Velominati Super Prestige: La Fléche Wallone Féminine 2013

photo: Bettini
photo: Bettini

Last year we saw Evelyn Stevens out-last Marianne Vos at the top of the Mur de Huy. The take home message is don’t start one’s charge too early. Vos should know this finish, having won it four times already. It’s hard to know who is on form in the professional women field as the races are too far apart to infer much from the last race. This is their whole Ardennes campaign; one race, no holds barred, save nothing. Who is a badass? Is Marianne tuned up?  Is she still hungry enough? Are there some more young guns looking to make a name for themselves? Ponder all this carefully. The race is Wednesday. PROFIL To contest one has to first be there in the top ten at the bottom of the Huy. A good team is required to chase down the troublesome breaks and help shape the final kilometers. To win one has to have the best power to weight ratio and the sense to use it at exactly the right time. Experience with this race shows. People who have botched the finish have returned to win. Timing is almost everything, superlative power climbing ability is the rest. The start list is here.

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139 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: La Fléche Wallone Féminine 2013”

  1. The reversion to the mean starts here…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos Boss
    2. “Dick” van Dijk
    3. Emma Johansssssssson
    4. Longo Borghini
    5. van Vleuten

  2. Same picks as last time.  Worked well then, hopefully will again!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. vos
    2. van dijk
    3. emma johansson
    4. Longo Bofghini
    5. Stevens

  3. I’m not Delagado’ing again !!!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johannson
    3. Van Dijk
    4. Stevens
    5. Borghini

  4. Feck !!!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johannson
    3. Van Dijk
    4. Borghini
    5. De Vries

  5. VSP PICKS:

    1. VOS Marianne
    2. JOHANSSON Emma
    3. FAHLIN Emilia
    4. ARMITSTEAD Elisabeth
    5. TROTT Laura

  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. Johannson
    2. Vos
    3. Armistead
    4. Longo Borghini
    5. Kupfernagel

  7. @sthilzy

    Evelyn Stevens is out due to injury?

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/stevens-making-quick-recovery-from-crash

    Although it doesn’t appear that Stevens will be able to defend her 2012 win at Flèche Wallonne on April 17, Scrymgeour said that because Stevens did not incur a concussion in the crash, she could be back for Gracia Orlova at the end of April.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Villums
    3. Johansson
    4. Longo Borghini
    5. Van Dijk

    Thanx for that research.

  8. @sthilzy

    Evelyn Stevens is out due to injury?

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/stevens-making-quick-recovery-from-crash

    Although it doesn’t appear that Stevens will be able to defend her 2012 win at Flèche Wallonne on April 17, Scrymgeour said that because Stevens did not incur a concussion in the crash, she could be back for Gracia Orlova at the end of April.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Villums
    3. Johansson
    4. Longo Borghini
    5. Van Dijk

    Thanks!  Going with De Vries then.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. vos
    2. van dijk
    3. emma johansson
    4. Longo Bofghini
    5. De vries

  9. VSP PICKS:

    1. vos
    2. van dijk
    3. emma johansson
    4. Longo Borghini
    5. De Vries

  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. VOS
    2. JOHANSSON
    3. VAN DIJK
    4. LONGO BORGHINI
    5. STEVENS

  11. VSP PICKS:

    1. VOS
    2. JOHANSSON
    3. VAN DIJK
    4. LONGO BORGHINI
    5. VAN VLEUTEN

  12. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johannsson
    3. Van Vleuten
    4. Van Dijk
    5. Longo Borghini

  13. VSP PICKS:

    1. Ellen Van Dijk
    2. Emma Johansson
    3. Marian De Vries
    4. Marianne Vos
    5. Elizabeth Armitstead

  14. THANK YOU PROCYCLING STATS

    VSP PICKS:

    1. VOS
    2. JOHANNSON
    3. VAN VLEUTEN
    4. VAN DIJK
    5. LONGO BORGHINI

  15. VSP PICKS:

    1. Marianne Vos
    2. Elizabeth Armitstead
    3. Emma Johansson
    4. Longo Borghini
    5. Ellen Van Dijk

  16. So, Delgato’d Amstel, frickin taxes, hoping to make up some points here. Wish there was better coverage of the dammes…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. VanDijk
    3. Wild
    4. Pieters
    5. Borgato

  17. Here’s to my worst VSP so far! May it improve now.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johansson
    3. Borghini
    4. Armistead
    5. Lucinda Brand

  18. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johansson
    3. van Dijk
    4. Bronzini
    5. Longo Borghini

  19. Out of my depth here – stuck with those showing plenty of “V’

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Van Dijk
    3. Stevens
    4. Van Vleuten
    5. Van der bruggen

  20. Because, really, I do not know, at all. And even if I knew their current form, they’re women. Maybe they’re pms’ing, bloated, ovulating. Perhaps they’re too lean to menstruate. On the other hand, maybe they’re all on birth control. My research ‘there’ suggests hormonal birth control has a small, deleterious affect on oxygen utilization, so I’d guess they aren’t.

    Yeah. No idea.

    Go Vos!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Borghini
    3. Johansson
    4. Van Vleuten
    5. Van Dijk

  21. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vos
    2. Johansson
    3. VAN DIJK Ellen
    4. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
    5. BRAND Lucinda

  22. VSP PICKS:

    1. vos
    2. van dijk
    3. johansson
    4. cantele
    5. longo borghini

  23. VSP PICKS:

    1. Emma Johansson
    2. Marianne Vos
    3. Van Dijk
    4. Armistead
    5. Kristen McGrath

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