahkan semua padanya. Jadi dia mengelus rambutnya, berbisik, “Tak ada yang perlu dikhawatirkan.”

Jauh di lubuk hatinya, Oliver paham bahwa dia berbohong. Tidak ada yang baik-baik saja, entah itu di Moonlight Court ataupun Skyline Hall. Namun Lucas berbohong untuk membuatnya merasa lebih baik, dan dia hanya bisa berpura-pura tidak tahu.

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Lucas menggulung selimut ke sekitar mereka berdua, Oliver di depannya, memainkan ujung selimut yang menutupi badannya. Walaupun dengan baju lengan panjang pun, udara dingin hujan masih menyerang keduanya, membuat mereka mengandalkan kehangatan satu sama lain.

“Nyaman?” Oliver tersenyum, mengangguk, dan Lucas mencium kepalanya.

Namun wajahnya berubah gelap. “Kamu tahu kalau aku dan Sondia tak bisa bersembunyi selamanya disini, kan?” Lucas menyandarkan kepala mereka satu sama lain, menggoyangkan badannya di pelukannya. “Luke, jangan mengabaikanku.”

“Aku tahu,” balasnya pada akhirnya. “Hanya sampai mereka mereda, kalian tak aman di istana.”

“Kamu tak bisa menghadapi ini sendirian, aku seharusnya bersamamu disana, Luke.”

“Bahkan jika itu membahayakanmu?” Oliver menundukkan kepalanya, namun Lucas meletakkan jarinya di dagunya, membuatnya menatap matanya. “Aku takkan membiarkan itu terjadi.”

Healer itu meraih tangannya, mencium punggung tangannya. “Sakitmu akan menjadi sakitku,” gumamnya, menutup mata dan menyandarkan pipinya di telapak tangan suaminya. “Ingat?”

Lucas tak berkedip. Menyembunyikan Oliver disini tampak seperti tindakan yang rasional, walaupun dia tahu bahwa suaminya memiliki kuasanya sendiri. Dia mampu melindungi dirinya sendiri dan mampu untuk berdiri di sampingnya, selayaknya sumpah di hari pernikahan mereka.

Tapi dia tak bisa membiarkan itu terjadi.

Jadi dia mengelus pipinya, tersenyum dan menggelengkan kepala. “Dengarkan aku untuk sekali ini,” pintanya. “Sekali ini saja, suamiku sayang.”

Oliver mengalihkan pandangannya, menyerah, mengerti bahwa dia tak bisa melanggarnya. Lucas tersenyum, memindahkan posisinya dan membiarkan kedua pahanya menjadi tumpuan Oliver, membuatnya menyandarkan diri di dada dan pundaknya.

“Kamu mengantuk?” tanyanya, lalu melihat wajahnya yang memucat. “Liv, sayangku–”

“Aku baik-baik saja,” gumamnya. “Aku hanya butuh tidur.”

Lucas mengelus rambutnya, menyingkirkan poninya yang menutupi wajahnya, kembali menggoyangkan tubuhnya perlahan – seperti menimangnya. Tangannya terjatuh ke samping perutnya dan Oliver meraihnya. “Liv?”

“Lakukan itu lagi,” bisiknya. “Tanganmu hangat.”

Dia menurutinya, mencium kepalanya sebelum matanya beralih ke jendela, memperhatikan hujan yang masih menerpa, memeluk erat Oliver di dalam selimut yang mereka bagi.

Ketika dia merasakan dengkurannya, dia berbisik, “Aku takkan membiarkan siapapun melukaimu.”

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for the first time since their arrival, liv and hunter are alone; airyana only now just leaving to take a walk (get an autograph from commander shepard for me! he’d joked). now, hunter crawls into the hospital bed beside liv, curls up as close to him as possible. he strokes his feathers, carefully, and after a long silence, hesitantly speaks up. “i... feel like i should rejoin the war effort,” he says, with an almost uncharacteristic seriousness. “i know i won’t make much difference, but...”

livithia  has  only  had  two  thoughts  since  arriving  upon  the  Citadel,   broken  and  burned,   clutching  his  terrified  son  to  his  chest:   he  failed,   and  Commander  Shepard  was  right   (   —   not  that  he  never  believed  him  at  all,   like  most  people.   As  a  matter  of  fact,   Livithia  has  been  one  of  Commander  Shepard’s  most  outspoken  supporters,   and  has  worked  tirelessly  since  the  man’s  “death”  two  years  ago  to  gather  resources,   supplies,   knowledge  on  how  to  fight  a  war  without  the  only  man  who  saw  it  coming   ———   and,   he  understands  now  that  it  could  never  have  been  enough.   )

