Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia Femminile Internazionale 2013

Ms. Vos  photo:Giant Bicycles
Ms. Vos photo:Giant Bicycles

This is the women’s Giro and it just happens to take place in early July, bad timing or good timing, at least the Italians step up and do a mini-Grand Tour. Here is the start list. Unfortunately we cannot be giving away more bikes and wheels for this race, but bragging rights and points are useful. Do I have any insightful things to say about this race? No, I don’t know anything about it and it’s not that I’m not interested. There is very little coverage of women’s racing that I ever see, in print or on television in the USA. I’d watch women racing in Italy. I’m not getting up at midnight to watch streaming video of it, sorry. I didn’t do that for the men’s Giro. The Tour will suck a lot of reporting over to France but hopefully there are a few sage reporters and photos who know women’s racing and Italy are a great combination.

Marianne Vos, Marianne Vos, can someone beat Marianne Vos? I like her, she seems a very nice person and a supremely gifted cyclist but really ladies, someone has to step up. I am a broken record about this. Maybe she is Ellen Merckx and no one will dominate so when she retires but I would love to see many other badass women up on the top step of the podiums too. Let it begin this Sunday. And don’t Delgado yourself out of this VSP with TdF fever.

From Giovinazzo to Cremona, the Giro Donne

Stage: 1 – 30 June : Giovinazzo – Margherita de Savioa, 124.30 km

Stage: 2 – 1 July : Pontecagnano Faiano, 99.60 km

Stage: 3 – 2 July : Cerro al Volturno , 111.60 km

Stage: 4 – 3 July : Monte San Vito – Castelfidardo, 137.20 km

Stage: 5 – 4 July : Varazze – Monte Beigua, 73.30 km

Stage: 6 – 5 July : Terme di Premia – San Domenico , 121.00 km

Stage: 7 – 6 July : Corbetta , 120.00 km

Stage: 8 – 7 July : Cremona ITT, 16.00 km

 

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158 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia Femminile Internazionale 2013”

  1. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Stevens, evelyn
    3. Van dijk
    4. Johannsen, emma
    5. luperini

  2. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Tiffany Cromwell
    4. Bronzini
    5. Tatiana Giuderzo

  3. VSP PICKS:

    1. marianne Vos
    2. Pooley
    3. stevens
    4. Bronzini
    5. Johannsen

  4. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Emma Johansson
    3. Emma Pooley
    4. Georgia Bronzini
    5. Evelyn Stevens

  5. As a side note, thanks to the Keepers for gender equity and giving me something else to research in foreign languages I can’t speak to read the tea leaves of women’s cycling. I’m loving learning the whole cast of characters just like I loved learning names like LeMond, Hinault, Miller, and Jean Francois Bernard when I was but a young pup.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Valentina Carretta
    4. Mara Abbott
    5. Ina Teutenberg

  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. M Voss
    2. G Bronzini
    3. E Stevens
    4. E Van Dijk
    5. A Van Der Breggen

  7. Fine-tuning…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Ashleigh Moolman
    4. Marijn de Vries
    5. Tatiana Antoshina

  8. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Tatiana Antoshina
    3. Georgia Bronzini
    4. Arude Biannic
    5. Ashleigh Moolman

  9. #gobriego

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Mara Abbott
    3. Evelyn Stevens
    4. Emma Pooley
    5. Tatiana Antoshina

  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Mara Abbott
    3. Evelyn Stevens
    4. Tiffany Cromwell
    5. Claudia Hausler

  11. Yup, cannot find Longo Borhghini on the start list.  Swapping her out.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Giorgio Bronzini
    3. Evelyn Stevens
    4. E Van Dijk
    5. Emma Johansson

  12. @Erik

    As a side note, thanks to the Keepers for gender equity and giving me something else to research in foreign languages I can’t speak to read the tea leaves of women’s cycling. I’m loving learning the whole cast of characters just like I loved learning names like LeMond, Hinault, Miller, and Jean Francois Bernard when I was but a young pup.

    +1!

  13. Honestly, I have no idea but some of the names on the start list are making me weak at the knees. Love it.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Shara Gillow
    2. Emma Trott
    3. Marijan Vos
    4. Bronzini
    5. Borghini

  14. I love the way Vos races, love he way she races everything.  Could be no better champion.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johannson
    3. Bronzini
    4. Borghini
    5. Villumsen

  15. @Simon

    I love the way Vos races, love he way she races everything. Could be no better champion.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johannson
    3. Bronzini
    4. Borghini
    5. Villumsen

    You love it even more when you find out that Johansson is not racing….

  16. I have put Wiggo in four all five positions because apparently he “descends like a girl”. Vos would wipe the floor with him downhill base on the Giro….

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Wiggins
    2. Wiggins
    3. Wiggins
    4. Wiggins
    5. Wiggins

  17. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Tatiana Guderzo
    4. Emily Collins
    5. Georgia Bronzini

  18. Go cloggies…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Giorgia Bronzini
    3. Ellen van Dijk
    4. Evelyn Stevens
    5. Loes Gunnewijk

  19. Just the fact that there is an expanded Women’s VSP this year  is proof that the Velominati care about growing the sport of Women’s Cycling. And to suggest otherwise you might get a talking to by Frank himself.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Like a Vos
    2. G. Bronzini
    3. E. Stevens
    4. S. Olds
    5. E. Trott

  20. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Giorgia Bronzini
    4. Marijn De Vries
    5. Mara Abbott

  21. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Ellen Van Dijk
    4. Marijn De Vries
    5. Giorgia Bronzini

  22. VSP PICKS:

    1. vos
    2. stevens
    3. moolman
    4. luperini
    5. De Vries

  23. No Emma J.  Replacing with Mara Abbot.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. vos
    2. stevens
    3. abbot
    4. pooley
    5. arndt

  24. This race should be fun to watch, I’m almost more interested in this than the first week of that other big race that starts the day before…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Claudia Hausler
    4. Mara Abbot
    5. Alena Amialiusk

  25. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Bronzini
    3. E Stevens
    4. Borghini
    5. E Van Dijk

  26. As a heads up, Borghini has a fractured hip…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. E Stevens
    3. Bronzini
    4. E Fahlin
    5. A Visser

  27. @Deakus

    @Deakus

    @Simon

    I love the way Vos races, love he way she races everything. Could be no better champion.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johannson
    3. Bronzini
    4. Borghini
    5. Villumsen

    You love it even more when you find out that Johansson is not racing….

    Oops.  I was going with my default choices from the spring classics.  Johansson also on my mind cos the 2008 women’s olympic road race was the article of the day on wikipedia the other day…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Bronzini
    3. Borghini
    4. Stevens
    5. Villumsen

  28. VSP PICKS:

    1. E Stevens
    2. G Bronzini
    3. M Vos
    4. Borghini
    5. E Van Dijk

  29. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Evelyn Stevens
    3. Ellen Van Dijk
    4. Marijn De Vries
    5. Giorgia

  30. Still pumped that I got to see Marianne Vos race in Louisville. I missed The Prophet but I think she’s the second coming.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Bronzini
    3. Stevens
    4. De Vries
    5. van Dijk

  31. here’s to hopefully good guesses

    VSP PICKS:

    1. M VOS
    2. E STEVENS
    3. M DE VRIES
    4. T CROMWELL
    5. E KRUCHINSKAYA

  32. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Ellen Van Dijk
    3. Loes Gunnewijk
    4. Giorgia Bronzini
    5. Mara Abbott

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