#blanka vas

[marcelskittels]

MARIANNE VOS & BLANKA VAS Paris 2024 Olympics - Cycling: Women's Road Race 📸 by Zac Williams/SWpix

[oneminutefiftysixseconds]

olympic top 5 (with no teammates!) and a tour de france stage win within two weeks QUEEN

[womensworldtour]

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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[ronnydeschepper]

Blanka Vas wordt 22...

Blanka Kata Vas (foto Axel VH) is een Hongaars veldrijdster, mountainbikester en wegwielrenster die sinds 2021 rijdt bij het Nederlandse Team SD Worx. Continue reading Untitled

[mandlovapusinka]

Anyone care to explain why Vos, Kopecky and Vas just sat down, almost stopped, looking at each other and did not even try to follow or chase when Faulkner went off TWO FCKING K FROM THE FINISH LINE?!

[samott]

Gratula!

[embluesky]

Okay seeing an interview with Blanka and apparently they gave her some Limburgse pie at the income- like Im cackling, she’s so cute as well

[etapereine]

📸 dominiquepowers

[marcelskittels]

TEAM SD WORX - PROTIME Demi Vollering, Mischa Bredewold, Niamh Fisher-Black, Barbara Guarischi, Christine Majerus, Blanka Vas & Lorena Wiebes

Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2024 📸 by Eloise Maivan (tornanti_cc)

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Kata Blanka Vas (CX World Cup Besançon WE 2024) 29/12/2024

[womensworldtour]

Kristen Faulkner knows how to ride through the line!

Major GC action in the crosswinds today at La Vuelta Feminina. After SD Worx-Protime shredded the peloton into echelons, Kristen Faulkner attacked the select leading group on an uphill section with 6km to go, and soloed away to the finish. Faulkner reached speeds of 67kph, and though the chasers made up some of the ground, she stayed away for the win.

Faulkner saved her celebration until after crossing the line, because the GC came down to mere seconds. Faulkner is now in third on GC, after Marianne Vos out-sprinted Blanka Vas to take the red jersey off her shoulders with the bonus seconds.

Here's the obligatory celebration photo with Alison Jackson, who was just as enthusiastic as when Faulkner led her out to win Stage 2. It's been a very good spring for the new EF Education-Cannondale team!

Tomorrow we get our first proper mountain stage, which is looking pretty good for the likes of Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) or Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), who made the first group in the crosswinds, along with Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez). Not so fortunate were GC contenders like Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek), Liane Lippert (Movistar), and Mavi García (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), who were caught in the second group and lost over two minutes.

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[algebraicvarietyshow]

"When you have the team leader wearing the yellow jersey and she's on the ground you don't let anyone ride at the front. It was a bipolar day for SD Worx. The big favorite for this Tour de France loses more than a minute and yet wins the stage. Blanka Vas. They only have 2 riders with her, Blanka Vas and Lorena Wiebes. They come back immediately. I don't care how much someone wants to win a stage, I don't care how important it is, everyone comes back and they didn't. To see a yellow jersey riding alone is totally unacceptable."

lance armstrong nincs elájulva a szakaszgyőzelemtől. vas blanka azt mondta utólag, hogy nem működött a rádiója, ezért nem is tudta, hogy a sárgatrikós egyedül maradt. mindenesetre fura szituáció volt (és nem kell feltétlenül armstrong véleményére adni)

[celuloideycarbono]

I have another one.

Photo finish

Marcel Kittel vs Edvald Boasson Hagen (stage 7 Tour de France 2017, Troyes-Nuits-Saint-Georges) / Mathieu van der Poel vs Wout van Aert (Ronde van Vlaanderen 2020) / Tadej Pogacar vs Julian Alaphilippe (Liège - Bastogne - Liège 2021) / Wout van Aert vs Tadej Pogacar (Olympic Race Tokyo 2021, battle for the silver) / Wout van Aert vs Tom Pidcock (Amstel Gold Race 2022) / Jonas Vingegaard vs Tadej Pogacar (stage 11, Tour de France 2024, Évaux-les-Bains - Le Lioran).