Who to support in the Giro Donne...
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 29, 2010 4:54 PM EDT
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I'm assuming you already know who you're supporting for the Tour de France, but have you worked out who are your riders for the other Biggest Tour of the year, the Giro Donne? Monty has a great run-down of some of the top favourites, but in case you need more riders to root for, here's my handy guide (inspired by all the "who should I vote for?" diagrams in the run-up to the UK General Election)
Yeah, yeah, I know I've missed out most of Cervélo and HTC, but those teams are just too good! Plus, not all of these riders will be at the GD, but I made it before there was a startlist
But just because it's you, if this doesn't help you decide who to root for, if you tell me the kind of rider you like, I'll do my best to find you a rider to support - and I'll even add links, so you can find out more!
(I should say here that I am fully expecting the more knowledgeable folks to step in and help matchmake - pretty please? And there's at least one not-exactly-deliberate spelling mistake - if you spot it, your prize is the happy glow of self satisfaction...)
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the picture's hard to read
can you provide a link to it?
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
It is, sadly, tiny
Is this any better for you?
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 29, 2010 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
that is better, thanks
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
Dear lovely Gav or Monty
If you could make my picture bigger, I’ll be vey grateful indeed!
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 29, 2010 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Gav usually has to pretty up my posts too
so I think you’re stuck with it like this until the surf drops. One thing – I had a quick peek and there are lots of strange tags in there that usually come when you copy and paste straight from Word. Luckily it hasn’t done the strange formatting things that it seems to do to everyone else who works that way, but if it ever goes really funny, just try copying from Word to notepad then from notepad to here. Or whatever the Mac equivalent of that is.
i think also in word you can “save as” a text document which should also get rid of all the formatting junk
I know people
who even use Word to send photos via email… I hate word processors, have done so since WP 4.2.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
it's true if you're going to save it as a text doc
you can just use a text editor to start with – but since they had mentioned doing it in word then opening it with notepad, well, i thought i’d try to save a step
It's not opening it in Notepad I was talking about
Word sticks in funny code just when you copy and paste from it. I was suggesting copying the Word text, pasting that into Notepad (which dumps all the funnies), then copying what shows in Notepad and pasting it into the SBNation page for creating a story.
I can see that you found a way to get in Annemiek
Even though it’s a stretch to get there ;)
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
I did it for the Dutch!
I would have added Sharon Laws too if that hadn’t made it (even more) Brit-heavy! (Although looking at it, there’s probably room for Marianne a few more times…)
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 29, 2010 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
This is awesome!
Particularly the lower right corner.
"Good thing I never said out loud that I was pulling for France, before this all started." -Mark Blacknell
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 29, 2010 6:20 PM EDT reply actions
Picture fix
I made it so that when you click on the picture you get the much larger version.
"Good thing I never said out loud that I was pulling for France, before this all started." -Mark Blacknell
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 29, 2010 6:29 PM EDT reply actions
This is excellent
bravo
Los Geht's Deutschland!!!!
Down with Argentina!!!!
Quitter's People United member # 42
Yay for charts!
This is awesome thanks. And I am now supporting Emma Johansson, although the PhD in geotechnical engineering (which I didn’t know about before) made me wish I got Emma Pooley.
Love that there are so many different ways to end up with Vos!
I would have added more
only there wasn’t enough space on the page. If I can ever work out how to do it, I’ll make a interactive on-line version, with oxes to click, & pics and links to websites…. and 1 in 3 choices would lead to Marianne!
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 30, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Nah, just get a bigger sheet of paper
Forget the online point-click malarky, it is much better this way. I love the visual aspect as well as the doing.
Navigating it is like a maze puzzle but it’s more fun because you can start again or just go back a couple of steps and do it a couple of dozen times, and you end up somewhere different each time. And it’s better (and funnier) than the one the comic created for the Tour.
+ a gazillion
this is the kind of the thing to get me into women’s cycling (besides the photos) – ok so i have the brain of a 5 year old …
beautiful beautiful job
If there's anything else to help you in
Just shout! I’m learnt everything I know about the road side of women’s cycling in the last year, and am in “very happy to share” mode!
by Sarah Connolly on Jul 1, 2010 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Too funny!
I am all for pictures of Liz Hatch in cycling shorts.
And they don’t have to be pink!
Racing for Victory and Free Beer!
I thought Kristen Armstrong was retired...
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist had a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Jun 29, 2010 11:57 PM EDT reply actions
Ps retired or not that was a bunch of fun.
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist had a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Jun 29, 2010 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions
She is retired from racing but not from cycling.
She is the DS of Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY12 and is a key reason why their team is having great success this year.
I believe she is due in September and she is having a boy.
I was aware she was running the successful young ladies at PB&Co.
Retired from racing part is where I was headed…. Makes it hard to win a race in Italy, although 7 months along, it would be one hell of an achievement.
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist had a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Jun 30, 2010 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions
She is and she is preggers too...so I don't doctors would like her to be Giro-ing in her state
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Jun 30, 2010 7:49 AM EDT up reply actions
She is, indeed, retired
But I couldn’t resist that joke. If I ever get around to writing the article on “How to use the women to win every cycling argument online (& be really annoying)”, she’ll have centre stage!
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 30, 2010 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions
mitskate
errrm, peloton doesn’t have an accent on the ‘e’?
Also, does anyone know what’s happened to Christiane Soeder this year? Is she ‘in the family way’?
dunno about 'in the family way'
but at the end of May she gave the yes-word to her long-time companion (although someone should tell her that it’s OK to have a boyfriend, even when you’re thirty-five-and-a-half years old. “langjähriger Freund” sounds like it should be reserved for eighty year old, long closeted (although no-one ever thought they weren’t) gays.
Thanks Monty
was wondering what has become of her – why she’s dropped off the Cervelo roster? Talented rider like that should be up in the top flight, eh?
The number of reasonably paying jobs in the peloton
has halved (by my estimate) each of the last two winters. I couldn’t work out which of the couple was the cardiologist in that piece on her webpage (they both call themselves Dr), but then again I got lost trying to close all the brackets I’d opened, so I’m no reliable guide. Perhaps she just decided it was time to move on.
raced the Austrian nationals at the weekend
DNF, though
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
Eneritz Iturriagaextebarria Mazaga FTW!
Seriously, this is awesome :-)
"A mountain is not an obstacle, it is an opportunity" - Robert Millar
I will never, at any stage in my life, get bored of writing
Eneritz Iturriagaetxebarria Mazaga. She is my Amets Turruka of the women’s peloton. In fact, in my ideal world, Eneritz and Amets would get married and have little baby Txurruka Iturriagaetxebarrias, who would go on to ride for Euskaltel and the imaginery Euskaltel Emakumeen, which will be created as soon as the UCI insist all pro-teams run a women’s team too… sigh…
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 30, 2010 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Aiiie! I mispelled Txurruka!!!!
The aatxe will come and get me!
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 30, 2010 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions
That is a truly splendid idea! Can Cupid please get to work forthwith?
Now what would the first names be? Txomin? Bixenta? Itxaro? Kontxesi? (incidentally, just spotted that Benat means ‘courage of a bear’…bahaha)
"A mountain is not an obstacle, it is an opportunity" - Robert Millar
Ametxa works for me.....
But Itxaro Txurruka Iturriagaetxaberria is pretty beautiful…
by Sarah Connolly on Jun 30, 2010 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
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