He  wishes  that  the  knowledge  could  be  a  comfort,   but  the  only  thing  that  he  can  see  are  the  dead  bodies  of  his  parents,   his  children,   his  people,   the  ruins  of  his  planet.   (   There  are  other  alula  who  were  off-world  at  the  time  of  the  attack,   he  knows.   He  has  seen  one  or  two  here,   on  the  Citadel,   a  doctor  and  a  merchant  who  could  scarcely  believe  that  their  prince  had  made  it  here  in  almost  one  piece,   and  he  has  children  who  were  off-world  as  well   —   including  the  only  of  his  children  who  was  not  an  alula,   an  asari  named  Lyvea.   Regardless,   he  cannot  shake  his  feeling  of  loss,   utter  hopelessness.   There  is  nothing  left  of  Croone,   and  the  dead  cannot  be  brought  back.   )

Airyana  was  so  adamant  that  he  receive  medical  treatment  once  they  arrived,   but  he  refused   ———   until  he  collapsed  in  the  marketplace,   shortly  after  purchasing  a  replacement  mask  for  his  son  who  couldn’t  bear  to  abandon  the  alula  tradition  of  only  showing  your  face  to  family.   (   Livithia  can  no  longer  bring  himself  to  care,   doesn’t  mind  the  stares  and  murmurs  from  other  aliens.   )   When  he  awoke,   with  Airyana  pressed  into  his  shoulder,   gently  weeping,   Hunter  holding  his  hand  and  his  talon,   the  true  extent  of  his  injuries  finally  occurred  to  him.   He  could  feel  his  wings  bandaged  and  wrapped  behind  him,   could  tell  that  they  had  been  broken,   could  see  bandages  around  his  chest  and  legs  and  feet,   could  feel  the  cannula  in  his  nose.   (   At  least  he  couldn’t  feel  any  pain,   but  he  attributed  that  to  the  IVs  in  his  arm.   )

His  son  and  his  love  both  looked  so  miserable,   so  disheveled,   and  it  broke  Livithia’s  heart  to  be  the  cause  of  it.   He  allowed  Airyana  to  remain  for  a  while,   stroked  the  boy’s  face,   even  preened  his  feathers  a  bit,   before  gently  suggesting  that  the  boy  go  get  something  to  eat,   get  some  air,   get  out  of  this  stuffy  hospital  room,   hm?   We  were  never  meant  to  be  so  cooped  up,   my  boy.

The  boy  protested,   because  of  course  he  did,   because  he  is  Livithia’s  son  and  he  has  always  been  so  strong-willed  and  stubborn-headed   ———   but,   eventually,   he  relented,   because  he  is  intelligent  as  well  and  more  than  likely  understood  that  his  father  wished  for  a  few  moments  alone  with  Hunter.

Get  an  autograph  from  Commander  Shepard  for  me! 

❝   Commander  Shepard  is  here?   at  the  hospital?   ❞

Someone  on  his  team  got  hurt,   Airyana  offers,   with  a  touch  of  that  boyish  rebellion  in  his  voice  and  arms  folded  across  his  chest.   (   He  truly  does  not  wish  to  leave.   )

❝   ———   ah.   I  see.   Offer  him  my  condolences,   but  do  not  trouble  him  too  much,   son.   Although,   I  would  like  to  speak  with  him  whenever  he  is  available.   ❞

With  a  nod,   Airyana  finally  departs,   and  Hunter  wastes  no  time  in  crawling  into  his  bed,   curling  into  his  side,   gently  stroking   (   what  remains  of   )   his  feathers.   Livithia  pillows  his  cheek  atop  Hunter’s  head,   embraces  him  with  as  many  arms  as  he  is  free  to  move,   closes  his  eyes  to  relish  this  moment  as  much  as  possible   /   to  pretend  that  he  is  back  home  in  his  nest  and  not  confined  to  this  dreadfully  uncomfortable  bed.   Tears  threaten  from  behind  his  lids,   but  to  cry  now  feels  selfish,   so  he  swallows  them  down.

I  feel  like  I  should  rejoin  the  war  effort.

Livithia  wishes  more  than  anything  that  this  were  another  joke  that  he  could  laugh  at,   reply  with  Wouldn’t  that  require  doing  real  work?,   but  he  can  tell  by  the  way  that  Hunter’s  voice  softens,   falls  heavy  onto  his  chest,   that  he  means  it,   and  it’s  more  than  Livithia  can  stand.

I  know  I  won’t  make  much  difference,   but   …

❝   ———   enough.   ❞   

Livithia  sounds  more  like  a  father  than  a  worried  lover,   but  it’s  the  only  way  that  he  can  hope  to  maintain  any  semblance  of  control  over  himself.   His  arms  tighten  around  Hunter,   and  he  presses  a  lingering  kiss  to  the  top  of  the  man’s  head.

