Tour of Flanders Women LIVE – The race is alive with attacks but no breakaway yet

Off the primary cobbles

We’ve got two teams off the entrance.Iurani Blanco (Human Powered Well being)Ilken Seynave (Lotto-Intermarché)Caroline Wrezin (St Michel-Desire Dwelling-Auber93)Yonna van Dam (Citymech-Customm)lead the buch by 10 seconds whereas Anastasiya Kolesava (Canyon-SRAM-zondacrypto)Teuntje Beekhuis (UNO-X Mobility)Alison Mrugal (Mayenne-Monbana-My Pie)Sophie von Berswordt (VolkerWessels)

are in-between the 2. That is nowhere close to a achieved deal!

There is a confused image from the race for the time being, although we’re positive 4 girls lead with a small hole.

30km raced

Our main group is comprised of:Anastasiya Kolesava (Canyon-SRAM-zondacrypto)Teuntje Beekhuis (UNO-X Mobility)Alison Mrugal (Mayenne-Monbana-My Pie)Sophie von Berswordt (VolkerWessels)

solely have the slimmest of gaps and the cobbles start quickly, can they construct their lead or will they be caught within the battle for place?

We have had just a few strikes off the entrance however solely now has something caught, we’ve got 4 girls with a small hole.

20km raced!

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is likely one of the superstars of cycle sport, with world titles throughout the disciplines.

She was second on the Tour of Flanders final yr and she or he is aware of she and her Visma-Lease a Bike group can win at present.

The primary of six cobbled sectors is the Lange Munte which comes after 29.3km. There are 9 climbs too, the Wolvenberg, which opens the climbing after 82km, is one among solely two bergs which is on tarmac, making the remaining seven very difficult certainly.

Regardless of loads of attacking on the entrance of the race, the peloton continues to be collectively.

154km left to race

Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) has proved herself over and once more as not solely the very best sprinter however one of many world’s greatest riders.

Even when she doesn’t win at present she will be able to nonetheless have an affect on the race, she thinks so, saying „I can provide others some stress.“

The battle is already on for the breakaway!

As for the climate, it is fairly heat, with highs of 12ºC some gentle rain and excessive winds as much as nearly 30k/mh. That’ll be a tailwind on the ultimate few kilometres, excellent for a breakaway.

The race is on!

164.1km to go!

One lady who might have a significant affect on at present’s race is Franziska Koch, the German champion who moved to FDJ United-SUEZ this yr to help Demi Vollering.

Is Franziska Koch the very best signing of the yr?

Whereas the primary version of the race in 2004, received by Zulfiya Zabirova, lined solely 94km, this yr we’ve received 164.1km, with loads of cobbles and bergs on the menu.

Right here we go! We’re rolling for two.9km of impartial, driving out by Bevere earlier than we lastly get racing!

Kopecky may be the the file winner, however when she took her first title again in 2022 she was solely the second Belgian to win the nation’s most iconic race, with Grace Verbeke taking the honours method again in 2010.

Double winners embody Mirjam Melchers, Judith Arndt, Annemiek van Vleuten and Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Staff ADQ), however just one lady has received three editions: Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime).

Tour of Flanders Ladies: Lotte Kopecky makes historical past with file third victory.

The Tour of Flanders is likely one of the most coveted races every season and a number of the largest names of the game have received over time. Nicole Cooke, Ina Yoko Teutenberg, Marianne Vos, Coryn Labecki, Lizzie Deignan and Ellen van Dijk all grace the race palmarès.

Although Milan Sanremo was the primary of the lads’s Monuments to host a girls’s race, method again in 1999, that solely ran till 2005, by which era De Ronde girls’s race was in its second version.Whereas Sanremo disappeared for 20 years, Flanders has run regularly since its inception, making it the longest working of all girls’s Monuments.

That is the twenty third version.

Our most up-to-date winner in these spring Classics was Movistar’s Marlen Reusser, the Swiss rider profitable an enthralling version of Dwars Door Vlaanderen.How did she do it? Our report is right here.

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) is just one of greater than 130 girls on the beginning line at present and although she’s in flying kind with wins at Nokere Koerse and Milan-Sanremo, there are many others hoping for fulfillment.Our preview is right here.

We’re in what has change into the race’s non secular house of Oudenaarde for the beginning this yr. We roll out for two.9km of impartial at 13:25 (native time) earlier than the winner crosses the road again in Oudenaarde after 164.1km of what’s positive to be frantic racing.

Good afternoon and welcome to our reside protection of this yr’s Tour of Flanders Ladies Elite. At all times some of the exiting, fascinating, entertaining and keenly anticipated races of the season!