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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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I don't know if I like the new Lidl-Trek kit-- I keep thinking they look like the Simpsons if they fell into a blender-- but at least I can spot them in the damn peloton.

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UCI-farizeeër

Juryleden, de inquisiteurs van de wielersport. Beulsknechten gehuld in een blauwe blazer  met het regelementenboek als hakbijl.  Berucht om vaak onbegrijpelijke beslissingen. Mannetjes waar het begrip machtswellust nooit ver weg is.  Julien Bernard prof bij Lidl-Trek weet daar alles van. Wat voor Julien  een levenslange prachtige herinnering ging worden eindigt in een deceptie: met dank aan zo’n…

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Vuelta 2024, les informations pour suivre cette 79ème édition

Du 17 août au 8 septembre 2024, la Vuelta reliera Lisbonne à Madrid en empruntant un parcours qui ne sera jamais plat ! Idéal pour le spectacle. Absent du Tour de France 2024, Sepp Kuss se positionne en favori pour sa succession sur la Vuelta. Tadej Pogačar et Jonas Vingegaard ne sont pas là, mais il y a les Landa, Roglic, Vine, Almeida, Yates, Rodriguez entre autres pour le contrer dans sa…

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well.

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love reading responses to my meme quiz <3

if any quiz takers are out there reading this thank u for ur little notes and trivia i have a document w all of them on my laptop

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Mads Pedersen of Lidl - Trek celebrates at finish line as race winner ahead of Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin - Deceuninck during the 86th Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields 2024 - Men's Elite a 253.1km one day race from Ieper to Wevelgem on March 24, 2024 in Wevelgem, Belgium. (Photos by Tim de Waele & Eric Lalmand/Getty Images)

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Tour de France Femmes - Stage 2

Another sprint stage, a short one this time in the morning of day 2 before this evening's ITT. Only 68km from Dortrecht to Rotterdam, pancake flat, no mountains points—please forgive us if we think these sorts of stages are boring.

If you like windmills or Dutch road infrastructure, there's a lot to see in flat Dutch stages. If you don't care about traffic calming or pedestrian islands or raised crosswalks or trams or continuous sidewalks, then there really wasn't much to watch in this stage until the end.

For the better part of an hour and a half, the most interesting thing to happen were a few minor crashes in the bunch with touches of wheels, or Tashkent riders getting dropped off the back, and no one wants to see that. If you only caught the last 10km (or even 3km, to be honest) we wouldn't blame you.

Fast forward to the end, then, which certainly was exciting, a full bunch sprint after winding through narrow roads and roundabouts on the entrance to Rotterdam. The irony of the Netherlands is that the very bike paths and road furniture that make the country great for average people to bike make it a challenging place to race for the pro peloton. Most of the sprint teams got their riders through a series of turns and across several bridges safely, but crash near the front on one of the biggest bridges took Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) out of contention and split the group in half.

Team SD Worx-Protime led in the approach with Blanka Vas and Team dsm-firmenich-postNL did the same with Pfeiffer Georgi, and when the sprinters lit their candles, Charlotte Kool came up on the right-hand side, slipped past Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease-a-Bike) and slingshotted around Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) to take her second Tour de France Femmes stage in a row!

Kool and Wiebes were a couple bike lengths ahead of Vos, who was in turn a couple bike lengths ahead of Lotta Henttala (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) and Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek). These are the best sprinters in the world right now, and seeing them go head-to-head almost makes the back-to-back sprint stages worth it.

More racing later today in what they are calling Stage 3.

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QUARK ALERT!!

QUARK SOFT CHEESE!!!

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did i mention that the marketing intern of lidl trek is absolutely insane for posting these on instagram

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Les vélos et matériel vus sur les Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2024

Ouverture de la saison des classiques, l’Omloop Het Nieuwsblad permet de voir, tant chez les hommes que chez les femmes les vélos qui seront utilisés dans les prochaines semaines. Et il y avait des choses intéressantes sur l’édition 2024. Du vent, des pavés, des monts, le week-end d’ouverture des classiques en Europe est incontournable ! Le Omloop Het Nieuwsblad lance vraiment la saison des…

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Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin - Deceuninck & Mads Pedersen of Lidl - Trek during the 86th Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields 2024 - Men's Elite a 253.1km one day race from Ieper to Wevelgem on March 24, 2024. (Photos by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

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shoutout to whoever's running the lidl-trek twitter