❝   You  are  more  capable  than  you  have  ever  given  yourself  credit  for,   my  love.   Should  you  wish  to  fight,   you  have  my  undying  support,   and  my  firm  belief  that  your  contribution  will  be  anything  but  small.   However,   ❞   here,   he  falters  a  bit,   swallows  past  the  growing  lump  in  his  throat,   ❝   if  you  are  only  doing  this  because  you  feel  as  though  you  have  something  to  prove   …   then,   I  would  rather  you  did  not.   There  are  other  ways  to  assist  that  will  not  put  you  in  danger.   I  cannot  bear  to  lose  anyone  else.   ❞  

then,   lightheartedly,   with  a  smile  on  his  face  and  in  his  voice,

❝   Besides,   Airyana  has  been  holding  on  to  your  identification  tags  since  I  was  admitted   —   and,   between  you  and  me,   I  do  not  believe  that  he  would  let  them  go  easily.   I  have  seen  him  toying  with  them  when  he  thought  me  otherwise  disposed   —   and,   since  you  couldn’t  possibly  rejoin  without  those   …   ❞  

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They call her the GOAT for a reason! When Shirin van Androoij (Lidl-Trek) broke away from the other five leaders, Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease-a-Bike) was the only one fast enough to respond and go with her on the winning move of Dwars door Vlaanderen.

As van Androoij's teammate Elisa Longo Borghini sat on in the group of Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-ProTime), Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceunick), and Letizia Paternoster (Liv AlUla - Jayco), Vos and van Androoij powered away, until it was clear that the victory would be down to the two. Van Androoij stopped cooperating with Vos with a couple kilometers left, but there was no stopping Vos, who led out the sprint and won by a bike length.

Paternoster was the fastest of the group behind, winning the sprint for the last step on the podium ahead of Kopecky.

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Tour de France Femmes - Stage 5

After four stages and three days, the Tour de France Femmes finally crossed into France, where it would finish in Amneville. This was a lumpy stage with five categorized climbs, and many teams had breakaway ambitions. The strongest of the breakaway attempts was a trio of strong riders up the road in the latter half of the race. Fem van Empel (Visma Lease-a-Bike), Loes Adegeest (FDJ-Suez), and Julie Van de Wilde (AG Insurance-Soudal) worked together well and stayed away for a long time, with van Empel scooping up the bonus seconds near the end. The biggest news from this portion was how much Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek) appeared to be struggling at the back on the short climbs, not a good sign for her GC prospects before we even got to the mountains.

The story of this stage, however, was not one of the breakaway versus the peloton, but of the cruelty of this sport. In an unassuming curve 6km from the finish, a relatively high-speed crash in the main bunch took down some of the top riders, including yellow jersey wearer Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), polka-dot jersey Puck Piertese (Fenix-Deceuninck), and Pfeiffer Georgi (dsm-firmenich-postNL). It was a bad crash, with some riders taking a long time to get up and others—including Georgi—not getting up at all, abandoning the race. The images of the crash were not pretty, and we will not reproduced them here.

Vollering was up relatively quickly, but didn't get back on the bike for a while, as she looked to be in pain and had visible tears in her shorts showing road rash on her hip. With the crash outside the 5km mark, all Vollering could do was remount and try to chase back on. We don't even think she got a bike change, and she didn't have any teammates to help her for quite a while, until she reached Mischa Bredewold who could help pull her on the flats.

Up ahead, the parts of the peloton that had survived the crash soon caught the breakaway, and Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) sparked the winning move off the front. Only Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), and Liane Lippert (Movistar) could join. As they came into the sprint, Lippert attacked from behind, but Niewiadoma and Vas jumped quickly on her wheel and came past her, with Vas the faster of the two. Vas' reaction shows her mixed emotions on the day for Team SD Worx-Protime.

Behind, it was a race against the clock, as Demi Vollering fought to limit her time losses. She was moving quickly, but was in visible pain at the line and after the stage, though she did her cooldown as usual on the stationary bike.

Although Kasia Niewiadoma didn't win the sprint for the stage, she moved into the lead on GC after her strong performance yesterday and today, and will wear yellow tomorrow. We can't feel bad about Niewiadoma in yellow, she certainly deserves it, but even she would probably admit this isn't how she would prefer to take it.

We're a little disheartened with this crash, and hope the riders will recover. Like we said above, this is a cruel sport sometimes, and it's very off-putting. Not everyone was badly hurt—Puck Pieterse was walking around with seemingly boundless energy, throwing flowers to the crowd, despite skinning her chin, hands, and knees. But the overhead images of Pfeiffer Georgi will stay with us for a while, and only time will tell how well Vollering will be able to recover before tomorrow's increasingly mountainous course.

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The disruption and significant shortening of Sunday's Amstel Gold Race likely benefited Ingvild Gåskjenn, whose podium place was a nice break-out for the young Norwegian. In an interview after the race she said her team (Liv AlULa Jayco) had intended to go for Alex Manley in the sprint, but Manly was out of position and Gåskjenn found herself in a good position and went for it, beating out the likes of Pfeiffer Giorgi, Elisa Longo Borghini, and the rest of a very strong bunch.

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The agony and the ecstacy: Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) celebrates too early at the finish of Amstel Gold Ladies, allowing Marianne Vos (Visma Lease-a-Bike) to pip her at the line with a bike throw.

This was a weird race, particularly when it was neutralized for about an hour due to a police motorcycle accident with injuries. Eventually the race was shortened by 54km and only three final laps, which made for intense racing!

Shout-out to Ingvild Gåsjenn (Liv AlUla Jayco) for a nice sprint finish alongside Vos to snag third place on the podium!

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SD Worx continue their domination, as Lorena Wiebes takes her turn atop the podium at Tour of Britain Women.

It sure helps when you have the world champion and race leader giving you a lead-out!

Charlotte Kool (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) was second on the stage, with Georgia Baker (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) in third.

Just a reminder, the stages are all being broadcast live on YouTube!

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Last week Mavi García finally returned to the top step of a World Tour podium, winning GC in the Vuelta Ciclista Andalucia Women. And she had company there with her teammates, Silke Smulders and Ella Wyllie!

It's nice to see García back to her winning ways, and Liv-AlUla-Jayco had a lot of fun in this race. First, Smulders took the first stage in a two-rider breakaway with García, with Wyllie in third:

Then Garcí won Stage 2:

And it was Wyllie's turn for Stage 3 (you can see her teammates celebrating in the background):

To be fair, the depth of competition wasn't the deepest at Andalucia, without Lidl-Trek or SD Worx-Protime there. But the three Liv riders built an impressive lead over the rest of the GC contenders, more than three minutes back. That has to feel good for the team, and bodes well for the team's future to have promising young talents working so well with the veteran García.

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Giro d'Italia Women 2024 - Stage 3

The third stage of this year's Giro d'Italia Women saw the first real test for the climbers, with a mountain top finish that saw Mavi García (Liv AlUl Jayco) set a fast pace in the closing kilometers.

Niamh Fisher-Black (SD Worx-Protime) then bridged to García and launched on the final climb to win by several seconds. She'll wear the polka-dot jersey tomorrow, and could keep it to the end.

Behind Fisher-Black was a group of three GC contenders, including her teammate Lotte Kopecky, Juliette Labous (dsm-firmenich PostNL), and current GC leader Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek). With that performance, ELB maintains her pink jersey, and Kopecky and Labous move into second and third, respectively. We have to say, Kopecky is climbing really well right now to stay with Labous and ELB, and a 1-2 finish is a nice result for SD Worx-Protime. Kopocky will wear the points jersey tomorrow.

Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon//SRAM Racing) wasn't far back from the top group and moves into fourth, solidifying her position in the young rider classification. Her closest rival in the white jersey is her teammate, Neve Bradbury.

Tomorrow's course has three climbs near the end, and may be tempting for a breakaway.

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This was the winning move as Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) on the lead-up to the last Holstheide climb that cracked Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) in yesterday's De Brabantse Pijl (La Flèche Brabançonne).

Vollering and ELB both were extremely strong, and powered away from the peloton to catch the remnants of the break-away, along with Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ) and Alessia Vigilia (FDJ-Suez). When ELB and Vollering launched on the s-Bocht Overijse climb it splintered the group, and only Vigilia was strong enough to go with them. It cost her dearly, however, and she would finally drop on the last ascent of the Moskesstraat.

It almost looked like we could expect a two-up sprint between Vollering and ELB, like a rematch of last year's Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but ELB had other ideas. Launching at the base of the Holstheide climb, ELB was too strong and Vollering had no response; the race was over. ELB powered ahead (maybe getting a bit of a moto draft!) and won by over 40 seconds.

Alexandra Manly (Liv AlUla Jayco) won the sprint from the bunch behind to round out the podium, a really nice effort from her.

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Les vélos du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2024

Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2024 est aussi une belle occasion pour débusquer quelques nouveautés… Et découvrir les spécificités des machines des championnes bien sûr ! Les paddocks du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2024 et les vélos qu’on y trouve sont à la fois proches de ceux du Tour masculin et différents. On y retrouve ainsi les mêmes marques, les mêmes équipementiers, mais souvent…